Who was Edgar J. Watson, the Florida farmer shot dead by his own neighbours in 1910? Was he really the serial killer of Everglades legend, suspected in the murder of the outlaw Belle Starr and accused of murdering his own harvest crews rather than pay them? And how much of his fearsome reputation can actually survive contact with the historical record?

Join John and Patrick as they journey into the Ten Thousand Islands to separate fact from folklore in one of Florida's most notorious murder legends — uncovering, beneath the myth, a genuinely fascinating story of vegetables, sugarcane, and a fragile agricultural frontier where reputation could be as valuable as land.

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