Episode -11 The Murder of 17 year old Muriel Baldridge  in 1947

The Podcast starts with a brief musical ballad telling the story of a  tragic event from the Appalachian Mountains.  The Ballad written in 1949, the recording made in 1977.

The Ballad tell the story of the tragic Murder of Muriel Baldridge, the 17-year old high school cheerleader who was found beaten to death under a bridge the morning of June 28, 1949 in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. 

The Murder after a decades of investigation by local, state and federal investigators follows a strange path of confessions, retracted confessions and finally a sensational  trial with a controversial verdict. 

To this day the case remains unsolved and thought of as one  very confusing investigation and legal case in Eastern Kentucky  if not the South. 

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