Murder in Coweta County
Some of you may remember a television movie back in 1983 with this title. It starred Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith. One of the funny things about that movie is that Andy Griffith, someone who was known first by “wholesome” television from the series carrying his name and later as the lawyer “Matlock” played the “bad guy” here while Johnny Cash, known for his rebelness (is that a word? Spell check does not think so.), was the “good guy.” One of the strange things about this case is that while we have a victim, and a perpetrator was brought to justice, and I can tell you that the perpetrator, John Wallace was executed on November 3, 1950, the best that I can tell you is that the victim, William “Wilson” Turner, was murdered in April of 1948. John Wallace has been described as a “wealthy landowner” in Meriwether County Georgia in 1948. By most accounts despite anyone else who may or may not have held any power title, it was Wallace who ran and controlled things ...