The Crimson Scarf Ghost of Drytown Road

This episode investigates one of Lancaster County’s most enduring unsolved crimes—the 1884 murder of tavern owner Bernard Short, better known as “Barney.” Found dead near Rawlinsville, Pennsylvania with a fractured skull, Short’s death was first dismissed as a tragic horse accident. A closer medical examination told a darker story: he had been violently attacked, likely with a hatchet. Suspicion soon fell on Thomas Baney and Adam Baney, following reports of a confession and an ongoing legal d...