The Strange South Podcast

The Strange South Podcast


Episode 143: Goat Castle Part 1

August 27, 2023

Patrice, Marleah, and Courtney drink Hellfire Old-Fashioneds and talk old southern homes, spite, cousin lovers, livestock-related lawsuits, and murder.


Marleah begins the story of the 1932 murder of Jennie Merrill in Natchez, Mississippi. The cast of characters: a wealthy southern belle turned recluse, a mentally ill castoff of a landowning family, a goat-loving, litigious Arkansan, a poor laundress, and her mother, and a dapper black man down on his luck. Wait - is this a Tennessee Williams play?