A book review from a reader:
Early Graves by Thomas H. Cook is a riveting ride of gory crime, much of which takes place in nearby Ft. Payne. After lightly touching on the childhoods of Judith Ann Neelley and her husband Alvin, the book takes the reader from the couple's criminal crusade against a Georgia juvenile home through the murder/kidnapping convictions of the sinister pair.
The book was published in 1990, so it doesn't cover the death of Alvin in a Georgia prison 15 years later or Alabama governor Fob James' commutation of Judy's death sentence 20 years ago. What it does cover will leave you to decide if Alvin or Judy orchestrated the murders of two young woman and if justice was served in their cases.
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