In the winter of 1938, the life of John Woodward, a 36-year-old Black man, came to an untimely and mysterious end in Atlanta, Georgia. His death on December 4, 1938, would later be viewed as the first in a string of suspicious fatalities connected to one woman, his common-law wife, Roberta Elder.
Living at 519 Bedford Place N.E., Woodward was admitted to Grady Hospital on December 2, 1938, suffering from a severe illness. Two days later, he was dead. The official cause of his death was re
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