There are only a handful of locations on earth where “hell” is part of a place name. Nine, according to the National Geographic Atlas of the World. This is a story of another.
The murder of Laura Foster was in all the papers. Did you miss it? You may have, the murder occurred in 1866. Shortly after a Confederate soldier returned home following his release from a Union Army prison, his girlfriend’s body was found in a shallow grave and Tom Dula was accused.