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It was the summer of 1961. The courtroom that normally saw a few traffic violation and property theft cases heaved under the weight of the murder trial. A little girl was dead. She turned up missing one year ago. Fliers, newspaper articles, notices on the nightly news and radio announcements blanketed Memphis the first two months the girl was missing. "She went to play with a friend around 5 o'clock and never came home." "She was seen talking to an old man." "I saw her down by the lake. She was up on the railroad tracks. I saw her out by the old barn up by Lenox's. You know, the one where the ghost is." The stories are what pushed life into the missing girl's dilemma. Not law enforcement. Not the girl's parents. Not the town's religious leaders. Not the letters to city council from concerned parents and grandparents. Stories. Gossip. Rumors. They became the very fiber of what would be discovered about the girl's affluent beginnings, why she turned up missing and what became of her.
Approximate Word count = 649
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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