{"product_id":"milledgevilles-sesquicentennial-murders-susan-lindsley-9781737762058","title":"Milledgeville's Sesquicentennial Murders","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilledgeville's Sesquicentennial Murders tackles the story of Marion Stembridge, a white man charged with murder of a black teenage girl in 1949, but convicted of manslaughter by an all-white, all-male jury, and sentenced to prison. He never served a day in any jail. A genius suffering from mental illness, he used \"ole time Southern conniving\" to have a local judge cancel the decisions of the Georgia Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the time the case was travelling through higher courts, the Internal Revenue Service began to investigate his tax returns. Stembridge informed the two agents they would be $10,000 better off each if they went away. He was to be sentenced for attempted bribery on May 4, 1953. On May 2, while his home town, the former capital of Georgia, Milledgeville, began to celebrate a weeklong party in honor of it's founding 150 years before, Stembridge shot and killed two attorneys, one his own and the other his wife's divorce attorney. The killings made news nation-wide, and newspapers gave the story higher recognition than they gave the Kentucky Derby upset of Native Dancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e​\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book lays to bed the rumors spread for seventy years and still moving through Milledgeville. The author details the previously unknown legal shenanigans he used, and his desperation, to stay out of jail. The community held its birthday party after funerals delayed the festivities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Lindsley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1737762056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781737762058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Max Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.53d","brand":"Susan Lindsley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44133124243711,"sku":"9781737762058","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9ebe38b-b139-4768-9a23-604430bc92a0.jpg?v=1687484224","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/milledgevilles-sesquicentennial-murders-susan-lindsley-9781737762058","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}