Willie Dotson

In the autumn of 2007, the city of Memphis was grappling with a surge in violence, and on October 10th, another life was tragically cut short. Willie Dotson, a 42-year-old man, became another statistic in the city's growing list of homicides. In the late morning, at approximately 10:42 a.m., Memphis police were called to a scene near Sledge Avenue where Dotson's body had been discovered.

The initial investigation into Dotson's death was met with challenges that would persist for years to ...