Jody Suzanne Ford

Murdered
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On April 4, 1977, Jody Suzanne Ford, a 41-year-old transgender woman and owner of Ms. Sid's Coiffures in Birmingham's Five Points South, was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Vestavia Motor Lodge in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. The incident began earlier that evening outside the Brookwood Village cinema, where Ford and her former wife, Wanda, encountered Larry Maddox, the 26-year-old manager of the motel. An argument ensued, during which Maddox directed anti-gay slurs at Ford. Incensed, Ford pu ...Read More
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    Victim Details

    Jody Suzanne Ford

    Female

    Birmingham

    AL

    1977-04-04

    41

    Jody

    Suzanne Ford

    Substantiated

    11/23/2024

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    07/30/2024
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    11/23/2023
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    04/16/2023
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