In 1910, a mob of angry Floridians gathered at Smallwood store in Chokoloskee. They gunned down their neighbor, a plantation owner named Edgar Watson. He was a suspected and feared serial killer.
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Narrator: Curtis Hildreth
Music By: Isaiah Hildreth
Sharecropper and Son By Sherry White
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Sources
https://www.coastalbreezenews.com/opinion/columnists/the-story-of-edgar-j-watson-the-infamous-businessman-serial-killer/article_e53a5f09-ff02-5b4f-9273-a0753cfbf46e.html
https://www.floridatrend.com/print/article/18034
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/collier-county-35/edgar-watson-arrests-121086/
https://medium.com/outdoor-environs/lost-mans-coast-a137f8cc6d52
https://ammo.com/articles/belle-starr-american-outlaw-bandit-queen-untold-story
https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/10/belle-starr.html
Killing Mr. Watson By Peter Matthiessen
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