The False Accusation That Buried a Town

The second day after I came back to my hometown, my brother's wife, Abigail Lambert, showed up at the gate with her whole family in tow, insisting that I'd walked her sister home the night before and forced myself on her out in the cornfield.

Evelyn Lambert stood in the middle of the crowd of neighbors, sobbing herself hoarse, spinning the whole thing out in vivid detail. She said I'd had my eye on her for a long time, that this wasn't even the first time, and that she was carrying my child now.