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The Texas Serial Killer Who Killed Ex-Slaves

He claimed he survived being hanged two times

Wild Bill Longley —

“I was just a fool boy, led off by older heads, and taught to believe that it was right to kill sassy negroes, and then to resist the military law,” — Bill Longley, from by Rick Miller

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Ryan Fan

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