Lillie Ladd

Published: Aug. 15, 2020, midnight

In 1927 the wife of the Roane County, Tennessee, sheriff managed to persuade two escaped prisoners to return to the jail in Kingston without using a weapon of any kind.  That’s a story in and of itself, but it’s only part of Lillie Ladd’s story, which includes not one but two twists at the end!  […]