“Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, hang down your head and cry. Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, poor boy, you’re bound to die.” This North Carolina folk song is based on the 1866 murder of a woman ...

But did he really return to Wilkes County, North Carolina and, furious at having contracted syphilis from pretty young Laura Foster, stab her to death? Court records state that is the case. Tom Dula ...