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Thread #23981   Message #1528598
Posted By: GUEST,Dave'swife
26-Jul-05 - 08:03 AM
Thread Name: History: Tom Dooley didn't kill Laura Foster?!?
Subject: RE: Tom Dooley didn't kill Laura Foster?!?
Ok. is there a reader's digest version of this some where?

Cliff Notes?

A reasonable book that lays it all out?

Cuz if there is, I'm about ready to spend good money on it just to sort out all these accusations.

I shouldn't read these threads. Last time O read a thread like this I wound up buying that book "Scalded To Death by Steam' just to figure out how the canaries got on the Wreck of the Old 97. Wait! Don't start that again.. I have the book and know the answer!

Hell, I believed up until 6 months ago that Bily Jo McCallister really did throw something off the Talahatchie Bridge just because some kook girl in Upstate New York tossed her baby down an embankment into a water filled ditch when I was a kid and everyone said she did it cuz she listened to 'Ode To Bille Joe'. You grow up with stuff like that and the belief gets inbedded in your mind. It took finding an interview with Bobby Gentry who confessed she had no freaking idea what they tossed off the bridge, that she made it all up, for me to give up the ghost on that one.

I is a gullible chile, yessir.