About this episode

A wildlife officer is gunned down while fishing with his son, leading to a highly contested criminal case.

A wildlife officer fishing with his son is gunned down on Labor Day weekend in game lands in North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest…and the case becomes one of the most hotly contested crimes at the time.

Topics covered

• true crime
• homicide
• wildlife officer
• North Carolina
• investigation

Keywords

• wildlife officer
• homicide
• North Carolina
• Pisgah National Forest
• Labor Day weekend

Mentioned in this episode

Places: North Carolina, Pisgah National Forest

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