The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice
 

The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice

by David Rose

Race, injustice, and serial murder in the Deep South—Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with an investigative edge.

"The crime happens, the mob gathers. Far too often, the question is, which nigger's neck are we going to put the noose around?"—Gary Parker, former defense lawyer for Carlton Gary

Over the course of eight bloody months in the 1970s, a serial rapist... (read more)

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From award-winning Vanity Fair reporter David Rose, The Big Eddy Club, an investigative expose of race, injustice, and serial murder in the Deep South Over the course of eight bloody months in the 1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven elderly white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight years after the last murder, an African American, Carlton Gary, was convicted and sentenced to death. Though many in the city doubt his guilt, he...

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