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Episode Rewind: 140 - Mob Mentality: Mercer County, 1872

Episode Rewind: 140 - Mob Mentality: Mercer County, 1872

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 In 1872, a mob broke into the Mercer County jail and whisked away three men suspected of raping and killing 13-year-old Mary Arabelle Secaur. Two of the suspects were lynched, the third was spared. But a couple of years later, one of the mob's leaders made a deathbed confession that he had killed little Mary and led the hanging of two innocent men. ⁠www.ohiomysteries.comEp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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