Ohio Mysteries · Evergreen Podcasts
Episode Rewind: 140 - Mob Mentality: Mercer County, 1872
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A courtroom erupts as Belle's brother leaps at an attorney and the crowd chants to lynch the murderers.
As heard by us
A grim Ohio lynching case, told with steady chronology and a disputed deathbed confession.
Ohio Mysteries treats this Ohio lynching case as a study in mob behavior and the way violence can dress itself up as justice. It follows the jail break, the wagon ride, and the long march to the intended hanging site with a local-history eye, so the story stays tied to place and…
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An Ohio mob-mentality story built around a deathbed confession and a stubborn question of who was really guilty.
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