In a secluded area of a new housing development in Bibb County, Georgia, a tragic and calculated crime unfolded on August 31, 1974, ending the lives of 38-year-old Joseph Ronald Akins and his new wife, 29-year-old Juanita Knight Akins. The couple, who had been married for only twenty days, were brutally murdered by close-range shotgun blasts. The investigation that followed would unravel a sinister plot orchestrated by Joseph Akins' former wife, Rebecca Akins Smith Machetti.
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