Tag: Meriweather County

• Murder in Coweta County

  

  Unknown to many, Wallace wa not the only prisoner to die that November day. Jimmie Richardson also had a date with the State Electrician, but even contemorary accounts rarely mention him. The reasons are depressingly simple. Convicted in June, 1950 of murdering his ex-partner, Richardson was African-American, poor and lacked the social status and expensive…

  CrimeScribe

  November 3, 2022

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

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