Modern Abe Lincoln - Larry West

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In 2021, a fatal confrontation in Morgan County, Tennessee, left one man dead and another behind bars. But as the case wound through the legal system over the next four years, it became one of the strangest files in the state’s history. The reason? The defendant repeatedly and adamantly claimed in open court that he was the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.5	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.3	I want some down-home country crime. You got anything like that?
0:24.8	Oh, but make sure that the killer thinks he's like somebody famous and historic.
0:27.8	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:33.8	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:35.3	I am John here with Jamie.
0:36.7	How you doing, man?
0:39.0	Doing pretty good, man. We're no longer snowed in. It seems that spring is around the corner, but thankfully, that doesn't mean that we lose
0:46.8	crazy criminals. No, thank goodness. If you, you can probably hear the spring in my voice because
0:53.1	got up to 70 degrees this week.
0:56.1	And it just, I guess my sinuses thought, oh, let's go into overdrive.
1:00.8	You're kind of in that sweet spot, though.
1:02.2	You sound really good right now.
1:03.7	Yeah.
1:04.1	I'm hoping this continues because we got a double header in a couple of days.
1:07.7	We too.
1:08.3	So let's not waste our voice anymore.
1:10.9	Get us rolling on today's case.
1:12.5	Brother, we are going to one of my favorite places.
1:15.7	I say that tongue in cheek.
1:17.1	Morgan County, Tennessee.
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