Southeast of the Kansas town of Emporia, a one-lane metal bridge from 1907 connects the shores of the Cottonwood River. Its official name is Rocky Ford Bridge; however, locals refer to it more as Bird Bridge, after a Lutheran minister, Thomas Bird, allegedly murdered his wife here in July of 1983. Bird was later convicted for the crime, as well as for killing his lover's husband. A story about the case ran on the front page of the LA Times and inspired the 1987 CBS film "Murder Ordained." Since then, myths about ghosts of the dead appearing around the bridge have wreathed the place. So, I went to investigate...
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