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The Last Ride is the first book ever written about the murder of prominent Nashville citizen W. Haynie Gourley on May 24, 1968, and the heart-stopping, controversial trial that riveted the city of Nashville, Tennessee, and caused a sensation during the summer of 1969. Set primarily amid the racial turmoil following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, the book traces the circumstances leading up to the killing of the popular,...
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On a February evening in 1975, Marica Trimble was delivering Girl Scout cookies in her neighborhood. She never returned home. A month later her body was found. Jeffrey Womack was a fifteen year old neighbor. He became the prime suspect in the crime and was the focus of a police investigation which followed him for over thirty years. In July 2009 Jerome Barrett, a serial rapist and murderer, was convicted of the crime by irrefutable DNA evidence. This...