What would happen if you stood in one state, then shot and killed someone in another? That scenario actually took place along the Tennessee-North Carolina border more than 100 years ago, and the murderer got away with it. But what’s the real story? Host Jeremy Markovich spent months criss-crossing North Carolina to find answers that even the killer’s family didn’t know.

Read more stories from North Carolina’s borders in Our State magazine’s May 2018 issue. Credits: Jeremy Markovich: writer, producer, editor, host James Mieczkowski: producer Kimberly Simpson: digital manager Elizabeth Hudson: editor-in-chief Re-Enactment Cast: Patrick Ball: Andy Bryson and Alphonso Avery

Stanton Nash: John Dockery and Walter Clark

James Mieczkowski: William Hall Music in this episode: “Thinking Famous” by Eddie Hall

Additional music: Blue Dot Sessions, Lee Rosevere Special Thanks: Marian Presswood, Jo Stakely, Wanda Stalcup, Billy Ray Palmer, Bob Orr, Eddie Hall, Donna Reed, the State Archives of North Carolina, Photograph of William Hall, courtesy of Donna Reed