Sensimilla

"This is no simple tale. Ultimately it is even a mystery. The reader will be taken through the trial, where he will have the same information that the writer had.

On the face of it, it would seem that when a father, thirty-seven, his son, sixteen, and his nephew, seventeen, drove to a farm south of Heartfield, Tennessee, to steal marijuana; they would steal it or not steal it.

But this didn't happen. All three were killed; this was no simple robbery. Nor even simple murders.

Four people were charged with the murders. Eventually, only one of them went to trial. Gary Drew, a local man, and a past football hero, was tried for the murders of the two teenagers, including aiding and abetting. The law had been changed recently and now carried the same sentence as first degree murder. When the jurors learned their verdict meant a life sentence, they cried, and came back to the judge. They thought they were giving Drew a lighter sentence when they charged him with aiding and abetting, rather than murder. The judge called a mistrial.

Eventually, there was a plea bargain."