In August of 1989, a 17-year-old boy went hunting on his family’s property, but never returned. When his dad went out to search for him, he found his son dead in the woods. And although his manner of death was thought to be an accident, a stranger’s suspicious threat to the family convinced them that he had been murdered. This is the story of Norman Ladner.

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CASE SOURCES
1. Unsolved Mysteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfiT5gHtjT4
2. Norman Senior's Obituary: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13207298/norman-ladner
3. Norman's Obituary: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13207222/norman-charles-ladner
4. Hattiesburg American: https://www.newspapers.com/image/278179601/?terms=norman%20charles%20ladner&match=1
5. Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/driedfruitcrap/613240535354900480/my-towns-biggest-mystery-the-death-of-norman
6. True Crime Diva: https://truecrimediva.com/norman-ladner/
7. Unsolved Mysteries Website: https://unsolved.com/gallery/norman-ladner/#comment-9230
8. Lorance's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78301326/ulmer-lorance-lumpkin
9. All That's Interesting: https://allthatsinteresting.com/dixie-mafia
10. Picayune, MS Archives:  https://picayune.ms.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Meeting-Minutes/1989.pdf
11. The Clarksdale Press Register: https://www.newspapers.com/image/268363999/?terms=lorance%20lumpkin%20dog%20fight&match=1
12. Unsolved Mysteries (Follow-up episode): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3eZmJpOd_4
13. Criminal Misconduct: https://criminalmisconduct.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-murders-of-kevin-ives-and-don-henry.html
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