ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

All the material in this book, except for my own observations, is derived from official court records, police reports, and interviews with the persons directly concerned with the case. Because these “collaborators” are identified within the text, I will not name them here; however, I want to express my gratitude for their patient cooperation. Two friends, Edith Walker and Bonnie Butler, I do name because they personally assisted me and made my task possible. Also, I would like to single out a few people whose contributions to my work were very specific: Dr. David Wolfe, Forensic Anthropologist, Kentucky Justice Cabinet; Supervisory Special Agent James Huggins, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Major Jerry Lovitt, Commander—East Branch, Kentucky State Police, and his men; Larry Webster, whose assistance in legal matters was invaluable; Harry M. Caudill, author of Night Comes to the Cumberlands; Mike Sager, free-lance journalist; Lee Mueller, Eastern Kentucky Bureau Chief of the Lexington Herald Leader; Richard Foley, my colleague at Cumberland College; and finally, the hardworking journalists from the Appalachian News Express and the Williamson Daily News, whose reporting helped me especially in the writing of the final chapters.

Aphrodite Jones
Williamsburg, Kentucky
September, 1992