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Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley is a native Tennessean exploring historical and contemporary true crime in the South. S

Episodes

Total: 256

55: The UpStairs Lounge Fire

2019/6/6

In 1973, a horrific fire killed 32 people in the gay bar, the Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans. When c

Barbara Ford Stager is known as the Black Widow of North Carolina. She shot two husbands, ten years

In 1999, a seventeen year old girl named Jessica Dishon was abducted out of her driveway in Shepherd

In 1948, a Delta Mississippi socialite named Ruth Thompson Dickins, hacked her mother to death with

In August of 2008, the small town of Springfield, Georgia was shaken by a double murder in one of th

In June of 2013, a 21 year old Vanderbilt student was gang raped in a dorm room by four football pla

In June of 1985, residents of the Midland area of South Carolina were frozen in fear. Two girls were

In June of 1985, residents of the Midland area of South Carolina were frozen in fear. Two girls were

In December of 2004, a beautiful young graduate student was brutally stabbed in her apartment. Her r

My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayerCan serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder?These word

On New Year’s day of 2012, 38 year old Shelby Wilkie went missing. She left behind her three month o

From 1994 to 2008, a serial predator terrorized the Greater Nashville area. The Wooded Rapist moved

In 2003, a domestic violence case ended in a hostage stand-off at a Bi-Lo grocery store in Greenvill

In the year 2000, Tracy Fortson was the first female deputy at the Oglethorpe County Sheriff’s Depar

Just before Christmas of 1985, a Corpus Christi couple was brutally slain with a hatchet and knife a

Known as the “Bitter Blood Murders,” in 1985, first cousins and lovers, Susie Newsom Lynch and Fritz

In a tiny town in Tennessee, a young couple are brutally shot, execution style in their home. Their

In 1999, a dedicated rookie police officer on the luxury island of Bald Head, North Carolina, is sho

A young mother goes on a personal journey and leaves her deadbeat husband. He couldn’t let that happ

Cyntoia Brown was granted clemency by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam today. To hear Cyntoia's story,