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"During an eight-month period in 1977 and 1978, the city of Columbus, Georgia, was terrorized by a mysterious serial killer who raped and ritualistically strangled seven elderly women in one of the community's finer neighborhoods. Despite intensive efforts on the part of police the Stocking Strangler, as he came to be known, managed to elude capture. After the last murder in April 1978, the case went cold. In the spring of 1984, a series of fortuitous events connected to an unrelated murder and a stolen pistol led to the capture of Carlton Gary, who had recently escaped from a South Carolina prison. Following a dramatic trial in August 1986, Gary was convicted of three of the seven Columbus murders and sentenced to death, a penalty that would not be carried out until March 2018. This convoluted tale of crime and punishment is punctuated by dramatic and unexpected twists and turns including issues of race, alleged conspiracy and misconduct on the part of the police and the judiciary, a second serial killer active in Columbus during the time of the Strangler murders, the Ku Klux Klan, errors in DNA analysis, and a vigorous and prolonged struggle by attorneys and death penalty opponents who believed in Gary's innocence"--

Fifty years after the end of the Civil War, William Joseph Simmons, a failed Methodist minister, formed a fraternal order that he called The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Organized primarily as a money-making scheme, it shared little but its name with the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction Era. This new Klan became, for a brief period of time in the mid-1920s, one of America's most powerful social and political organizations. While often using intimidation and violence against its foes, the Klan was responsible for the election of supportive politicians at all levels of government. Following a disastrous attempt to influence the presidential election of 1924, and with increasing public awareness of the Klan's corrupt and violent nature, the order faltered, becoming a mere wisp of its former self by 1930

Prologue -- There are no strangers in Valdosta -- She just disappeared -- Another missing person -- The other victims -- Three thousand and seven days -- The buried box -- A phone call at 3:30a.m. -- The man from Summerville -- The state reveals its evidence -- Waiting for the other shoe to drop -- A sex crime -- Last-minute things -- The trial- day 1 and 2:voir dire -- The trial- day 3:sworn witness -- The trial- day 4: the state builds its case -- The trial- day 5: a locksmith and a deaf-and-mute hairdresser -- The trial- day 6: the state's big witness -- The trial- day 7: Foxy testifies -- The trial-day 8(part 1): Keller testifies -- The trial- day 8(part 2): closing arguments -- The trial-day 9: a verdict -- Aftermath -- a bond hearing and a lawsuit -- The labyrinth of appeals -- Setbacks and a friendly judge -- Freedom and a firestorm -- The second life of Keller Wilcox -- The end of the road -- The long years -- Wilcox confesses? -- Epilogue:karma.