Danny Earl Cotton was a 19-year-old man working the late shift as a service-station attendant in Fulton County, Georgia, when the night turned into something far darker than routine. In the early morning hours of September 28, 1977, a blue Cutlass pulled in carrying four people: three males and a female. Cotton wasn’t alone—his friend Michael Perry Echols was visiting him at the station—but the two young men were quickly overwhelmed. The group robbed them, then forced Cotton to open a floo
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