We have an update to a weird and wild story about a ring of thieves in Texas and other states that were making a LOT of money from a scam involving an iconic kids toy.
Huge shoutout to these employees who showed caution and care for the customers. Their intervention may have prevented something truly terrible from happening.
You can find various online sources. However, Wikipedia claims that in addition to the regular "business" of housing POWs during the Civil War, there were horrible things that took place here during that time.