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The Woolfolk Family Massacre
Episode 19

The Woolfolk Family Massacre

Southern Gothic · Southern Gothic Media

December 3, 201822m 37s

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Show Notes

On August 6, 1887 one of Georgia’s darkest and most infamous murders occurred at a farmhouse in Bibb County. Nine members of Richard Woolfolk’s family were brutally slain with an axe. Suspicion immediately fell on his son Thomas and a national media circus erupted in the aftermath.

This episode of Southern Gothic contains descriptions of a violent and horrific murder, listener discretion is advised.

Additional narration by Katelyn Murray and Kenneth Strader of The Haunted Heart podcast. 

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