Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South

by Karen L. Cox

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469661438
• ISBN13: 9781469661438
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"