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One morning in May 1866, just before daybreak Laura Foster quietly left her home with a bundle of clothes and her father's horse. She was going to rendezvous with her beau, Tom Dooley. Rumor had it they were going to run off and get married. However, Tom did not run off and Laura never returned home. When her body was found in a shallow grave, someone was bound to hang for her murder.
Intro Narrator: Curtis Hildreth
Intro song: Isaiah Hildreth
"Tom Dooley" murder ballad - performed by Luke Abbott
Sources:
Pickens, Cathy, True Crime Stories of Western North Carolina
West, John Foster, Lift Up Your Head, Tom Dooley
https://web.archive.org/web/20031208114158/http://www.wilkesnc.org/history/tomdula/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5915/laura-foster
www.hardtimesandtruecrimes.com
