Flowers for Dana: the 1949 Murder of Dana Marie Weaver in the "Star City" Roanoke, Virginia

On Mother's Day 1949, someone killed a high school girl in a church kitchen. The janitor found her body the next morning.... brutally beaten... strangled... lying in a pool of blood.

Baffled police got an anonymous phone tip to go ask her classmate Lee Goode Scott, an Eagle Scout who sang in the church choir. Officers went to the school and called him to the principal's office. The minute they saw the scratches and deep cut on his face, they knew they had their man.

So began the saga of a not...