The Bloodbath Brothers

Pulaski sits in Giles County in southern Tennessee, close to the Alabama line, about an hour and a quarter from Nashville. At the time of the episode it had a population of 7,524. James notes that the area saw a great deal of Civil War fighting and that it was fertile ground for the Ku Klux Klan after the war, a cauldron with a K. The story he tells, though, is centred on a run-down farmhouse in nearby Elkton, where two brothers drew young people in with drugs and drink.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now The boys were heavy from an early age, more than 250 pounds each by the seventh grade and about 350 pounds as adults. They were bullied for their weight and then became bullies themselves, and they learned to cultivate a reputation for being strange: they buried neighbourhood cats in the yard and ran a lawnmower over their heads, and they ate handfuls of raw mince to shock people. Polly defended them against every complaint. By high school they had found drugs, and dealing made them popular.

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this part of the story is covered for now He later claimed the two Rogers had robbed him at knifepoint and threatened to kill him, and that he grabbed a screwdriver from a dresser and stabbed them both in self-defence. Roger Mills died from 46 stab wounds, 40 of them inflicted with the screwdriver. Roger Sellers survived. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Young people came and went. In May 1986 Gwen Dugger, a 24-year-old single mother and the daughter of tavern owner David Dugger, came to the farmhouse with her brother Ken to collect Ken's repaired car. details of the account remain covered until revealed Danice later said Gwen bought Valium and Placidyl, got high and was close to passing out. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now She left, returned half an hour later, and found Gwen naked and unconscious on a mattress. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it They wrapped the body in garbage bags, stuffed it head first into a 55-gallon barrel behind the house and burned it all night with the mattress, her clothes and rubber from the Pulaski Rubber Company. The bones were crushed and later dumped in the Elk River. this part of the story is covered for now

By then Gwen was simply missing. details of the account remain covered until revealed The wallet held Matthew's disability cheque and cash. In fact, as the investigation later established, a man named Billy Wade Bass had found the wallet on the floor of the Western Lounge and stolen the contents. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now They drove the remains to their parents' house in West Point, Tennessee, and burned them about five feet outside the back door, using rubber from work; it took two and a half days. details of the account remain covered until revealed He gave her a share of Gaines's money, which he called her third of the burial expenses.

On 20 October Joyce Gaines came home for clothes and found the carpets cut around the furniture, the phone gone, beer cans everywhere and comforters and her daughter's jewellery box and television missing. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Gaines was reported missing only after the fire. Danice, who had been given full immunity, gave a written statement on 1 May 1990 and described both killings. this part of the story is covered for now In May 1990 forensic anthropologists searched the West Point property; an accelerant dog alerted on the burn site, and Danice led police to the barrel behind the farmhouse, where the only trace of Gwen left was a nappy pin she kept on her shoe in honour of her son. Dr William Bass of the University of Tennessee examined burned cranial fragments from the West Point site.

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