In the summer of 1978, the town of Franklin, Virginia, was shaken by the cold-blooded murder of a respected local businessman. On a July morning, William Jackson Smith Jr., a 54-year-old man, was shot and killed inside his own business, Smith Jewelers. The community knew him as a loving father and a dedicated member of his church choir, who had spent 24 years building his jewelry store from the ground up.
The man responsible for his death was Willie Lloyd Turner. Turner entered the jewelr
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