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🗓️ 2 December 2024
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0:00.0 | When you think of outlaws of the 1920s, the names Al Capone, or Bonnie and Clyde, may immediately |
0:18.9 | come to mind. |
0:19.9 | A lesser-known outlaw, who landed on the FBI's most wanted fugitive list, was a former |
0:26.5 | circus star turned bootleggar from Virginia. |
0:31.2 | He killed at least five men, but always maintained he only killed in self-defense. |
0:38.9 | Folk songs were written about him and he gained legendary status by escaping jail several times, |
0:45.5 | even escaping the electric chair in Tennessee. |
0:49.9 | Welcome to Southern Mysteries, exploring Southern history and true crime. I'm your host, Shannon Ballard. |
0:57.7 | This is the story of the Appalachian Outlaw, Kenny Wagner. William Kenneth Wagner, commonly known as |
1:07.0 | Kenny Wagner, was born in Scott County, Virginia in February 1903. |
1:12.9 | Kenny would later say the tragic death of his mother on Christmas Day 1909 broke him. |
1:20.0 | His mother was the most important person in his life, and suddenly she was gone. |
1:25.4 | By the following summer, Kenny's father remarried, bringing a stepmother |
1:29.4 | and her four children into the family with Kenny and his sister, all living in a one-room cabin. |
1:37.3 | Within a couple of years, two children were born of the marriage, and that little cabin felt smaller |
1:42.9 | with each passing day. Kenny claimed his stepmother often |
1:47.0 | reminded him and his sister, they weren't her children, making them do without clothes and shoes, |
1:54.4 | while her children got what they needed. Kenny took to spending most of his time outside |
2:00.5 | with the family's three dogs, |
2:02.7 | becoming his best friends. Kenny had a gift for training dogs to tree raccoons and hunt rabbits. |
2:10.6 | He enjoyed hunting, and from the time he got his first gun, when he was eight years old, |
2:15.5 | he practiced often and developed expert marksmanship skills. |
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