True Crime
Furious Hours
Casey Cep
6 min read 3 key ideasPremium
A real Southern-gothic crime — a serial insurance killer and a courtroom vigilante — and the tale of why Harper Lee could never turn it into her second book.
The story of an Alabama preacher accused of killing several family members for insurance money, the man who shot him at the funeral, and Harper Lee's years-long, unfinished attempt to write about the case.
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