Wallace State professor tells murder tale on Halloween Eve

Beyond Productions of Australia has announced that Robert S. Davis, senior professor of History at Wallace State, Hanceville, will appear on a special episode of Deadly Women on the Investigation Discovery Channel on Oct. 30, at 9 p.m. He will help to narrate a reenactment of the murder of Narcissa “Sis” Fowler by Kath Sothern at a dance in rural Pickens County, Georgia in 1876. The murderer initially escaped. The famous mountain tracker Walter Web Findly and his posse caught up to Kath and her family in North Carolina and brought her to trial.

This homicide caused a scandal that rocked the nation. The Atlanta Constitution’s famous writer Henry W. Grady championed the cause of Sothern, claiming that she defended her marriage by killing her husband’s lover. He argued that had it been a case of a husband so protecting his marriage, the case would not have even gone to trial in the South. The issues of women and homicide but especially women killing women will be the subject of this episode.

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