A Dark and Bloody Ground PDF
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Kentucky never more deserved its Indian appellation A Dark and Bloody
Ground than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe
Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985.
Acker's own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for
his college-age daughter Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned
by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor in Fleming-Neon. Three men had
somehow managed to breach Dr. Acker's alarm and security systems and
make off with a substantial amount of the cash that he had stashed away
in a safe over his lifetime. The killers - part of a three-man,
two-woman gang of the sort not seen since the Barkers - stopped counting
the moldy bills when they reached $1.9 million. They found that all
that cash came in handy shortly afterwards when they were caught and
decided to lure Kentucky's most flamboyant lawyer, the celebrated Lester
Burns, into representing them. And caught they were, because they
refused to lay low, as advised by the gang's most crafty and unlikely
member, Sherry Sheets Pelfrey Wong Hodge. Sherry, a former prison guard,
had hooked up with chronic criminal Benny Hodge and begun a
relationship based on love, credit card scams, and ingenious robberies
that kept them comfortably in the middle class. Focusing on Sherry and
Benny's bizarre relationship and ten-year crime spree, which had its
roots in the Appalachia that bred them and the new South where they
blazed their trail, Darcy O'Brien delivers a work of fascinating
psychopathology.
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