The telephone rang at two-thirty in the morning. Clients often called Tom Radney’s home, so the lawyer knew right away why Reverend Willie Maxwell was on the phone at that hour. This was the first time, but it would not be the only time that the Alabama preacher called Radney after being accused of murder.
Maxwell’s wife had been found beaten to death in her car. Two years later, his brother’s dead body was found on the side of a local highway. Then his second wife was found dead in her car. Four years passed, then his twenty-three-year-old nephew was found dead in his car. Finally, on June 11, 1977, seven years after that late-night phone call, a fifth relative, Maxwell’s step-daughter, was found dead under one of the front wheels of his car. His family was prone to automobile accidents, and the reverend was partial to taking out mail-order insurance policies in their names.
No comments:
Post a Comment