<p>In September 1909, six members of the Meadows family, including three young children, were murdered with an axe and a gun in their remote Virginia log cabin, which was then set on fire. Forty days later and eighty miles away, four members of the Hood family were killed in nearly identical fashion near Beckley, West Virginia. Was Howard Little, a convicted murderer with a questionable pardon, responsible for the Laurel Creek killings? Or did a drifting serial killer known as the "Man from the Train" strike twice and then disappear?</p><p>In this episode, we examine the fragmentary newspaper accounts, the role of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, the trial of Howard Little, and an eerie coincidence of gravestones.</p><p>Links</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.oocities.org/rmbaker66/jstsmrdr.html">Robert Baker’s Laurel Creek Murders Page</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/240825835/elizabeth_betsy_justus">Betty Justus Grave</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64274136/george_washington-hood">George Hood Grave</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Explore More Content</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://blueridgetruecrime.substack.com/">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blue Ridge True Crime Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@BlueRidgeTrueCrime-op7qe">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@BlueRidgeTrueCrime-op7qe">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blue Ridge True Crime YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠</a></p>