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Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta (Large Print Edition)

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta (Large Print Edition)

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Series: Platinum Nonfiction

CriminologyRegional: SouthTrue Crime

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ISBN10: 1638085455
ISBN13: 9781638085454
Publisher: Center Point
Published: Dec 1 2022
Pages: 584
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.22 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.84
Language: English
In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left face down in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn't recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free.

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