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Author:
Rawlings, William, 1948- author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003033205
Title:
Six inches deeper : the disappearance of Hellen Hanks : a true account of one of Georgia's most horrific crimes / William Rawlings.
Publisher:
Mercer University Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xii, 223 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Subject:
Cook, Bobby Lee.
1900-1999
Murder--Lowndes County.--Lowndes County.
Murder--Georgia--History--20th century.
Trials (Murder)--Lowndes County.--Lowndes County.
Murder.
Trials (Murder)
Georgia.
Georgia--Lowndes County.
History.
Other Authors:
Mercer University Press. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94098037
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
On August 31, 1972, Hellen Hanks, a pretty thirty-four-year-old mother of three disappeared from her place of employment at Wilcox Advertising in Valdosta, Georgia. After a brief investigation by local and state authorities, the case went cold. In the fall of 1980, a farmer clearing a field south of town discovered a buried object, a box containing the dismembered remains of the missing woman. After several months of investigation, police arrested "Foxy" Wilcox, his son Keller Wilcox, and two long-term African American employees of Wilcox Advertising. Keller was charged with Hanks's murder, and the others with concealing a death. The Wilcoxes were members of a prominent and wealthy Valdosta family. To defend their case, they hired famed defense attorney Bobby Lee Cook. Keller Wilcox's murder trial in January 1982 pitted Cook against a local prosecution team led by district attorney Lamar Cole. The case against Wilcox was entirely circumstantial, making the outcome uncertain. After a trial marked by controversy and conflicting testimony, Wilcox was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, all the while proclaiming his innocence. In 1985 he was freed by a federal judge based primarily on the harsh interrogation of the black witnesses. The true story of this horrific murder has all the elements of a work of suspense fiction: money, power, sex, race, and the haves vs. the have-nots.
ISBN:
0881467332
9780881467338
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1145939602
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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