Side by Side: Moonshine and Murder in Mississippi

A true crime story of a gruesome double homicide in the Jim Crow South, and the manhunt and trial that followed.

In Oxford, Mississippi, the dawn of the twentieth century seemed to present a sweeping landscape of progress and possibility. But under this veneer of technological advancement, cultural achievement, and prosperity lurked a stubborn core of racial discrimination, rampant criminal brutality, and violence.

On a Sunday morning in 1901, the mutilated corpses of two federal marshals wer...