Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder - Beverly Lowry
Category: True Crime
Narrator: Beverly Lowry
Tags: True Crime, Adults
Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta, Publisher: Books on Tape Release date: August 2, 2022 Duration: 16:34:49, The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one authors life and perception of home., In 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 mans 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
