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>> >> That was the Biloxi where Vincent and Margaret Sherry lived and worked.
That was the city Margaret dared to speak out against.
And the man at the head of the strip, the unofficial boss of the Dixie Mafia in Biloxi, was Mike Gillich Jr.
Gillich owned the Golden Nugget strip club, one of the most famous spots on the strip.
But the Golden Nugget was only a front.
Behind it Gillich ran networks of illegal gambling, drug trafficking, and prostitution stretching along the coast.
He did not need to speak loudly or boast.
He had relationships with police, city officials, and politicians.
When Margaret Sherry publicly criticized Gillich and demanded the FBI investigate his relationship with the government, she was poking a beehive that no one in Biloxi dared to touch.
But, the murder story did not begin on the streets of Biloxi.
>> >> It began more than 300 miles away inside the walls of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison.
Angola is one of the most notorious prisons in America, sitting on 18,000 acres of former slave plantation land bordered by the Mississippi River on three sides.
Inmates call it the farm, and inside the farm one man was running an entire empire.
Kirksey McCord Nix Jr.
was born in 1943, the son of a judge in Oklahoma.
Good family, good education, but Nix chose a different path.
He became a core member of the Dixie Mafia involved in a series of violent crimes across the South.
In 1972, Nix was convicted of killing Frank Corso, a grocery store manager in New Orleans during a home invasion at Corso’s house.
The attack turned into a shootout, Corso died, Corso’s wife was wounded, and one of the attackers was also seriously wounded.
Nix was sentenced to life without parole and sent to Angola.
For most inmates, a life sentence means life is over.
For Kirksey Nix, it was only the beginning.
From inside Angola, Nix built a criminal empire >> >> with the ambition of making enough money to buy his way out of prison.
He dabbled in insurance fraud and drug trafficking, but the main source of income was a bizarre scam later called the lonely hearts scam.
The mechanism was simple to the point of cruelty.
Nix and his associates inside prison placed personal ads in gay magazines across the country pretending to be lonely young men in trouble.
When someone responded, Nix or an associate would build a relationship through letters and phone calls, then tell heartbreaking stories needing money to resolve a small legal problem, needing bail money, needing money to start a new life.
Victims, usually lonely middle-aged men, sent money to addresses Nix controlled outside prison.
The scam operated most intensely from 1986 to 1989.
At its peak, it brought in an average of $600 a day.
In total, prosecutors estimated Nix collected more than $800,000.
A life prisoner made nearly a million dollars from inside prison.
To run the scam at this scale, Nix needed three things: telephones, people on the outside, and a place to hide the money.
He solved the first problem by bribing prison guards to use the prison phones.
The second problem was solved by Sherry Lara Sharp, Nix’s girlfriend, a woman from Chicago for whom Nix had provided a house in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
Sharp acted as the intermediary, forwarding calls from prison to victims, collecting the money victims sent, and most importantly, Nix had planted Sharp inside the Halat and Sherry law firm itself.
Sharp posed as a legal assistant, set up a mailbox to collect the scam money, and funneled everything into the firm’s trust account.
And the third problem, the place to hide the money, was Pete Halat.
Halat was Nix’s lawyer.
He maintained a trust account for Nix, received the scam money, and kept it inside the law firm’s legitimate financial system.
When investigators later followed the trail, they found 345 phone calls between Halat’s office and Angola prison.
345 calls.
And prison records showed Halat had visited Angola to meet Nix in person multiple times during the same period.
Money flowed from scam victims across America into the mailbox controlled by Sharp, through the law office in Biloxi, into the trust account managed by Halat.
A perfect financial pipeline operating from inside prison through the girlfriend, through the lawyer, and no one outside knew.
Until the money started disappearing.
In December 1986, Pete Halat went to see Kirksey Nix at Angola and delivered news Nix did not want to hear.
About $100,000 of Nix’s money had disappeared from the trust account at the law office.
The truth was that Halat had spent the money.
He, the lawyer entrusted with holding the money, had dipped into the funds of a Dixie Mafia boss serving life for murder.
But Halat did not tell the truth.
Instead, he pointed the finger at someone else.
He told Nix that he suspected Vincent Sherry, his former law partner and now circuit court judge, had taken the money.
Vincent Sherry, who had left the law firm to become a judge, who had no direct connection to the lonely hearts scam, who did not know that his old law office was being used to launder money for organized crime.
Halat blamed him, and Nix believed it.
Believed it because Halat was his lawyer.
Believed it because Halat was the only person he could trust on the outside.
Believed it because from inside prison, he had no way to verify.
Bobby Joe Fabian was in the room when it happened.
Fabian was another Dixie Mafia boss serving life at Angola for kidnapping and killing a state trooper.
Inside prison, Fabian and Nix were allies.
They ran the lonely hearts scam together.
Fabian witnessed the meeting between Nix and Halat, heard Halat blame Sherry, and saw Nix’s face change.
Fabian knew what would happen next.
Nix was not the type to accept losing money.
Nix wanted Vincent Sherry dead.
But Nix was not the only one who wanted the Sherrys gone.
Mike Gillich, the boss of the strip, had his own reasons.
Margaret Sherry was preparing to run for mayor of Biloxi with the single promise of cleaning up corruption and shutting down the strip.
She had publicly criticized Gillich in the press, had told people that the FBI was investigating the relationship between Gillich and city officials.
If Margaret won, Gillich’s entire illegal empire on the strip would collapse.
Margaret’s mayoral campaign was a direct threat to Gillich’s multi-million dollar business.
Two motives converged at the same address.
Nix wanted Vincent dead because he believed Vincent had taken the money.
Gillich wanted Margaret dead because she threatened to destroy everything he had built on the strip.
And both lived in the same house.
Gillich was the connecting link.
He was the bridge between Nix in prison and the outside world.
>> >> He was the one who received orders from Nix and turned them into action on the streets of Biloxi.
And when the kill order was given, Gillich was the one who found the hitman.
He hired Thomas Leslie Holcomb.
Holcomb was a ghost, former inmate, part-time carnival worker, contract killer from Clarksville, Texas.
He had no prominent violent criminal record, no clear connection to Biloxi, and did not appear on the radar of any law enforcement agency in Mississippi.
That was exactly why Gillich chose him.
An outsider.
No one knew his face, no one knew his name.
Come, kill, and disappear.
Sherry LaRue Sharp, Nix’s girlfriend, played the final role in the conspiracy chain.
Sharp delivered the weapon to Holcomb, the silenced Ruger .
22.
John Ransom, another Dixie Mafia hitman, was the one who supplied that gun to Sharp.
The weapon went from Ransom to Sharp to Holcomb.
Every link was far from the crime scene.
Every person could deny a direct connection.
A few days before the night of September 14, a witness named Legere told investigators that a tall, thin man limping on his right leg had approached him in downtown Biloxi and asked for directions to Vincent Sherry’s house.
Legere described the the appearance in detail.
Years later, when Holcomb’s photo appeared in the newspaper, another witness named Robertson confirmed that the man in the photo was the one he had seen driving a yellow Ford Fairmont near the Sherry house on the evening of September 14, 1987.
The yellow Ford, the limping man.
Small pieces that no one put together for years.
The night of September 14, 1987, Margaret Sherry was at home preparing for the next day, the day she would expose the corruption in Biloxi.
Vincent had just returned from court.
Someone came to the door.
No signs of forced entry, meaning the door was opened, perhaps because the victims knew the person who arrived, perhaps because the door was unlocked.
Holcomb walked in and carried out the murders with cold precision.
Vincent was shot multiple times in the head with the silenced Ruger .
22.
Margaret was shot separately in the rear bedroom, also multiple times in the head.
Two separate executions inside the same house.
The silencer ensured no neighbor heard anything.
Holcomb left.
The bodies lay there for 2 days.
When Biloxi police finally arrived at the scene on September 16, they faced a double murder they were completely unprepared to solve.
Local police forces in small southern towns, especially in poorer areas until the 1990s, rarely had officers with deep experience investigating murder or organized crime.
Biloxi was no exception, and the problem was not only capability, the problem was will.
In a city where the county sheriff’s office had been designated a criminal organization by the federal government only 4 years earlier, the question was not whether the police could solve the case.
The question was whether they wanted to.
The investigation hit a dead end.
Police pursued multiple directions, politics, crime, Vincent’s past as a lawyer, but none led to anyone.
Then they turned to suspecting Eric, the Sherrys’ adopted son.
No physical evidence, no clear motive, no witnesses.
But suspecting a family member was easy, safe, and did not touch anyone with power in Biloxi.
Two years passed since the night of September 14.
No one was arrested, no official suspect.
The case grew cold and seemed destined to be buried forever.
And while the Sherry family waited for justice that never came, Pete Halat, the man who had blamed his partner and ignited two murders, decided to run for mayor of Biloxi.
In 1989, he won.
The man who had indirectly caused the deaths of the city’s most respected couple now sat in the seat Margaret Sherry had once dreamed of.
That was the level of shamelessness Biloxi could tolerate.
But there was one person who never accepted the case being frozen.
Lynn Spaziano was the eldest daughter of Vincent and Margaret Sherry.
When her parents were killed, Lynn was living in Raleigh, North Carolina, more than 800 miles from Biloxi.
She received a phone call with the news and immediately flew back.
From the moment she set foot on the crime scene and saw the blood, saw the house where she grew up turned into a murder scene, Lynn knew she would not trust anyone in Biloxi to solve this.
Not because she had specific evidence of police incompetence, but because she understood Biloxi.
She grew up there.
She knew how the city worked, who held power, who protected whom, and who would be sacrificed when needed to keep everything quiet.
And when police began suspecting Eric, her adopted younger brother, Lynn could not stand it anymore.
>> >> She knew Eric was not involved.
No evidence, no motive, nothing except the laziness of an investigative agency looking for the easiest target instead of the right one.
From that point, Lynn Spaziano turned her life into a hunt for her parents’ killers.
She began spending more and more time in Biloxi, less in Raleigh with her own family.
she asked questions no one wanted to answer.
She knocked on doors no one wanted to open, and she began receiving death threats.
Not vague threats, specific threats.
The kind of threats where you know someone is watching you, knows where you are, knows what you are doing.
Lynn did not back down.
She armed herself with a .
357 Magnum and kept going.
A woman from North Carolina, not an investigator, not a lawyer, not a police officer, carrying a pistol and the rage of a daughter who had lost her parents, walking alone into the underworld of Biloxi to find the truth the entire city wanted to hide.
A friendly FBI agent in Jackson suggested she should hire a private investigator.
Lynn did.
She hired Rex Armistead, a former Mississippi Highway Patrol investigator >> >> with a reputation in law enforcement circles.
Armistead was not the private detective type for movies.
He was a practical man, methodical, and knew how to follow the money.
Armistead’s plan had three steps.
First, prove Eric innocent or conclude with certainty that Eric was guilty.
Second, investigate the connection between the murders and Pete Halat.
Third, investigate Gerald Blessey, Margaret’s political opponent.
Armistead started with step one and quickly eliminated Eric.
Nothing linked the adopted son to the murders.
Then he moved to step two.
>> >> And that was when everything began to break open.
Armistead followed the financial trail of the Halat and Sherry law firm.
He talked to people who had worked at the law office, secretaries, assistants, people who knew the money flowing through their hands every day, but had never been asked about it.
One law office secretary, the one who kept the books, revealed to Armistead that Kirksey Nix was making up to $28,000 a year in just one account the law firm was managing.
$28,000 from a life prisoner.
Armistead pulled more threads and discovered 345 phone calls between Halat’s office and Angola prison.
345 calls, not ordinary lawyer-client calls.
No case needed 345 calls between a small law office in Biloxi and a prison in Louisiana.
Prison records also showed Halat had visited Angola to meet Nix in person multiple times.
Armistead began to see the big picture.
Scam money flowed into the law office.
Halat managed the money.
The money disappeared.
Halat blamed Sherry.
Sherry was killed.
But Armistead needed someone inside to confirm.
He needed someone who knew the entire story from Nix’s side and was willing to talk.
At that moment, the FBI decided to step in.
In 1989, two years after the murders, when the local investigation had completely stalled, the FBI opened a federal investigation.
Special Agent Keith Bell was assigned to the case.
Bell was the kind of investigator this case needed, patient, detail-oriented, and willing to spend as many years as necessary.
He did not come to Biloxi looking for a quick solution.
He came to peel back every layer of a conspiracy he knew would take years to fully understand.
The FBI received a tip that investigators needed to interview a prisoner hundreds of miles from Biloxi.
The trail led straight to Angola.
And at Angola, one man was waiting for the chance to talk, Bobby Joe Fabian.
Fabian was a Dixie Mafia inmate serving life at Angola for kidnapping and killing a state trooper.
Inside prison, he had been a close ally of Nix.
They ran the lonely hearts scam together.
Fabian was present at the meeting when Halat blamed Sherry.
He knew who ordered the killings.
He knew why.
He knew where the money went.
He knew everything.
And he wanted to talk.
Not because of conscience.
Fabian was not the type to have a conscience.
But because Nix had become too reckless.
Nix had begun allowing his girlfriend Sharp to bring marijuana into Angola under the guise of being a legal assistant from Hall and Associates office.
Nix was growing increasingly careless and Fabian knew that carelessness would bring everyone down with him.
Fabian told Armistead that Nix was the one who had directed a cash scam from inside prison later known as the lonely hearts scam.
Fabian revealed that Nix had planted a full-time associate inside the Hall and Sherry firm to help run the scam.
And Fabian told WLBT in an interview that the Sherrys were killed because of an order placed by Pete Hall and Kersey Nix.
For the first time in 2 years, the case had a clear direction, not speculation, not rumor, a direct witness, someone who was in the room when the kill order was discussed had laid out the entire chain of events leading to the deaths of Vincent and Margaret Sherry.
Fabian became the most important witness in the history of the case.
And he knew the price.
From inside Angola where Nix still controlled nearly everything, Fabian was the man who had betrayed the boss.
In 1990, federal agents moved Fabian out of Angola.
The official reason was humanitarian because he had helped break the Sherry case and was under threat to his life inside the Louisiana prison.
Fabian was later transferred to the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl.
He had to pay with his safety to tell the truth, but his truth had broken the wall of silence surrounding the Sherry case for 2 years.
Now the FBI had a witness.
Armistead had the financial trail.
Lin De Zito had the persistence.
On September 30, 1991, 4 years and 16 days after the murders, the Sherry case finally went to trial for the first time.
The trial was held in Hattiesburg, Mississippi about 60 miles northwest of Biloxi with Judge Charles Pickering presiding.
This was a federal trial, not state, because the charges were built on federal law regarding wire fraud, conspiracy, and travel in aid of murder for hire.
Four defendants sat before the jury, Kirksey McCord Nix Jr.
, Mike Gillich Jr.
, Sherry LaRa Sharp, and John Ransom.
Halat was not among them, not yet.
The lead prosecutor was Peter Hickman Barrett, an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi.
Barrett was not the first choice.
FBI agent Keith Bell later said that some prosecutors had been reluctant to take the case.
The Sherry case was too complex, too many layers, too many characters, and too tied to political power in Biloxi.
Touching this case meant touching the Dixie Mafia, touching a former mayor, touching a corruption network stretching from Angola prison to Biloxi City Hall.
Barrett did not hesitate.
He studied the investigative files at the FBI office every day for weeks, reading hundreds of interviews, >> >> following every financial thread, and building the case from the foundation that Fabian, Armistead, and Bell had provided.
Bell later said he credited Barrett for the entire success of the prosecution.
He stepped up when others did not dare.
The trial lasted many weeks.
Evidence was presented layer by layer.
The lonely hearts scam, the money flowing through the law office, the 3:45 calls between Halat and Angola, Sharp’s role in collecting money and delivering the weapon, Gillich’s role in hiring the hitman, and Ransom’s role in supplying the gun.
The jury heard the entire conspiracy chain from beginning to end.
The result was convictions for all four.
Nix and Gillich were convicted of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and travel in aid of murder for hire, directly linking them to the Sherry murders.
Sharp and Ransom were convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy.
That was a victory, but not a complete victory, because at the 1991 trial, Gillich did something no one expected.
He protected Pete Halat.
Gillich asserted before the jury that Halat had nothing to do with the gay scam or the murders.
Halat was not prosecuted.
Halat was not called to testify.
Halat, the man who had embezzled Nix’s money, blamed Sherry, and indirectly caused two deaths, remained free.
And he was still the former mayor of Biloxi with his reputation officially intact.
He continued to deny any involvement.
He told Biloxi TV that he had absolutely nothing to do with the 1987 murders of Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret.
He said it with a straight face, steady voice, like an innocent man who had been wronged.
But from inside prison, Kirksey Nix did not sit still.
After the 1991 trial, Nix continued scheming right from his cell.
He was caught on tape calling his girlfriend, urging her to pay a witness at the trial to change his testimony.
Nix was trying to sabotage the very case that had convicted him from inside prison by telephone as if he were still running his empire.
That shamelessness did not escape the FBI’s notice.
And then, in 1994, the final piece fell into place.
Mike Gillich flipped.
The boss of the strip, who had protected Halat at the 1991 trial, decided to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
Gillich’s reason was not conscience.
He was serving a heavy sentence.
>> >> His health was declining, and he calculated that cooperating was the only path to a reduced sentence.
And when Gillich began to talk, he told everything.
Gillich revealed two things the 1991 trial had not been able to prove.
First, the person who actually killed the Sherrys was not John Ransom as many had suspected.
The person who pulled the trigger was Thomas Leslie Holcomb, the contract killer from Texas that Gillich had personally hired.
Holcomb, the ghost who had flown completely under the radar of every investigator for 7 years.
Second, Pete Halat was fully involved.
Gillich testified that Halat not only knew about the scam but was the central link connecting Nix in prison to the outside world.
Halat had embezzled the money, blamed Sherry, and when Nix ordered the killings, Halat knew it would happen.
>> >> Gillich’s testimony shattered Halat’s last layer of protection.
In 1991, Gillich had lied to shield Halat.
In 1994, Gillich told the truth to save himself, and that truth was enough for a federal grand jury to act.
On October 23, 1996, 9 years after the murders, Pete Halat was indicted on federal charges related to his involvement in the Sherry murders.
The indictment was not small, 52 counts.
Indicted along with Halat were Kirksey Nix, Thomas Leslie Holcomb, and Sherry Lara Sharp.
This was the second trial, but in essence, this was the first real trial that brought all the main links before justice.
The 1991 trial had convicted Nix and Gillich, but left out Halat and Holcomb.
The 1997 trial targeted those two men, the one who had ignited it and the one who had pulled the trigger.
The federal investigation into the Sherry murders lasted a total of 8 years, from 1989 when the FBI stepped in until 1997 when the final trial took place.
8 years for Agent Bell, Prosecutor Barrett, and their team to peel back every layer of the conspiracy, find witnesses, protect witnesses, build the file, and overcome every legal obstacle the defense lawyers erected.
The 1997 trial began with stronger evidence than anything the 1991 trial had ever had.
Gillich’s testimony, evidence of the 345 calls, financial records, witness Robertson confirming that Holcomb’s photo was the man he saw driving the yellow Ford Fairmont near the Sherry house on the night of September 14, 1987.
Holcomb’s former cellmates testifying that Holcomb had admitted to killing the Sherrys.
And the thread that tied it all together was Gillich, the boss who had decided that the truth was his only path to survival.
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The jury sat listening for weeks to testimony, evidence, and arguments from both sides.
After a lengthy trial, the jury began deliberating on July 11th, 1997.
Pete Halat, former mayor of Biloxi, former law partner of Vincent Sherry, the man who had delivered the eulogy at the funeral and called the victims his family, was convicted of conspiracy to commit extortion, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The jury did not believe his denials.
The 345 calls to Angola, the records of meetings with Nixon prison, the $100,000 that disappeared, and Gillich’s testimony had painted a picture too clear for any defense to erase.
Halat was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison.
18 years.
The man who had once run Biloxi as mayor now walked into federal prison as a criminal.
And even after being convicted, even after being led out of the courtroom in handcuffs, Halat still did not admit it.
He told WLOX TV that he had absolutely nothing to do with the murder conspiracy.
He said it in 1987 at the funeral.
He said it in 1989 when running for mayor.
He said it in 1997 when convicted.
Halat maintained his innocence until the day he was released from federal custody in 2013, completing his sentence.
Thomas Leslie Holcomb, the contract killer from Texas, the ghost who had slipped through every investigation for nearly a decade, was convicted of carrying out the murder for hire and sentenced to life.
Holcomb, former inmate, part-time carnival worker, the man who had walked into the house at 203 Hickory Hill Circle on the night of September 14, 1987, shot Vincent Sherry and Margaret Sherry multiple times in the head with a silenced Ruger .
22, then left as if nothing had happened.
He never left prison.
Holcomb died in federal prison in 2005, taking any remaining secrets to the grave.
Kirksey McCord Nix Jr.
, the Dixie Mafia boss who had ordered the killings from inside Angola prison, was convicted of additional charges of extortion, conspiracy to violate the extortion statute, fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
The new sentences stacked on top of the life sentence he was already serving.
Nix is still in federal prison today.
He has been behind bars since 1972, more than half a century.
Mike Gillich Jr.
, the boss of the strip, the man who hired Holcomb, the man who protected Halat at the 1991 trial, then flipped in 1994, never saw real freedom again.
He died of cancer in 2012.
Sherry LaRue Sharp, Nix’s girlfriend, the one who had been planted inside the law office to run the scam, and who had delivered the weapon to Holcomb, was convicted in both trials.
She was released from federal prison in 2002.
Sharp’s daughter later said that when she was little, she used to think Nix was a kind man because he had bought a house for their family in Ocean Springs.
Then, when the trials came, when people started calling her mother the Sherry killers, reality hit.
Bobby Joe Fabian, the witness who had broken the silence and connected the entire conspiracy chain, was transferred from Louisiana to the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl for humanitarian reasons.
Mississippi agreed to accept Fabian because he had helped break the Sherry case and he was under threat to his life inside the Louisiana prison system where Nix’s reach could still touch him.
Fabian nearly died of a heart attack inside federal prison.
He paid with his health and safety to tell the truth.
But amid all the sentences and verdicts, there is a legal paradox that many people do not know.
Federal prosecutors won convictions for extortion, fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and murder for hire.
But none of the defendants was ever formally prosecuted for murder under Mississippi state law.
No one was directly charged with pulling the trigger inside the Sherry house under the state criminal justice system.
All the convictions were based on federal law and federal law handles conspiracy and extortion, not the act of murder itself.
That means as a matter of legal technicality, the murders of Vincent and Margaret Sherry have still not been officially solved.
The case file remains open.
That is the strange reality of the American justice system.
Where you can be convicted of conspiring to kill someone, convicted of hiring someone to kill someone, but the actual murder is still listed as unsolved.
But for the Sherry family, for Lynn Esposito, those convictions were enough.
Not perfect, not ideal, but enough.
She had spent 10 years of her life from 1987 to 1997 ensuring that the people who killed her parents paid the price.
She had left her family in North Carolina, armed herself, hired a private investigator, faced death threats, knocked on doors no one wanted to open, and asked the questions the entire city wanted her to stop asking.
It was Lynn’s persistence, together with FBI agent Keith Bell, that was the driving force that pushed the case forward when everything else stood still.
The Sherry case became one of the most important organized crime prosecutions in Mississippi history.
It is regarded as vindication for Margaret Sherry’s struggle to free Biloxi from vice and corruption.
Margaret died before she could expose the truth she had gathered.
But in the end, that truth was still exposed, not by her, but by her daughter, by the FBI, by courageous prosecutors, and by the criminals themselves betraying one another.
In 1994, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes published a book Mississippi Mud, Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia, chronicling the entire case from the night of the murders to Lynn Sposito’s decade-long search.
The book became a finalist for the 1995 Edgar Award in the true crime category and brought the Sherry case into national consciousness.
The case has also been featured in numerous true crime television programs, podcasts, and documentary series, ensuring that the names Vincent and Margaret Sherry will not be forgotten.
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On the night of September 14, 1987, Margaret Sherry sat in the house at 203 Hickory Hill Circle preparing for the next day.
She never had that next day.
Vincent Sherry died because of money he never touched.
>> >> Margaret Sherry died because she dared to speak out.
The man who blamed them became mayor.
The hit man disappeared for nearly a decade, and their eldest daughter spent 10 years of her life arming herself with a .
357 Magnum and the rage of a daughter who had lost her parents to ensure that the truth, though late, was still exposed.
The case stayed frozen for nearly a decade.
One daughter kept the flame alive.
One prisoner broke the silence.
And in 1997, 12 jurors said what should have been said in 1987, “Guilty”.
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