Two weeks after Labor Day, 1949, the most heinous crimes to occur in Sevier County, Tennessee in over 50 years shook the community. Charles J. Perry, 70, owner of Perry’s Camp, a beer joint, eatery, and tourist court, located between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, was tortured, brutally murdered, and robbed. His live-in housekeeper, Josie Law, 43, was also stabbed to death. Arrested and charged during the ensuing week were Claude Robertson, 40, a career criminal who lived nearby; and two brothers, Hermie Lee Jones, 26, and Basil Jones, 20, both of Fall Branch in Washington County some 76 miles away. All three were indicted and in mid-November 1949, four days after the trial began, Robertson and Hermie Lee entered guilty pleas to both murders and were sentenced to 99 years. Basil Jones was released. Robertson died in prison in 1964. Nine months later, Hermie Lee’s sentence was commuted to life, and he was paroled. Basil in 1960 became a Missionary Baptist minister and was pastor of several churches near his home.

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R. S. Allen was born and reared in East Tennessee during the last two decades of segregation. Like a lot of kids that grew up in the 1950s, he envisioned himself one day wearing pin stripes. In 1953 at age 9 he saw a pitcher he would try to emulate into his teens. Then and for all the years that followed he wondered why this pitcher pitched in a league not worthy of his talent. Following almost 30 years as an investigator, half of it as an FBI Agent, and another 10 years as a business owner, he found the time to answer this lingering unanswered question.

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