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Memphis: True Crime History Bus Tour

By Backbeat Tours
10 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is £30 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
Overview
  • Hear how Georgia Tann used the Tennessee Children's Home Society to steal babies
  • Learn about local Memphis woman, Alma Theede's long list of dead husbands
  • Feel the goosebumps as your hear storey after storey about the city's dark past

Activity location

    • Memphis
    • Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • 197 Beale St, Memphis, TN 38103, USA | Meet your tour guide at the activity provider's, Backbeat Tours, ticket podium located on the downstairs patio at Alfred's. If you are arriving by car, there are four different parking garages within a few blocks of the meeting point, and several open-air parking lots. The closest garage to the location, just two blocks away, is at 149 Peabody Place between Second Street and BB King Blvd., next to the Hampton Inn. You can try your luck with on-street metered parking, too, on Second Street just south of Beale; on Beale between Front and Second; or along Peabody Place from Front to Fourth Street.
    • Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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Memphis: True Crime History Bus Tour
  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m
    1h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 16:30
Price details
£29.85 x 2 Adults£59.70
Total
Price is £59.70

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Return transport by air-conditioned (or heated) bus
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Local tour guide
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Stop at Moxy Hotel for themed cocktails (mocktails, soft drink, and water also available)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Tips
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Hotel pickup and drop-off

Know before you book

  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Embark on a twilight exploration of Memphis' murderous, scandalous, fascinating past, complete with serial killers, mobsters, vengeful lovers, and compelling unsolved cases on a bus tour.

Sit back and listen to your local guide's stories as they take you to the scene of some of the city's most notorious crimes. See where a serial killer caused terror over a summer. Pass by Beale Street's deadliest saloon. Hear about stories of Georgia Tann, the notorious baby thief.

Try not to let chills go down your spine as you learn about Memphis' coldest case or about the 'Black Widow' of Vance Avenue, Alma Theede's chilling storey. Continue on to hear about the largest jail break in Shelby County history, and more.

Return to your starting point filled with a new angle on Memphis, one of its darker sides.

Location

Activity location

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    • Memphis
    • Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • 197 Beale St, Memphis, TN 38103, USA | Meet your tour guide at the activity provider's, Backbeat Tours, ticket podium located on the downstairs patio at Alfred's. If you are arriving by car, there are four different parking garages within a few blocks of the meeting point, and several open-air parking lots. The closest garage to the location, just two blocks away, is at 149 Peabody Place between Second Street and BB King Blvd., next to the Hampton Inn. You can try your luck with on-street metered parking, too, on Second Street just south of Beale; on Beale between Front and Second; or along Peabody Place from Front to Fourth Street.
    • Memphis, Tennessee, United States