>>>Story contradicts widely reported story that mother died when he was 12.>>>
This story is incorrect in the date she died. He is going by an obit of someone named Patricia Karr (not by McCrary), it would not have been put in the paper that way. She died in the 1980 range.
:shrug:
Follow the link. It's direct from a recent UPI release, not a newspaper (doesn't mean it's correct).
Since it was just release on the UPI website, I don't know if it appeared in any newspaper at the time I posted.