From Crime Writer Nick Ireland:
Being of the single persuasion, I can tell you exactly what to do if you're cold and lonely in Huntsville. Take a walk on the wild side down Governors Drive to one of its elegant establishments where you'll find the cure for both cold and lonely. What do you do if you live in a super small burg like Lexington just south of the Tennessee line? There's always Minor Hill.
You can bet the dating pool is stocked with rejects that only look good after a full bottle of Fireball. Maybe that's just what happened when Christy Lynn Shelton McKee met Casey Cole White. She was 31 and already had three daughters by at least two upstanding geezers who apparently didn't include marriage in their come-on lines. She was also married at this point, but we're guessing the union was on some serious rocks for her to be dating Casey Cole White.
White lived in the nearby village of Anderson. At 24, he already had a long rap sheet, but that didn't stop tall, dark, and gruesome from latching onto Christy. If her marriage had been troubled, so were other aspects of her home life. Her youngest daughter had special needs, and joy was hard to come by during the daily humdrum. A player like our Casey must have known just how to work that to his advantage.
Then on February 1, 2008, Christy's life was over, ended by the barrel of a sawed-off shotgun. Casey told everyone who would listen that Christy had pulled the trigger herself, and no one seemed to question him. That is except Christy's kids who never believed that, despite her flaws, she would have taken what's usually called an easy way out.
The next seven years passed quickly, and Casey had a new girlfriend, but things didn't go well when he tried to kill her. They went even worse when he then went on the lam. He got 75 years with no good time. Bummer.
But Casey, being the kind of hustler he was, had a plan. A daring escape facilitated by his latest and almost geriatric, waddling squeeze saw him again free and on the run to places without extradition laws. Enter the feds who began to take a look at his past life. Pretty unfortunate for Casey with his nefarious history as a lady-killer.
It didn't take long to discover his past involvement with Christy. While her disabled child had died, her two remaining daughters wanted the answers they had never gotten fourteen years before.
Will the guys in suits be able to try Casey Cole White for two murders instead of one? At this point, we're all just placing our bets and buttering the popcorn.
