Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard

by Lovejoy Boteler

Overview

The true story of a kidnapper's calamitous criminal life as told by the man he abducted

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496830722
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	08/10/2020
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Lovejoy Boteler spent his early years on Riverdale Farms in Grenada County. He worked for the Mississippi legislature, as a deck hand on the Mississippi River, and in a rodeo in Colorado. Boteler has also taught construction technology and instrumental music in public schools. He builds custom furniture.

Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

1 Jackson 3

2 Newport 7

3 Trouble 22

4 Mary Young 28

5 Turning a Cup 32

6 The Burning 35

7 The Running 46

8 The Trial 66

9 Parch man 73

10 Down in the Swamp 82

11 The Long Escape: Part I 96

12 The Long Escape: Part II 107

13 Maximum Security 122

14 The Cotton Field 136

15 Riverdale Farms 146

16 On the Road 152

17 Memphis 158

18 Newport 165

19 Vitalis 181

20 Shaw's Store 186

Afterword 191

People of Crooked Snake 197

Acknowledgments 201

Bibliography and References 203