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60: To Kill Again - The Snowden Murders at Horseshoe Lake (Travis Santay Lewis)

Murderous Minors

Murderous Minors

True Crime

41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On March 25, 2020, Travis Santay Lewis murdered 63-year-old heiress Martha McKay, after spending almost 24 years in prison for killing her mother, 75-year-old Sally and 52-year-old cousin Lee Baker, in 1996.

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0:00.0

Just so you know, this show is about scary stuff. So don't say I didn't warn you guys.

0:16.0

And I remember, don't be scared. Oh, The Oh, Episode 60 to kill again.

1:05.0

War baby here with another episode of murderous miners.

1:10.0

The recent and past murders of members of prominent The True. March 25, 2020 brought a tragic final chapter to the life of Martha McKay and ended the life

1:28.8

of a vicious killer, Travis Santay Lewis at the famed Snowden house in Hughes, Arkansas.

1:35.0

This story doesn't start on that date, however, and doesn't even start back in 1996,

1:41.0

when Martha's mother and cousin were murdered on the grounds of the same property.

1:46.3

75-year-old Sally McKay, born Sarah Day Snowden, and her 52-year-old nephew, well-known blues guitarist Joseph Lee Baker Jr.

1:55.1

were murdered on the grounds of what was once called Horseshoe Plantation,

1:58.8

where the Snowden house sits on Horseshoe Lake. The Snowden family's presence on Horseshoe Lake dates back a century to

2:06.2

when Robert Bogartish Snowden Jr. of Memphis, Tennessee, and his wife Grace Mountcastle of Knoxville married and settled down here after World War I.

2:16.4

Bob and Grace had met in 1916 on a hay ride and their love seemed instant.

2:22.4

After college he enlisted in was a pilot during the war while Grace volunteered as a nurse.

2:28.8

He had studied agriculture in college, so it seemed natural that he would want a big plot on which to start their family.

2:36.6

His father had been Robert Brinkley Snowden, the accomplished Memphis Real Estate Baron who built Ashler Hall, a Victorian-era inspired mansion which resembles a castle.

2:48.0

Built in 1896, the property remained in Snowden family hands until his wife died in 1957.

2:56.3

It since passed through the hands of several owners and underwent a lengthy restoration in

3:01.2

2019, now serving as an event space.

3:05.0

Our Brinkley Snowden's father, Robert Bogartis Snowden,

3:10.0

was known as the Colonel following his Civil War service under Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.

3:16.4

He was the very first Snowden to come to Memphis.

3:19.9

His mother was Annie Overton Brinkley, and she and the Colonel raised their family at the

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