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52- On The Case: The Voodoo Reverend of Alabama

investigation:··31 August 2026·42 min

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Scoot takes us on a journey through the crimes of Reverend Willie Maxwell, a self-ordained preacher suspected of murdering five family members to collect life insurance payouts. But rumors of voodoo overshadowed the crimes. His crimes never being proven, eventually lead to his death at his stepdaughters funeral. https://whatsnonfiction.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/harper-lees-abandoned-work-a-crime-spree-and-a-mysterious-reverend-in-the-deep-south/https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/09/examining-the-book-harper-lee-never-wrote/https://whatsnonfiction.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/harper-lees-abandoned-work-a-crime-spree-and-a-mysterious-reverend-in-the-deep-south/https://medium.com/thehighhorse/the-reverend-and-the-writer-df5dba8e5e22https://www.csmonitor.com/Arts-Culture/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/0320/More-Harper-Lee-puzzles-another-lost-book-and-an-investigation-closedhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/04/and-the-missing-briefcase-the-real-story-behind-harper-lees-lost-true-bookhttps://nypost.com/2015/09/09/the-story-behind-harper-lees-lost-true-crime-novel/https://heathervoight.com/tag/tom-radney/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/books/furious-hours-casey-cep-harper-lee.htmlhttps://medium.com/the-book-cafe/book-review-furious-hours-murder-fraud-and-the-last-trial-of-harper-lee-by-casey-cep-e2f542c13cf7