In early August of 2016, Paula Hopkins, a 44-year-old woman from the rural community of Clara in Wayne County, Mississippi, was still woven into the quiet rhythms of the place where she had been born and raised. She had come into the world on May 24, 1972, in nearby Waynesboro, the daughter of J.C. and Jewel Hopkins, and much of her life had unfolded within a short drive of that town. She belonged to Buckatunna Freewill Baptist Church, the kind of congregation where families knew each other acro
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