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Deer Creek Drive
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The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one authors life and perception of home.Mix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspicious town, a sensational trial with colorful lawyers, and a punishment that didnt fit the crime, and you have the best of southern gothic fiction. But the very best part is that the story is true. John GrishamIn 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didnt recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man''s presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free. In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowrywho was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons hometells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi.
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| Author | Lowry, Beverly |
|---|---|
| ISBN-13 | 9781984898364 |
| Item Height | 2.2 |
| Item Length | 13.1 |
| Item Width | 20.3 |
| Publisher | Random House International |
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