Only the creaking of the wooden platform beneath two people who had once promised to spend their lives together.
Husband and wife.
Standing side by side.
Facing the same fate.
Then, just moments before the black hoods were lowered, Elizabeth and Josiah Potts turned toward one another and shared a final kiss.
What happened next would cement their place in one of the most unsettling stories of the American frontier.
But the mystery that brought them to that gallows remains controversial even today.
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