The Woolfolk Tragedy: The Murders, the Trials, the Hanging & Now Finally, the Truth!

Before sunrise on August 6 1887 a respected gentleman farmer Capt. Richard F Woolfolk was savagely murdered along with his wife their six children and his wifes 84 year old great aunt. At daybreak local authorities crippled by mass hysteria made an arrest. The state of Georgia abruptly awakened from its simmering post Civil War stupor and struggled to prove the one survivor of that tragic night Thomas G. Woolfold the Captains eldest son to be the lone axe murderer. Toms fate placed him in the turbulent epicenter of the Souths racial moral social political and ecomomic tempest. Unconvinced of Woolfolks guilt a single reporter was determined to search out the truth while a valiant attorney courageously fought the prejudiced system for the sake of justice. In the end they all went to their deaths carrying the burden of the Woolfolk tragedy on their shoulders.