Murder on Youngers Creek Road: How Car Thieves, Gamblers, Bootleggers & Bombers in One Kentucky Town Ignited a Murder-For-Hire in Another

On January 13, 1975, the enterprising community of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (a few miles from Fort Knox and the gold vault) was rocked with the news that one of their own, Peggy Rhodes—beloved housewife, mother, and grandmother—was killed when a bomb exploded in the family barn.
An hour south along I-65 lies Bowling Green, a city known for small town values, a burgeoning industrial complex, the expanding Western Kentucky University campus, and as “Home of the Corvette”. However, the city was...