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Welcome everyone to the Most Notorious Podcast, I'm Eric Rivenes.

My guest today is Karen L. Cox, a historian and author who specializes in the American South.

She's here today to talk about her book, Goat Castle, a true story of murder, race, and the Gothic South.

I really appreciate your time today, thank you.

Yeah, I'm glad to be with you.

This is quite a story and not one that I'm guessing most of my listeners know about.

Where did you come across this murder and how did you come to write a book about it?

I was in the working in the State Archives in Mississippi doing research on a topic related to matches Mississippi.

I was trying to understand what drew people to the town in 1932.

One of the things that did draw people to the town was their pilgrimage of homes.

They have a great grouping of Annabelle mansions there in matches.

While I was working on that, the historian who had been working there forever and he told me,

he said, you need to look at Goat Castle.

The Goat Castle put matches on the map and how could I resist the two words, Goat Castle together?

I did a little research that day, years before I started the book and I just knew instinctively that it was a story that I wanted to pursue.

What I had assumed about the story, what many generations of people had assumed about it, turned out to be far different from the book I wrote.

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