A dairy farmer is found dead in a small Vermont town, but was it murder...or an elaborate suicide plot to frame his enemies? The mystery surrounding Orville Gibson's death was a world-wide sensation news story at the time, and remains unsolved to this day, with two prevailing theories. Was he lynched by vengeful neighbors, or did he stage his own death to take down the town that scorned him?
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LINKS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DPfA8cqkvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBnQRNKkpA
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-twist-in-vermont-farmers-mysterious-1957-death/
https://www.truecrimene.com/episodes/episode-62-the-suspicious-death-of-orville-gibson
https://newengland.com/yankee/magazine/the-haunting-case-of-orville-gibson/
https://transom.org/2014/murder-memory-in-a-new-england-village-the-story-of-orville-gibson/
https://vtdigger.org/2014/11/16/former-judge-explores-newburys-mystery-orville-gibson/
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