 In 1956, in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, 12 year old Romy Asherton witnessed the brutal murder of her father. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the crime are the reason it s held such interest and become almost folklore. The child insisted a talking Raccoon she d befriended years earlier had committed the crime. And today, fifty years later, the old woman, dying of cancer and residing in an insane asylum, still insists her story is fact--not myth.