Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas (American Folklore Social Memorial) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas (American Folklore Social Memorial) Book

On a long dark road in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck one summer night in 1998. The brutal modern-day lynching stunned people across America and left everyone at a loss to explain how such a heinous crime could possibly happen in our more racially enlightened times. Many eventually found an answer in the fact that two of the three men convicted of the murder had ties to the white supremacist Confederate Knights of America. In the ex-convict ringleader, Bill King, whose body was covered in racist and satanic tattoos, people saw the ultimate monster, someone so inhuman that his crime could be easily explained as the act of a racist psychopath. Few, if any, asked or cared what long dark road of life experiences had turned Bill King into someone read more...
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