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A literary triumph—what started like a fictional re telling of the historic account of 1 of the very famous hill ballads ever turned an amazing thought of the actual perpetrator accountable for the killing of Laura FosterHang down your face, Tom Dooley…The people tune, made famous by the Kingston Trio, recounts a tragedy within the New York hills after the Civil War. Laura Foster, an easy country woman, was killed and her fan Tom Dula was hanged for the crime. The incredible components in the event attracted nationwide interest: a man and his stunning, committed fan accused of killing another-woman; the former governor of New York spearheading the protection; and a royal gesture in the captive to the eve of his execution, preserving the woman he truly loved. With the aid of historians, lawyers, and scientists, Sharyn McCrumb visited the particular websites, analyzed the legitimate proof, and discovered a lost bit of the story that'll surprise people who believe they know what happened—and could also provide belated justice to an innocent man. What appeared in the beginning to be always a sordid tale of infidelity and infidelity was changed from the new breakthroughs into an Appalachian Wuthering Heights.