This is the first I’ve ever heard of this particular case… But the outcome is perfect.
check out the movie on this with Brian Denehey - it very good and it’s on YouTube. Very accurate and faithful to the book.
Sometime look the movie up ‘In Broad Daylight’ with Brian Dennehy. It’s a pretty accurate portrayal of what went down. Good movie.
Sorry, didn’t see all the other same responses... just got to your comment.
In the mid-80s I went on a tour of the South with a lit professor, who was born in Smith County Missippi and did his course-work at Ol' Miss.
His beat-old Caddy broke down on us in Russellville, Arkansas, and there we sat at a stale motel, a couple ruffed-up near-alkies with a half-bottle of Tanqueray and about $100 between us.
My friend, always resourceful, made a couple calls and reached the gentleman who had recently published ONE of the books about this bully-boy, apparently one of the best, and the gent picked us up and took us to a roadhouse just over the county line.
He didn't break a lot of fresh news, but he knew the material and it made for a damned interesting evening.
As far as I can recall--for some reason it isn't very clear, lol, he was pretty certain the kill shot came the church bell tower. But it was a long time ago, as I say...
They needed a guy with an eagle-eye like you in that little hole-in-the-wall town.