Charles Oldham’s “The Senator’s Son” Is Early 20th Century True Crime at the North Carolina Outer Banks
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In today’s episode number 62, we meet Charles Oldham, author of “The Senator’s Son,” a turn-of-the-century true crime mystery set on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
On Monday, February 13, 1905, eight-year-old Kenneth Beasley, son of a state senator, walked to the back of his school playground near the cold woods and swamplands of Currituck County and never returned. A year later, a political rival of Kenneth’s father was arrested, and forced to endure a show trial of star lawyers, spectators and newspaper reporters.
After the verdict and surprising aftermath, author Kenneth Oldham reopened the case, using modern research methods and his legal training to offer his own theory about what really and truly happened in this tragedy that ripped families apart and shocked the state.
We start in a good place, with Charles reading from the beginning of the book.
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The Senator’s Son is Charles Oldham’s first published book and the product of several lifelong passions. Charles was born and raised in Sanford, North Carolina, the son of a community college professor and a math teacher, where his parents instilled in him a natural curiosity, and a love for reading. Early on, Charles had a special interest in history and politics, most especially that of North Carolina, where his family roots go back more than two centuries. He also has a keen eye for mysteries, for searching out the details of a story that needs to be explored. It is a talent that led him to become an attorney and that led him to try to solve a mystery more than a century old. Charles graduated from Davidson College and University of Georgia law school and when is not writing or thinking about that next mystery to solve, he can be found doing just about anything outdoors, especially hiking and camping.
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