Jimmy Dale Harvey was a 27-year-old White man, and on October 25, 1988, his life ended in rural Missouri, tied to a quiet farm outside Mooresville that, for a time, swallowed men without anyone noticing they were gone.
The farm belonged to Ray and Faye Copeland, an elderly couple who worked the back roads and cattle yards with a practiced, predatory patience. Authorities later described a routine that looked almost ordinary at first: they’d take in drifters and down-on-their-luck labor
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