There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section of...

We have a weird...

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

A cop of murder.

A quick trial that resulted in a mob left a man named Petrie Kimbrough with an execution date of March 11th, 1920.

But in a time of racism and fear,

was this man brought to justice too quickly?

So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled,

sit back and search your day with a morning cup of murder.

Petrie Kimborough was born in 1896.

He was known more frequently by his murderous alias, Will Lockett, and was accused as early as 1905

of strangling a woman in rural Todd County, Kentucky before fleeing the state.

He laid low for a few years before sometime in either 1912 or 1913, attacking another woman

near the train tracks crossing Louisville and Nashville.

In 1917, he raped and beat a woman on the streets of Evansville, Indiana, and left her for dead.

He did the same to a woman in Louisville, Kentucky, after enlisting in the army in 1919.

Basically, what I'm getting at is that this was a bad man who needed to be taken off the streets.

Then came his last and most famous victim, 10-year-old Geneva Hardman. Geneva lived in Lexington, Kentucky,

and on February 4, 1920, her school belongings were found abandoned near a cornfield with

Geneva nowhere to be seen. Assuming this was simply a lost school item, the farmer who found it

brought her items to the

nearby school. A teacher recognized the items and realizing she had not seen Geneva in school

...