In the late spring of 2025, the community of Arab, Alabama, was shaken by the discovery of the body of 39-year-old David Pierce Merrit. On the morning of May 30th, a passing motorist made a grim finding on the Whitesburg Bridge, a body wrapped in a bloody quilt with a garbage bag covering the head. Investigators who responded to the scene on the north side of the bridge along U.S. 231/431 determined that the male victim, later identified as Merrit through fingerprint analysis, had died from a gu
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