One Way In,One Way Out Traditional Cache

Here’s the stuff nightmares are made of and the story (based on true accounts) goes something like this.

Nov. 27, 1925 - A date that became infamous in area history because it was the day F.M. Snow brutally butchered his wife, mother-in-law and stepson.

Elvis Riggs and Ben Aycock hunted and trapped animals all the time to make a little money. One day, they found something they weren’t hunting for at all, but something that lived in their memories for years to come.

Seventeen-year-old, Elvis Riggs decided to go down into a cellar to set some traps. That’s when he noticed a bloody tow sack. A closer examination revealed a human ear protruding from a hole in the sack. A head, decapitated from its body, found well preserved in a tow sack, hanging from logs, in a broken-down old cellar, on the Riggs’ home-place, near Selden. There was also a brand new white shirt with a mackinaw coat and a dress coat.

That night, the young man had to sleep on the floor by his parent’s bed because the vision was so disturbing for him.

The head was setup for viewing at a local funeral parlor and was viewed by many area residents. Finally, Ida Gristi, a neighbor of the Snow’s, identified the victim as Bernie Connally, Snow’s stepson. The information was not released to the public pending further investigation and location of Conally’s mother and grandmother.

Snow had killed the women earlier in the day, and hid the bodies underneath the floorboards of his home. Snow shot Conally in the back upon his arrival home with a shotgun since he knew the boy would question him regarding the whereabouts of his mother and grandmother. He decided to take the headless body to the old Bishop place and cover it with brush and stow the head in the cellar on the Riggs place thinking he would come back for it later. He then burned the bodies, one piece at a time, in the family fireplace over a two-day period.

Snow told authorities that he had taken the women along with Conally, to catch a train in Iredell.

Ranger Stewart Stanley found the family fireplace troublesome with so many ashes in it. He began poking around and turned up bone fragments, specifically female pelvis fragments, which confirmed his suspicions that Snow had murdered the two women.

The sheriff ,D.M. Hassler and his men watched Snow for quite some time. They were concerned there would be trouble apprehending Snow because he always carried a shotgun. Snow was in his wagon with a jersey cow tied to it and the cow came loose. When Snow jumped down to catch his cow the men rushed in to arrest him because he left the gun on the wagon.

Snow was found guilty and sentenced to die in the electric chair.

But the real life story of a murderous rampage lives on.

Kid Friendly Lunchtime Cache Cache In - Trash Out! Dogs Allowed Available year-round Less than 500 ft. from car to cache Beware of Muggles! Bring a pen or pencil

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