The Earl Family Murders

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The Earl Family Murders were a series of murders that took place in 1902 in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, where six members of a farming family were killed. The discovery of the murders was devastating to the community. Was it a farmhand who seemed to have no motive for the murders that would be arrested and pay the ultimate price for the crime? Tune in and find out what sparked this event and who was responsible for the murder of six innocent family members.

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Sources:

Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead: The Hanging of Albert Edwin Batson by Jim Bradshaw and Danielle Miller. https://lccn.loc.gov/2014014213?loclr=blogflt

Richard H. Underwood’s article “The Other Batson Case,” which appeared in Legal Studies Forum, vol. 31 (2007), p. 765-800. https://lccn.loc.gov/85650536?loclr=blogflt

The Library’s Chronicling America collection. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/?loclr=blogflt

Find A Grave:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215529954/lemuel-shelton-earl

Horrible & Gruesome Tragedy Near Welsh. Crowley Signal March 1, 1902. Acadia Parish. http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/acadia/newspapers/news35.txt

Batson Hanged. The Shreveport Times. 15 August 1903.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/220884256/?terms=batson&match=1

Batson Murder Trial Talk of Parish in 1902. The Lafayette Daily Advertiser. 28 October 1997. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/539050282/

Oh, Mama”: A Mother’s Love and the Murder Ballad “Batson. Library of Congress. 14 June 2017.

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