TY  - GEN
T1  - Goat Castle : a true story of murder, race, and the gothic South
A1  - Cox, Karen L., 1962-
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1001267632
AB  - In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery--known in the press as the "Wild Man" and the "Goat Woman"--Enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was shot and killed. The crime drew national coverage when it came to light that Dana and Dockery, the alleged murderers, shared their huge, decaying antebellum mansion with their goats and other livestock, which prompted journalists to call the estate "Goat Castle." Pearls was killed by an Arkansas policeman in an unrelated incident before he could face trial. However, as was all too typical in the Jim Crow South, the white community demanded "justice," and an innocent black woman named Emily Burns was ultimately sent to prison for the murder of Merrill. Dana and Dockery not only avoided punishment but also lived to profit from the notoriety of the murder by opening their derelict home to tourists. Strange, fascinating, and sobering, Goat Castle tells the story of this local feud, killing, investigation, and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice
OP  - 227
CN  - HV6534.N28 C69 2017
SN  - 9781469635040
SN  - 1469635046
SN  - 9781469635057
SN  - 1469635054
SN  - 1541490932
SN  - 9781541490932
SN  - 9781469635033
SN  - 1469635038
KW  - Merrill, Jennie, : 1864-1932.
KW  - Dana, Dick, : 1871-1948.
KW  - Dockery, Octavia, : 1865-1949.
KW  - Dana, Dick, : 1871-1948
KW  - Dockery, Octavia, : 1865-1949
KW  - Merrill, Jennie, : 1864-1932
KW  - Murder : Mississippi : Natchez : History : 20th century.
KW  - Judicial error : Mississippi : Natchez : History : 20th century.
KW  - African Americans : Segregation : Mississippi : Natchez : History : 20th century.
KW  - African Americans : Civil rights : Mississippi : Natchez : History : 20th century.
KW  - Meurtre : Mississippi : Natchez : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Erreur judiciaire : Mississippi : Natchez : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Noirs américains : Ségrégation : Mississippi : Natchez : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Noirs américains : Droits : Mississippi : Natchez : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Criminology.
KW  - TRUE CRIME : Murder : General.
KW  - African Americans : Civil rights
KW  - African Americans : Segregation
KW  - Judicial error
KW  - Murder
KW  - Mississippi : Natchez
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - True crime stories
KW  - History
KW  - True crime stories.
KW  - Récits criminels.
ER  -