Ep. 1: A Body on the Tracks

Before sunrise on Feb. 10, 1932, a freight train ran over a man on the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad tracks near downtown Hattiesburg, Mississippi. When authorities learned the man’s identity, residents all over Mississippi were shocked. A subsequent investigation led to three murder trials that involved some of the state’s most powerful attorneys, the Attorney General and the state Supreme Court. To this day, the case remains a mystery.

CREDITS

“Mississippi Blues,” theme music, by Yurii Kushch from Pixabay.

Multiple sound effects from Pixabay, including second train sound effect by Sandro Lima; third train sound effect by Alexander Jauk; and phone ringing sound effect by 👀 Mabel Amber, who will one day.

The snippet of the 2007 interview with Hattiesburg resident Sarah Gillespie comes courtesy of an oral history housed at the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi.