From the Stacks - Carolina Crimes Podcast

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Join the South Carolina State Library and the SC Center for the Book on October 24th at 6:30 PM for our next From the Stacks Series featuring Danielle and Matt from the Carolina Crimes Podcast as they discuss the Edgefield Black Widow, Lavinia Fisher, and more.

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The event begins at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 24th, at the South Carolina State Library Learning Lab, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29201. Enter between the two lions.

Registration is required for the event.

On-street parking is available.

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Carolina Crimes Reading List

Carolina Crimes Podcast hosts, Danielle and Matt will discuss infamous SC crimes on Tuesday, October 24th, at 6:30 PM at the South Carolina State Library. Registration is requested. Carolina Crimes Podcast is “The only True Crime Podcast solely highlighting crimes committed in South Carolina.” Catch up on the cases to be discussed with the reading list below and join us on the 24th for this Speaker at the Center From the Stacks Series.

Devil in Petticoats, or, God's Revenge Against Husband Killing : A Tale of Eighteenth Century Edgefield

Nancy Crockett

Based on the 2d. ed. of The bad wife's looking glass, or, God's revenge against cruelty to husbands by M. L. Weems, printed in 1823.

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Six Miles to Charleston: The True Story of John and Lavinia Fisher

Bruce Orr

Introduction: Lost in legend -- The time: 1819 -- The victims: two corpses and a cow -- The gang: the forgotten members -- The trial: colonial justice is not criminal justice -- The escape: a last bid for freedom -- The sentencing: colonial justice equals colonial corruption -- The execution: in the words of those who witnessed it -- The method: death by hanging : colonial justice versus criminal justice -- The allegations: colonial justice versus criminal justice -- Power and greed: politics at its best -- Land swindling: the keys may be key -- Motive: the sins of the father -- Conclusion: Things are not always as they appear.

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Eerie South Carolina: True Chilling Stories from the Palmetto Past

Sherman Carmichael

Master storyteller Sherman Carmichael is back with more mysterious tales from South Carolina; from Plantersville to Loris and from Beaufort to Clinton. Many of these stories have been told and retold throughout generations, like the red-eyed specter that roams the stairwells of Wilson Hall at Converse College or the haunted grave site of Agnes of Glasgow in Camden. In 1987, a construction company unearthed the bodies of fourteen Union soldiers from the Civil War; twelve of the bodies were found without their heads. The Abbeville Opera House has a chair that remains open to this day for a patron who visited long ago. Join Carmichael for these and many more rare and offbeat stories from South Carolina.

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Cursed in the Carolinas: Stories of the Damned

Patty A. Watson

In Cursed in the Carolinas, Patty A. Wilson recounts tales of genuine maledictions intended to invoke evil and unease across both North and South Carolina. The pages will bring to life these stories, letting you decide whether the resulting tragedies were simply bad luck, coincidences…or something far more sinister.

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Cover of Storied & Scandalous Charleston

Storied & Scandalous Charleston: A History of Piracy and Prohibition, Rebellion and Revolution

Leigh Jones Handal

In Storied & Scandalous Charleston, storyteller Leigh Jones Handal weaves tales of piracy, rebellion, ancient codes of honor, and first-hand accounts of the madness that ensued as the city fell first to the British in 1780 and then to the Union in 1865. Meet some of the foremost female criminals of the day-lady pirate Anne Bonny and highwaywoman Livinia Fisher. And learn how centuries of war, natural disasters, bankruptcy, and chaos shaped modern Charleston and the Carolina Low Country.

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Murder in the Carolinas

Nancy Rhyne

From the 1820s to the 1980s, these are true stories of actual murders in the Carolinas.

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More Murder in the Carolinas

Nancy Rhyne

More true stories of actual murders in the Carolinas.

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Vengeance at Meeting Street: The Shocking Story of Sue Logue, the First Woman to Die in South Carolina's Electric Chair, her Lover Senator Strom Thurmond and the Bloody Logue-Timmerman Feud

Anna Flowers

Vengeance at Meeting Street reexamines this precedent setting true crime South Carolina multiple murder case involving the Logues and the Timmermans. A rewrite and update of Wanton Woman, this book is largely written from Sue Logues' point of view. Vengeance at Meeting Street has an expanded interior layout that features stronger coverage of the trials plus many additional rare photographs, some of which are shown on the bold new jacket cover design.

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Wanton Woman: Sue Logue, Strom Thurmond, and the Bloody Logue-Timmerman Feud

Anna Flowers

This is the story of Sue Logue, one of the late Senator Strom Thurmond's early lovers, and the first woman to be executed in South Carolina's electric chair. The case received wide coverage in the Southern press in the 1940s, owing, perhaps, to its salacious aspect.

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