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Murder in the Peach State explores the true stories of the greed, lust and hatred that led to some of Georgia's darkest hours of the twentieth century.
In 1913, when lust killed Mary Phagan, and hatred Leo Frank, the rest of the nation questioned Georgia's stature as a civilized region.
When John Williams killed 11 black men in 1921 in Jasper County to hide the fact that he was keeping slaves on his farm well after the Civil War, his motive was greed but the nation cried bigotry. Once again the South was labeled socially less developed.
More than two decades later someone killed four blacks on Moore's Ford Road in Walton County. The motive once again appeared to be hatred. No matter the motive the crimes hurt the image of the state as the rest of the nation questioned why a World War II hero had been lynched on one of Georgia's dirt roads. Some lawmen struggled to end the violence while others conspired to create it.
Halfway through the century, bootleggers killed the prosecutor of Jackson County with a dynamite bomb, and an evil restaurant owner in Macon poisoned those who interfered with her passions and greed. Lust and greed continued to emerge as motives which darkened the proud communities in the South. Murder seemed inevitable even in the best of towns.
As the century neared closure, someone prowled the streets of Columbus strangling ederly women of the neighborhood of Wynnton. The killer's motives -- unclear. In 1991 the power of greed is graphically displayed when one friend decapitates another for the love of money in Griffin.
Murder in the Peach State, with eerie detail, will walk you through the best and worst of people in Georgia making history through murder and mayhem.
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About the Author
Bruce L. Jordan, also the author of Death Unexpected, is a 20 year veteran with the Fayette County Sheriff's Department. He holds the rank of major and has been the chief investigator for more than a decade.
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"...I found it almost impossible to begin one of these stories and lay it aside before finishing it..." -- Dr. Ferrol A. Sams, Jr. M.D., Author of Run With the Horsemen and The Whisper of the River
"This book is a collection of great crime stories, some familiar and others not so well known. All are...compelling..." -- Jim Minter, Author and former editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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- PublisherMidtown Pub Corp
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0966076834
- ISBN 13 9780966076837
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages305
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