Sweet Tea Murders LIVE: The Billings Murders On a quiet summer night in 2009, Pensacola was shaken by a crime so shocking it captured national headlines. Byrd and Melanie Billings, […]
Tickets are now on sale for the next Sweet Tea Murders walking tour!
Crimes Around the Plaza returns Thursday evening, July 30, with the same historic route and stories from our sold-out first walk around Plaza Ferdinand.
We’ll gather in the heart of Old Pensacola and revisit five dark chapters hiding in plain sight: the Florence McGowan courthouse shooting, the murder of Officer John Gordon, the Villar/Glennon waterfront story, the strange case of Wayman King, and the killing of Pensacola mayor Peter Alba.
The last tour sold out, so don’t wait too long.
Same plaza. Same stops. Same deep secrets.
Wanted for murder in Texas and hiding under an assumed name in West Florida, notorious gunfighter John Wesley Hardin believed he had escaped justice. Join Michael Earl Simmons for the true story of the outlaw, the manhunt, and the dramatic Pensacola capture that ended his years as a fugitive.
Hank Killam was a home-town man. From his time in Dallas, he was directly or indirectly involved with Jack Ruby and with Lee Harvey Oswald. But it was the occurrences after the assassination of the president that turned the case.
Long before Milton had brick hotels, telephone wires, and busy streets around the courthouse square, Arcadia Mill helped set the town in motion. Its timber, waterpower, labor, and transportation routes turned the Blackwater country into a place of industry and ambition. By the time Charles Sudmall built the Exchange Hotel, Milton had become a modern town — one ready for telephones, automobiles, business deals, and men with money to lose. But behind that progress came darker things: rivalry, suspicion, and a murder that began with a simple telephone call and ended with questions Milton never fully answered.
Step beyond the postcard view of downtown Pensacola and discover the crimes, mysteries, and forgotten stories hidden around Plaza Ferdinand. On this guided walking tour, local crime historian and retired police sergeant Michael Earl Simmons leads you through the very streets where some of the city’s most fascinating cases unfolded. Join us September 26 at 4:00 p.m. and discover a side of Pensacola’s history you may never have known was there.
Join Author & Historian Michael Earl Simmons as he tells the little-known story of the dramatic capture of one of the world's most notorious serial killers, Ted Bundy.
