The Morbidity of the Graves Brothers

The brothers left a trail of death wherever they went, and as a result, they became remarkably easy to track. Authorities were able to trace them to the banks of the Holston River, where a man named William Ballard was found disenbowd then tossed into the waters so the fish could gnaw in his rotting flesh. They were then traced to a place known as Brassles Knob, where the body of a man named James was discovered with his home ransacked, and his throat slashed. It seems just a few nights later the brothers came across an entire family sleeping in a camp not far off the trail from where they were walking down. We can speculate that the farmer was