The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice
by David Rose
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Read in January, 2008
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Ugh.... I actually threw this book away before even finishing it. Being from the Columbus, Georgia area, I completely disagreed with 90% of everything the author wrote about the area and the mentality of the people here. Only whites living in the northern part of town and only blacks living in the southern part??? When, exactly, is the last time the author visited this city???? 1952 ??? This city, more so than any other city in Georgia, perhaps in the whole South, is a huge melting pot of man...more
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Read in January, 2008
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Fans of True Crime, investigative journalism, issue of race and legal justice
From award-winning Vanity Fair reporter David Rose, The Big Eddy Club, an investigative expose of race, injustice, and serial murder in the Deep South
Over the course of eight bloody months in the 1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven elderly white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight years after the last murder, an African American, Carlton Gary, was convicted and sentenced to death. Though many in the city doubt his guilt, he remai...more
Over the course of eight bloody months in the 1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven elderly white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight years after the last murder, an African American, Carlton Gary, was convicted and sentenced to death. Though many in the city doubt his guilt, he remai...more
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