Literary Ventures Fund's review
The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice
by David Rose
I grew up in Columbus and lived there during the stocking stranglings. I still go home to vist family. I have read the book and I could not put it down. I enjoyed the history of the city that is detailed in the book. While the book includes the murders it is more about the trail of Carlton Gary, his criminal history, and how the city of Columbus has not changed much over the years.I found it interesting to see where all the detectives and mayors, the so badly botched this case, are now in their lives. Great read.
Literary Ventures Fund's review
The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice by David Rose
Literary Ventures Fund's review
rating:
recommended for: 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 remains on death row.
"A gripping and brilliant piece of reporting that both lays bare an appalling miscarriage of justice and exposes its origins in the tortured history of the South."
—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking
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 remains on death row.
"A gripping and brilliant piece of reporting that both lays bare an appalling miscarriage of justice and exposes its origins in the tortured history of the South."
—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking
I grew up in Columbus and lived there during the stocking stranglings. I still go home to vist family. I have read the book and I could not put it down. I enjoyed the history of the city that is detailed in the book. While the book includes the murders it is more about the trail of Carlton Gary, his criminal history, and how the city of Columbus has not changed much over the years.I found it interesting to see where all the detectives and mayors, the so badly botched this case, are now in their lives. Great read.