Daniel James Brown

And they had a couple of children.

But within a few years, William Dill Ritchie, her husband, was apprehended with some stolen mules.

And he was lynched from an oak tree.

So she was widowed a second time.

She married the third time a man named Samuel Spires and settled and had more children.

But Sarah died at 46 of heart failure.

I think many of them suffered physically from the after effects of the ordeal and certainly suffered mentally from the after effects.

Yes, there's been some archaeology, but it's also, if you discount all the sensationalist newspaper accounts, none of them can be counted on.

If you look at the actual documentary evidence, for instance, Sarah and her sister both wrote afterwards, wrote letters back to Illinois, talking very frankly about what had happened.

Reason Tucker, who led the first rescue expedition and then subsequent expedition, saw firsthand bodies that had been butchered at the lake camp.

So there's a lot of sort of dispassionate, objective documentary evidence also.

A number of these people just frankly said what they had done.

And so it's not really an open question at this point.