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  • The Murder of Laura Foster

    The Murder of Laura Foster

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    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.

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There was a movie (1949, I think) and then a television show about a naked city and the stories of its people. In this story the people are real and the facts are true, but everything about the featured postcards is wonky and weird. It’s one of the eight-million stories.

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