The Wicked South

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Moonshine MammasIn this episode of The Wicked South Podcast, Kathryn Smith, author of Baptists and Bootleggers andMethodists and Moonshiners, shares tales of shoot-outs and ...

28 Sep 202332min

Thousands shuffled through those dark doorways each year, from every county in South Carolina. Many were helped, many died, and some had no business being there at all. In this episode of The Wicked S...

21 Sep 202326min

A Black teenager is killed in a shotgun slaying during a racially turbulent time of our S.C. Lowcountry history. It takes four years, a wealthy Yankee do-gooder, and an FBI investigation before five w...

31 Aug 202329min

From Hampton, S.C. to Selma - The Civil Rights CrusadersFrom seemingly insignificant small towns like Hampton, South Carolina, to historic landmark locations like Selma, Alabama, crusaders at home and...

24 Aug 202345min

The devil has always walked among us, often disguised in the friendly faces of family members, but driven by wild demons: alcohol, drugs, or mental illness.In The Wicked South Podcast Episode 7, Micha...

10 Aug 202334min

Matt and Michael dive into the fascinating history of banking in Hampton.During the Great Depression, Randolph Murdaugh Sr. prosecuted crooked, corrupt bankers and sent them to prison. Almost a centur...

1 Aug 202327min

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker continue to tell the story of the Wicked South.The wicked preacher took the underaged girl under his wing, then fast and prayed until God "sanctioned their union." But lo ...

27 Jul 202331min

Michael Dewitt, Seton Tucker and Matt Harris bring you another case from the Wicked South.It is a case eerily similar to Stephen Smith's unsolved homicide. Another dead Hampton County teen found in th...

21 Jul 202333min