Gwendolyn Ann Gwen Turnbough

In the quiet suburbs of Stone Mountain, Georgia, the life of Gwendolyn Ann Gwen Turnbough, a 40-year-old Black woman, came to a tragic and violent end on June 5, 1985. She was a career woman, a mother, and a person who, in the face of escalating terror, had sought to protect herself and her children. Her death was not a random act of violence but the final, brutal chapter in a long history of domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of her ex-husband, Joel Grimmette.

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