Woolfolk Murder Case

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., University of Georgia School of Law

The New Georgia Encyclopedia, December 18, 2009

Abstract

The most infamous crime in nineteenth-century Georgia occurred in Bibb County, about twelve miles west of Macon, in the early morning hours of August 6, 1887, when Tom Woolfolk (pronounced WUHL-fork) murdered nine members of his family with an ax.