A literary triumph—what began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit responsible for the murder of Laura Foster Hang down your head, Tom DooleyThe folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio, recounts a tragedy in the North Carolina mountains after the Civil War. Laura Foster, a simple country girl, was murdered and her lover Tom Dula was hanged for the crime. The sensational elements in the case attracted national attention a man and his beautiful, married lover accused of murdering the other-woman the former governor of North Carolina spearheading the defense and a noble gesture from the prisoner on the eve of his execution, saving the woman he really loved.
