Ep 128 Moonshine Over Georgia: A Novel Based on Actual Events by Chris Skates

 

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(Other books by Chris Skates: The Rain, The Tower, and Showdown at the Beanstalk-Stories of an Overcomer)

MOONSHINE STILL—Federal and state revenue agents look over the huge moonshine distillery, valued at $15,000, that they seized in a barn behind a swank residence in a suburban section north of Buckhead near Atlanta. The agents also confiscated 1,300 gallons of moonshine liquor valued at $13,000 and arrested four men and a woman. 

Wilson Turner's family at trial

                                          

Wilson Turner- murder victim

SOURCES

Chris Skates, Moonshine Over Georgia: A Novel Based on Actual Events, June 2023.

High Court Rules Wallace to Die, Columbus Ledger, Jan 12, 1949.

Kimberly Brigance, Clarke Otten & Michael Hitt, Moonshiners brought 'White Lightning' down 'Thunder Road', RoughDraft- Atlanta, May 19, 2011.

Margaret Ann Barnes, Murder in Coweta County, Pelican Publishing, 1977.

Moonshine, Speakeasies, and Blind Tigers: Georgia's 'Secret' Drinking History, Explore Georgia, March 2025.

Murder in Coweta County (film), 1983.

Revenue Agents, Department of Revenue, Georgia, March 2025.

Wallace will take stand to tell how Turner met death, Valdosta Daily Times, June 16, 1948.

Wallace plans to appeal death sentence, Atlanta Journal, June 19, 1948. 

Wallace must die in chair, Board Rules, Atlanta Constitution, April 19, 1949.

Wallace died declaring innocence, Atlanta Constitution, Nov. 4, 1950.