Carl Alex

Murdered
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On January 4, 1922, Deputy Sheriff Carl Alex Brill of the Mobile County Sheriff's Office in Alabama was fatally ambushed shortly after he and two fellow deputies dismantled a liquor still near Calvert, approximately 40 miles north of Mobile. The owner of the still was apprehended, charged with Brill's murder, and subsequently convicted. Initially sentenced to death, the perpetrator's sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment, and he was paroled in 1940.

Born on January 29, 1882, ...Read More
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    Victim Details

    Carl Alex

    Male

    White / Caucasian

    Mobile

    AL

    1922-01-04

    39

    Carl

    Alex

    Yes

    11/22/2024

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