Tom Dooley said Annie Melton stabbed Laura and Tom covered up.
Years later Doc's grandma said she was the next room when Annie Melton died. The women in the room said there were sounds coming from Annie's bedroom that sounded like hot stones tossed into cold water and the flames of h#ll. Annie told the women that if she didn't get well again, she had something to tell them.
She told her husband the secret right before she died, and he was said to have lost his mind.
Shoot. Vampires and Zombies, wouldn’t you know.
There's a lot of that (creepy damnation stories) going around in the mountains. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.