Case File 010: Wilkes County, 1956. Caught by a Barbed Wire Fence.
Federal revenuers chased him down mountain highways for years and never once caught him on the road. So they stopped chasing and started waiting. This week, a lighter story from right here in the foothills: Junior Johnson, Wilkes County moonshine, and the fence that finally did what the law couldn't.
Holler Nights : Ghosts -The Grave on the Ridge
Wilkes County, 1866. Laura Foster rode out before sunrise to meet the man she planned to marry. She never came home, but the horse did. The song made Tom Dooley famous. Tonight, we tell her story, and the one folks near that ridge still whisper about.