Murder in Coweta County

This work is a detailed and chillingly realistic reconstruction of the brutal murder of tenant farmer Wilson Turner, which took place in rural Georgia in 1948, and the brilliant investigation that eventually brought the murderer—a powerful county “lord”—to justice with a conviction that set legal precedents. When that county “lord,” John Wallace, crushed Turner’s skull with a sawed-off shotgun, he did not even give a passing thought to being prosecuted by the police in his “feudal kingdom” ...