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Hello and welcome to another episode of Affirmative Murder. I am Alvin Williams.

Unfortunately, I am not joined by my partner in true crime.

So Evans this week, he is having a family emergency.

And although his life is his life, and what he chooses to share with you guys is his business.

I'm asking you to please send 11 light to my brother, Fran, and he'll be back when he's back.

So this episode is going to be a little different.

I will be sharing with you the dark and very interesting history of Lake Lanier.

I hope you guys enjoy. I know we've said it before, but because of this podcast,

because of all of our awesome listeners, we could do some really fun and incredible things.

So the show must go on. I wanted to give you guys something, but one more time,

send some loving light, Fran's way, and that's all I got. Thank you guys.

Lake Lanier is a man-made reservoir that was created in the 1950s to provide water,

hydroelectricity, and recreational opportunities to the residents of Sugar Hill,

Gwyneth County, and the rest of metropolitan Atlanta. Just a few decades prior, however,

the land surrounding what would become Lake Lanier looked very different.

You see up until 1912, about 1100 black people owned land and operated businesses in Forsyth County.

That fall on September 9th, an 18-year-old white woman named Mae Crowe was raped and murdered

close to Brown's bridge on the banks of the Chattahoochi River in a village called Oscarville.

The crimes were penned on four young black people who happened to live nearby.

They were 16-year-old Ernest Knox, his 18-year-old cousin Oscar Daniel,

22-year-old Trussi, Jane Daniel, Oscar's sister, and 24-year-old Robert Big Rob Edwards.

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