The Murder of David "Stringbean" Akeman
I am surprised that I have never blogged this case as it is one of the first stories I remember seeing when I started watching shows and reading things that involved true crimes decades ago. That being said the part I remembered the most was the fact that the perpetrators had apparently not found all the money they were expecting to find in the home and instead the money was found more than two decades later hidden in the wall of the home. David “Stringbean” Akeman was a man well known in the country music community. At the time of his murder in 1973 he was a regular on the popular television series “Hee Haw” but he had been around for decades. He had obtained his name because while he was an accomplished musician, known for his “old fashioned” style of banjo picking, he was also a comedian. He began going on stage dressed in a long night shirt with a pair of shorts that were held by a belt just above his knees. This made it appear that he had an especially lo...