William Obediah 'Obe' Spencer, a 27-year-old grocery store executive from Memphis, Tennessee, was tragically murdered on May 29, 1923. His death was the result of a violent attack by an assailant who shot him with a pistol while he was with his date, schoolteacher Laura Wheaton Johnson, in their car. Johnson survived the attack and provided crucial information to the police, but unfortunately, Spencer did not.
The investigation into Spencer's murder revealed that the attacker, later ident
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