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The Ballad of Frankie Silver
One hundred years after a woman is hanged, the search for justice reveals a story of faith, obsession, and murder.In 1832, 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband.
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One hundred years after a woman is hanged, the search for justice reveals a story of faith, obsession, and murder.In 1832, 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband. In 1833, she became the first woman in the state of North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But was she guilty? More than 100 years later, Tennessee sheriff Spencer Arrowood is determined to reveal the truth behind this unanswered question. A spellbinding story that sweeps from the drawing rooms of early aristocracy to the ruins of a one-room cabin deep in the Appalachian wilderness, The Ballad of Frankie Silver flawlessly weaves past and present, truth and fiction, folklore and legend.
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