Jereboam Beauchamp Part 2

Hi, I'm Holly and I'm Haley. Welcome to Mountain Mysteries Tales from Appalachia. All right, we're live. You always do that to me and welcome back folks.

Welcome back. The legend continues. It has been fun. It's been fun.

You have been ill. Yeah. I have had the strep throat, but so you guys are going to be hearing this later on. But for recording the week of my birthday and I have taken off work because why work?

The week of your birthday? Why work? So I'm not working. I'm doing other things like I do the stacation where yesterday I went to the Google bins.

Yes. Excuse me. And I have found some really great things. My son got a Buzz Lightyear costume and it actually not Buzz Lightyear.

I'm sorry, Lightning McQueen. Gotcha. And so the little car lights up. It's so adorable.

Anyway, he was like, somebody just gave this away and I was like, oh, I know. He put it on. He slept with it. Anyway, I had to talk him out of wearing it to school today.

So that was great. Today I'm recording with you tomorrow. I'm doing projects around the house. I'm doing some painting.

That's exciting. And then Thursday, my son will be out of school. Yeah. I don't know.

I didn't plan that well. And then Friday, I am going to get a Japanese hair spa. So you've seen this? I have and you've told me about it and I'm intrigued.

So if you all haven't seen this, like there's so many viral like TikToks and everything about it, basically this like waterfall goes down your head and they like massage your head and just, you know, like clean your scalp and do all these many things out here. Don't say it ain't cheap. Right. But I feel like it would be worth it.

I'm excited to see what happens. Yes. I don't like that was headed. I'm excited to see what happens to you.

Yeah. If I survive, yeah, if you survive, let me know because you should do it. Yeah. I want to.

As a side note, I also ordered shoes for myself. Nice. I also recently ordered a pair of shoes. Really?

I have the pair of the Enclouts. That's what I'm going to get. They're coming up Thursday. Well, so the first pair I bought because I was like, um, this, the cat is back this week.

Yes. You can't eat. He's really fighting sleep hard right now. And they do.

So the first pair, I got it was actually all my birthday as well. And it's this pair, they're white because I just, I really like a white shoe. They're not very practical, but I like a white shoe. You know, I think that's a very generational thing because in my day, white shoes were like what grandma's wore?

Really? Yes. It's like, yeah, I see that. But I love them.

I like, because I go with a lot of things. They do. It makes sense. Yeah.

So I got the, that pair, and I was like, I really want to wear these because I'm working at a brewery this summer. And so I'm working like in the kitchen on my feet all the time. I don't brew. I just pour the brews.

But yeah, having a good tennis duos, I really want that. So I got the white ones and I've been wearing them. And then I was like, you know, the white and the kitchen and the brown and the beer just is not a great thing. So I just ordered a new pair that are, so they're black and white.

Okay. So they're mostly like the top is black and the bottom is white. So I ordered black and like, I know, strongly it does match you. Yes.

And but there's some green. Yeah, I saw those too. That's what I got. And I thought about those and then I was like, I'm just going to get the classic like black and like, because I can wear them for like anything.

I ordered them from Zappos. Oh, no. So that's what they look like. Yeah, I've looked at those.

Yeah, I like them. So I'm excited. He says it'll change my life. I love them.

And I want my life changed. They're my favorite shoe. I have always had foot issues since I was very young. I don't know why.

But yeah, I'm excited for this to change my my whole life. I can't wait. And I love shoots. Yeah.

Like I have a lot of shoes. Oh, and something I wanted to add because I thought about it the other day, you know, so many people wear Birx Birx socks, you know, and I'm like, Oh, yes, I've always worn fake ones. Right. And I recently got rid of a pair of fake ones that just like they would beat the heck up.

And I'd had them when we were working together, like I've worn them for years. And so I was like, well, I'll just buy, you know, off the dick Birx socks. So I did. They're not comfortable.

Really? You know, I love mine. Mine are so uncomfortable that I'm like, I'm the word, the knock offs that cushion air ones because they're way more comfortable. Yeah, they're definitely not as like cushiony.

Like, they're kind of, they're just hard. Yeah. They're not like flexible. I just don't like them.

Yeah. You don't really break them in. And I exactly. And I read online that people are like, yeah, you have to wear them consistently for like three months for them to be worn in.

And I'm like, yeah, but if they're painful now, why would I put myself through that? Like, that's how people say the chocos are. And like, I have a couple pairs. I have one pair that I bought and one pair that a friend found at a thrift store that weren't her size, but they're my size.

But they just, they hurt my feet. And because I have my feet roll in. So they're pronated. So like, I walk on the inside of my feet really bad.

Like it messes up. Like, it's all I have a lot of alignment issues because of it. Like in my hips and my knees and stuff like that. But that's just the way like, the only way to correct it, quote unquote, would have been to like put me in boots or like cast it almost to like fix it when I was growing and we didn't do that, obviously, because we didn't really know.

Because it's not like bad enough that it's like, Oh, there's something really wrong there. But it's enough that it causes like, your mind to hold down over it. So I'm like connected. It's enough that it causes like some alignment issues.

Now in my old age, but it's all good. But yeah, I think it's important to find the right shoes and the older I get, more I'm less willing to wear shoes that don't feel good. Yeah. Because I'll put on a parachute and I'm like, no, these don't go good.

Goodbye. And go I have found that I like teavas. I love teavas. They're comfortable.

They're the choco alternative that are more comfortable. They're way more comfortable. I also like canes. Never try canes.

So my son wears a lot of canes, which they're not cheap shoes, even for children. Right. But I find them at thrift stores and that kind of thing. So I found a pair of thrifted canes for myself.

I love them. I love those JBU two. I call them JBU. It's JBU.

It's a brand that's really good too. Yeah. So and I love my vans. Here's what I will say about my van.

Ten issues though. My little slob on sneakers is that they also need some wearing in. They are not they're stiff. They're not comfortable early on.

Yeah, I can't wear them to my feet or so big and it makes me look like a clown. That in Congress, I can't wear either of them because I literally look like I have a clown book because I have a size like 10 and a half foot. Yeah, I wear a size 10, 10 and a half shoe. I think my uncle would have been in half.

Yeah, I know I when I'm when I'm very thin. Oh goodness. I'm like a seven, seven and a half. Wow.

And when I'm not, I'm an eight and a half nine. I know I'm very screeching. For the same way. I would love for you not to screech.

So he screeches and then he closes his eyes like he's falling asleep. He's out right now. Give him a minute. He'll screech.

Nope. Okay, I just won't move. It's an idea. So anyway, that's our shoe.

That's our shoe combo. It's great. I'll let you know how the hair feel. Yes.

And the shoe is fitting. Like all of that. I want to know because there's a couple different styles of the on clouds. So if you don't like that style, try to look at different ones.

I'm committed more because I have wide feet to wider foot beds, which I used to be like, oh, I don't care. No, I don't care. I've got some new balances that are used. Amazing because it has wide foot beds.

So anyway, all right. Yeah. Hey, I'm excited. Yeah, we're going left us last week on a cliffhanger.

Yeah. What the heck happened? We're going back in or dude? I got wait, we're going back in.

Okay. So just kind of recap. So we have this guy, Bo Camp, who is trying to defend his wife's honor. That's right.

Because she was like, Hey, I'll marry you if you murder this guy who like did me wrong, who she apparently had a child with him allegedly. He didn't claim the child. So this guy's been on like the hunt to murder this guy for like years and has not succeeded yet. No, there's been a lot of failed attempts.

So he has now like really committed that this is what we're doing and I'm doing it. So he's headed to Frankfurt in Kentucky to do this and then he's going to flee to Missouri. That's the plan. That's the plan.

So all right, he's preparing to go to Frankfurt on November 6th because he had to set date on November 7th. He's going to commit. He's going to commit the murder because that's when the legislature starts. So hopefully it can be a politically motivated crime.

Somebody else who was in the enemy. Yeah. So he also is going there because he has a warrant against him. Yeah, because a warrant against him for a father, allegedly an illegitimate child.

Yeah. So there's a reason for him to be there. Yeah. Yeah.

So we're headed to Frankfurt on November 6th. He packs a change of clothes, a black mask and a knife with poison on the tip, which he was like, this will be the murder weapon. So he arrives in Frankfurt to find that over there with a black mask. We're not strange.

So he arrives in Frankfurt. All the ins are full. He cannot find him to work to stay. Does he find like a stable?

No. No. No. No.

He finds lodging at the private residence of Joel Scott. Who's the warden of the state that it injuries? So okay. Here's a question that I have.

So if you can't find a hotel, do you just go knock on somebody's door or apparently or did he have like private room for rent? How do you know? Like a sign? I guess.

I don't know. I think he just I don't know how he ended up with this guy, but he ends up with a war. Maybe. How I already am I?

Yeah, just hilarious. So between nine and ten o'clock that evening, he slips out of the house and goes to Sharp's residence. Dressed in his disguise, he carried his usual clothes with him. He buried them along the bank of the Kentucky River.

So he could dig them back out and wear them after the murder. Obviously. Just a lot. He gets there and he's like, goes to the house.

Sharp's not home. Ding dong. He's not there. So you can't murder him at home.

So then he goes to into the city to try to find him. He finds him at a local tavern. He's like, to public, can't do here. So he goes back to the house, Sharp's house and waits for him there.

So he's like, I'll just wait here because he's gotta come home at some point. So apparently Sharp comes home around midnight around two o'clock in the morning. Bo Camp decides that everyone in the house is probably asleep and he approaches the house. So this is what he says about the event.

This is from his own words. He says, I put on my mask, drew my dagger and proceeded to the door. I knocked three times loud and quick. Colonel Sharp said, who's there?

Covington, I replied quickly. Sharp's foot was heard upon the floor. I saw under the door as he approached without a light. I drew my mask around my face and immediately Colonel Sharp opened the door.

I advanced into the room with my left hand. I grasped his right wrist. The violence of the graphs made him spring back and trying to disengage his wrist. He said, what Covington is this?

I replied, John A. Covington. I then disappeared. Oh, no, sorry.

I replied, John A. Covington. I don't know you. So Colonel Sharp, I know John W.

Covington. Oh, actually, that's me. Sorry. I don't know my middle industry.

Mr. Sharp appeared at the partition door and this disappeared. Seeing her disappear, I said in a persuasive tone of voice, come to the light Colonel and you will know me. And pulling him by the arm, he came readily to the door and still holding his wrist with my left hand, I stripped my hat and hankered shift from over my forehead and looked into Sharp's face.

He knew me the more readily I imagined by my long bush, curly suit of hair. He sprang back and examined in a tone of horror and despair. Great God, Tim. And as he said that, he fell on his knees.

I let go of his wrist and grasped him by the throat, dashing him again, against the facing of the door and muttering in his face. Dye, you villain. As I said that, I plunged a dagger into his heart. It goes.

First of all, what theatrics I love, how this how he creates the story. I know, you know, open the door. It's me, Johnny Covington. Well, I don't know you, but I know what John W.

Covington. Oh, yeah, that's all good. You come into the light and you will see and then the wife looks around and you're like, back up, bitch. I got things to do.

And so she's like, okay, never mind. I'll go back to bed. Thanks for everything. Oh, good.

You're gonna kill him. You know, and then you die, you're a bastard. Die, die, die. Die, you villain.

Die, you evil villain. That's pretty crazy. That is. And the fact it's like, oh, yes, I knew him because of his long curly hair.

You don't know him because you worked with him for years, and he was like, you're a princess. Wouldn't you know somebody who worked under you? I would think so. I wouldn't threaten your life multiple times.

Multiple times, yeah. I would think so, yeah. Yeah. I assume he died.

Yes. Okay. So he died within moments. Okay, because it was poison.

Yes, the poison tipped nice. So he end into the heart. So it's not not great. So he flees the scene.

He goes back to the river where he'd hidden his ginger clothes. He changes out of the disguise, sank the disguise in the river with a stone, then returned to his room at the house of Joel Scott. When the Scott family woke up the next morning, Bo Camp comes out from his room. He feigned surprise when told of the murder, and apparently his ruse was believed.

After being assured there were no suspects yet, he called for his horse and began to return his return trip to Bowling Green. After four days, he arrived and told his wife that sharp was dead. The next morning, a posse from Frank Verte arrived in a four-mow camp that he was under suspicion for the murder. And he agreed to go back with the men to Frank Verte to face the charge.

Okay. So what happened to the, I'm going to kill him and go to Missouri. I don't know. I think he went and then went back to home and then they were going to go from home to Missouri.

I guess so. But I mean, that's a real bummer about those two men on a truck. I mean, they took two men in a wagon. I mean, now they've taken all your craft to Missouri.

Is the wife just sitting there, sands, couch and bed and stuff? Like, they're just, you know, really roughing it? I guess. I don't know.

We're strong actresses, I guess. Just like us. Just like our past life. Yeah.

Beautiful. Yeah. Okay. So he shows up because back to Frank Verte with these guys.

They're like, Hey, it's kind of weird that you were there. And then you left. It's just weird. So he goes back to Frank Verte November 15th of 1825.

He's pleased to find out that the new court partisans were saying that sharp assassination had to be the work of the old court party, which is exactly what he planned. So he was like, great, they're thinking this is political murder. Suspicious first came on Warren who had printed that pan bill that we talked about last week. That said that, you know, he fathered this illegitimate child, but then said that he didn't because the father was actually a slave.

So it's a whole thing. So they're thinking maybe it was that guy who had printed that and he had killed him because apparently he was a pretty violent man. So and yeah, I'm shocked. Right.

And also you had the warden who was like, he was here all night because he woke up breakfast with you. Yeah. So he, they thought it was that guy because you know, he had political and personal motivation to commit the crime, but he was declared clear when investigation found that he was actually in Thea County recovering from injury sustained and unrelated altercation. Okay, well, that pays them to beat somebody up.

Yeah, so he is in a different spot. Okay, so they then turn our suspicion to bo camp. Bo camp, who was also loyal to the old court party. And by all accounts hated sharp for his political principles.

There was also the matter of, you know, his involvement with and so they're thinking all this stuff. They're like putting the pieces together. They said he had opportunity to commit the crime because he was in Frank for that night. And his host said that he heard book and leaving in the middle of the night.

So he didn't like, okay, he would say it's still here all the time. No, so they present some preliminary testimony to the court and the attorney Charles Bibb, you know, gatters, witnesses and stuff like that. Bo camp was like, don't really love this. So there was a delay and they pushed the hearings back to mid December.

There was a dagger taken from Bo camp when he was arrested. It didn't match the wound on sharp's body, though. So once he finally confessed or whatever, apparently he had buried the actual murder weapon, which was never found. Okay, so I thought that yeah, I thought that threw it into the river with a rock.

Well, apparently the heater was closed in there and then he buried and I don't know, which is very bizarre. Yeah, so there was an attempt made to match the shoes, his shoes to a track found, but they didn't match. There's a handkerchief found on the scene of the crime believed to belong to the murderer. But he they lost it like they lost the handkerchief.

That's my kind of story or evidence, man. Yeah, so they lost it during their return from Bowling Green, Bo camp then later claimed that he stole it and burned it after the they had fallen asleep that night was ever bringing it back or like I stole the evidence and burned it. So then if you were supposed to be keeping an eye on him, what good are you? Very low.

Yeah. Yeah. So the wife, Eliza Sharp, saw this. Yeah, she testified that the voice of the killer was very distinct.

So they did, you know, a voice identification test or whatever, which I'm assuming during that period of time was they just like stood behind a door and said a few words and hoped for this. Do you villain? Yeah. Yeah, so she immediately though identified him.

It was number three. Yeah. So Bo camp claimed though that he had disguised his voice that night and really thought that she wouldn't recognize it. Yeah.

So another old court partisan member claimed in 1824 that he had had an encounter with a man that he now knew was Bo camp. He had said that a stranger, he was a stranger to him at the time and he had asked for Darby's help in prosecuting an unspecified claim against Sharp. The man identified himself as a husband of Anne Cook declared his intention to kill Sharp and then based on this evidence he was held for trial in the circuit court in March of 1826. So he's like told other people he's like, I want to murder this guy, which like, I don't think he should be an always young kid closer to the best.

Right. Right. Yeah. So in anticipation of the trial, Bo camp's uncle whom he's named after her, Jerbalm first.

Jerbalm. He assembles his legal team that included former US Senator John Pope, the grand jury convened in March and returned in indictment as Bo camp for Sharp's murder. Bo camp asked her more time to gather witnesses before the trial began. The court, you know, as ceded to this request and scheduled a special session in May, specifically for this case, his trial began May 1826.

There was, they asked for a change of venue. It was denied. He pled innocent to the charge of murder. So this goes to jury, so jury trail now, testimony began May 10 Eliza Sharp detailed the events of the night in the murder and said, you know, this is the guy because I recognize his voice.

John Lowe, who's a magistrate of Cincinnati testified that he heard about camp for it to kill Sharp and said that on Bo camp's return from Frankfurt, he observed him waving a red flag and declaring to his wife that he had gained the victory. Yeah, I really understand why you would do that, but people around. It's a lot. So yeah, there's a lot of other like testimony, things like that.

And people saying like, you know, he told me that he was going to kill this guy, all this stuff. So just when it concludes May 15 1826, they deliberate, do all the things. And despite the lack of physical evidence, they only deliver for an hour before convicting Bo camp of murder. He was into death by hanging on June 26 of that year.

He requested, no, they were like, we get this done. He requested a stay of execution in order to write a justification for his actions. The stay was granted. The execution was rescheduled for July 7.

So a couple weeks later, though when his wife was questioned, a charge against her for being an accessory to the crime was dismissed. So they were going to and they didn't. Even though back in the day, she planned it. Yeah.

So while he was imprisoned and waiting execution, he wrote out his confession. He accused, you know, people of perjury, saying that they lied, that he never said any of that, like if he was going to kill him, all this stuff. So it just all this like really weird stuff was in there. So they were trying to get a pardon for him through some of the political stuff going on.

So he finished the confession in mid June of 1826 and his uncle, Senator Bo Camp took it to the state printer to have it published immediately. The printer, though, was an old court supporter and would not publish it. Shew. So Anna joined her husband in his cell at her own request due to their incarceration.

They tried to bribe a guard into allowing them to escape that failed. They attempted to pass a letter to Senator Bo Camp asking him to help with the escape, which also failed. So both the Senator and, you know, Bo Camp himself made repeated requests for pardon from the governor, but didn't happen. His final request for a stay of execution was rejected on July 5 of 1826.

So that was kind of the last hope he had. So due to that failing, he and Anna attempted double suicide by taking a vial of Lauden Laudenham that Anna smuggled into the cell. Both of them survived the attempt and the following warning they were put on suicide watch and threatened with separation. So the night before the execution, Anna took a second dose of Laudenham, was unable to keep it down.

So she lived. On July 7, 1826, which was the date of the execution, Anna requested that the guard give her privacy to dress. Once the guard left, Anna produced a knife, she smuggled into the cell and both she and her husband stabbed themselves within. Anna was taken to a nearby house to be treated by doctors.

Two weeks to stay on her walk, Bo Camp was loaded onto a cart to be taken to the gallows. So he's like survived the sniping of himself. He's bleeding out dying slowly and they're like, I mean, we still don't hang him. I mean, we did death.

I'm right at that point. So they roll him up there. He begs to see Anna before he's taken, but the guards told him that she was not seriously injured and would recover. He insisted on seeing his wife and the guards finally agreed to let him see his wife on this time.

Upon arriving, he was angered of the guards that lied to him regarding his wife's condition. And he remained with her until he could no longer feel her pulse. He kissed her lifeless lips and was hurried to the gallows so that he might be hanged before he died of the cell wounds. So she's killed herself.

And they were like, no, she's gonna be fine. And then he gets there and he's like, no, she's dying. So they let him stay with her till she died. Wow.

Meanwhile, he's like, you know, also dying from stab wounds and they're like, hey, we gotta get this guy because we gotta hang him before he dies. We gotta get the justice. We gotta get the justice. And, you know, it's public.

We gotta get public what they want. Yeah. So he's on the way to the gallows. He asked them to see Patrick Darby, who was, you know, part of the trial and everything else.

So he asked to see him. He was there to witness the, you know, execution or whatever. So Bo Camp apparently smiled at him and altered his hand, but Darby declined to adjust her. He then publicly denied that Darby had any involvement with the murder, but accused Darby of having lied about the 1824 meeting where he testified that, you know, he said that he was gonna kill him.

Yeah. Darby denied the accusation and tried to talk to Bo Camp about it, hoping he would retract the charge. But it's like, why are we, why are we having these conversations? I was here.

I would insert maybe now's not the time. And Bo Camp thought that as well. He was like, you know, no. And so he told the car driver, like, take me to the gallows.

He's like, all right. So they get to the gallows. Two men, so try to hold him up because he's, you know, bleeding to death from stab wounds. So they hold him up.

They put the news around his neck. He asks for a drink of water and at the band that was there, played Bonaparte's retreat from Moscow, which is apparently a so they have a live band band. Oh, music did I do. Yeah, how weird.

So on his signal, the cart that held him drove away. He died after a reef struggle. His father requested that his body, which was, you know, following the instructions that Bo Camp had given at the time, be that they position the bodies of Bo Camp and Anna and embrace and bury them in the same coffin. And a poem that Anna had written was also etched on their tombstone.

Yeah, pretty crazy. So Senator Bo Camp eventually found a publisher for the confession for his, you know, he read us a confession. The first printing ran on August 11, 1826. Sharp's brother, Dr.

Leander Sharp attempted to counter the confession with vindication of the character of late Colonel Solomon P. Sharp, which he wrote in 1827. So apparently this like, it's pretty like a book that he wrote of his confession where he's like, settle this stuff. And so the brother is like, Hey, that's slander.

Right. So this is bad. We shouldn't do this. In the book, Dr.

Sharp claimed to have seen a quote first version of the confession in which you both can't implicate a Derby. Derby threatened to sue Sharp if he published, you know, his vindication and John Warren threatened to kill him if he did so. So his manuscript was never published of like his, you know, comeback or whatever. Like before we had this rap tracks, we had this confession writing, I guess.

So he didn't publish it. But it was found later during a remodel of the house that he lived in so that exists. So later, Bo Camp's murder of Sharp served his inspiration for fictional works, including Edgar Allan Poe's politician and Robert Ben Warren's world enough and time. Wow.

Yeah. So thank you to murder Pedia for your assistance in this story. But that's that's it. Can I just say, I wonder if the epitaph said, you know, like, my husband used to have swagger until he killed that man with his poisonous dagger.

Wow. That was good. How long did he come up with that? After you said she wrote a poem, I was like thinking about it in my brain.

Yeah, you're welcome. That was really good. Thank you. Wow.

Yes. Yes. We're up in rhymes. Listen, this is this is why I am a Grammy award winning artist.

Obviously. This is the kind of beat you're gonna get from someone such as myself. Yeah, the talents of heart and box and cat box. Pretty much anything that you put in box.

I, my next one could be about two men and a wagon. It could be. I put all I put all the stuff in a box with two men and a wagon. That's just in rhymes.

That was, that was, it doesn't feel as, you know, we'll keep workshopping it. Well, I like that. Yeah. I like that idea.

Let me just say this is the craziest story I've ever heard. Very Romeo and Juliet vibes. Yeah. Very dramatic.

I cannot believe there hasn't been a movie about this. This feels like a right, like this should be like, yeah, this is a lot. Well, I, this is amazing. I love it.

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