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DAVID ROSE
VIOLATION
JUSTICE, RACE AND SERIAL MURDER IN THE DEEP SOUTH
For my mother, Susan, who gave me a sense of historyAnd my father, Michael, who taught me the meaning of justice
CONTENTS
12 Southern Justice and the Stocking Stranglings
Strangling Crime Scenes
1 Ferne Jackson (17th Street)
2 Florence Scheible (Dimon Street/Eberhart Avenue)
3 Jean Dimenstein (21st Street)
4 Martha Thurmond (Marion Street)
5 Kathleen Woodruff (Buena Vista Road)
6 Ruth Schwob (Carter Avenue)
7 Mildred Borom (Forest Avenue)
8 Janet Cofer (Steam Mill Road)
9 Callye East’s house – Henry Sanderson’s gun stolen (Eberhart Avenue)
10 Gertrude Miller – survived first attack by strangler (Hood Street)
Other Locations
11 Historic District
12 Big Eddy Club
13 Lynching of Teasy McElhaney 1912
14 Lynching of Simon Adams 1900
15 Carlton Gary’s apartment 1977–79
16 Fort Benning
17 Area of Land family holdings 1900–20
18 G.W. Ashburn murdered 1868
19 Dr Thomas H. Brewer murdered 1956
Way down in Columbus, Georgia
Want to be back in Tennessee
Way down in Columbus Stockade
Friends have turned their backs on me.
Last night as I lay sleeping
I was dreaming you were in my arms
Then I found I was mistaken
I was peeping through the bars.
‘Columbus Stockade Blues’ (traditional)
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