Hard Times and True Crimes
Hosted by Curtis Hildreth · Darlene Hildreth and Melody Gwyn
4.7from 143 ratings
- 147
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 143
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Hard Times and True Crimes
Listen to two Southern, Christian women tell each other historical true crime stories.
- Publisher
- Darlene Hildreth and Melody Gwyn
- Category
- history · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Nov 2022
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
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5 of 147 episodes have a transcript.
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125. Buried Near the Cabin: The Annville Murders of 1887
Published 3 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So they weren't, I guess they weren't completely grown yet. The census doesn't tell us whether William was kind or whether Elizabeth was happy. It doesn't let us know the tone inside the house. It just gives us a shell of their lives and A man, a woman, a household, children. William Showers wasn't a wealthy man, but he wasn't completely destitute either. He owned a two story log cabin, a barn, several necessary outbuildings so that he could work. And he had about seven acres of land. And so I feel like that's pretty modest. Well, he owned his land. He wasn't a sharecropper or forced to work somebody else's land. […]
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