Ouachita County in south-central Arkansas holds the sleepy, bucolic town of Camden, about 80 miles east of Texarkana and 110 miles northeast of Shreveport, Louisiana. It is here, in a place where just about everybody knows everyone, that the mysterious 2015 death of Matt Jacobs haunts its townspeople, a case featured in the new Oxygen original two-hour special, Southern Fried Lies.
Jacobs, 34, was well known as the town’s richest man, having earned a sizable settlement following his near-death experience in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig explosion of 2010. According to the special’s official description, it is following Jacobs’ unfathomable passing that a “secret mistress and other inexplicable deaths” come to light, and at the center of the action is Camden woman Donna Herring.
Here’s what we know.
Who is Donna Herring?
Donna Herring is the southern, wisecracking matriarch featured in Southern Fried Lies…