Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781638085454)

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.

Author: Beverly Lowry
ISBN-10: 1638085455
ISBN-13: 9781638085454
Publisher: Center Point
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2022
Pages: 500
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.83w x 1.22d
Large Print