On a winter evening in Bessemer, Alabama, the lives of a family were irrevocably shattered by a man with a long and violent history. On January 7, 1977, 34-year-old Lois Jean Tatum, her 36-year-old husband John Tatum Jr., and her 60-year-old mother, Willie Mae Hammock, were tragically killed in their home. The perpetrator was Walter Hill, a man already known to the criminal justice system for a string of violent offenses that stretched back decades.
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