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In 1968, during Albert Lepard’s fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family’s farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper’s nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred.
Crooked Snake The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard is the true story of Lepard, sentenced to life in Parchman for the murder of seventy-four-year-old Mary Young in 1959. During the course of his sentence, Lepard escaped from prison six times in fourteen years.
In Crooked Snake, Boteler pieces together the story of this cold-blooded murderer's life using both historical records and personal interviews―over seventy in all―with ex-convicts who gravitated to and ran with Lepard, the family members who fed and sheltered the fugitive during his escapes, the law officers who hunted him, and the regular folks who were victimized in his terrible wake.
Throughout Crooked Snake, Boteler reveals his kidnapper’s hardscrabble childhood and tracks his whereabouts before his incarceration and during his jailbreaks. Lepard’s escapes take him to Florida, Michigan, Kansas, California, and Mexico. Crooked Snake captures a slice of history and a landscape that is fast disappearing. These vignettes describe Mississippi’s countryside and spirit, ranging from sharecropper family gatherings in Attala County’s Seneasha Valley to the twenty-thousand-acre Parchman farm and its borderlands teeming with alligator, panther, bear, and wild boar.
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"Having worked in the Goodman area for several years I was familiar with the geography and some of the people involved in the events. Great writing to relay both the facts and the emotions involved. Congratulations to Lovejoy!"
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Crooked Snake The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard Lovejoy Boteler 9781496821706 Books Reviews :
Crooked Snake The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard Lovejoy Boteler 9781496821706 Books Reviews
- This book is so much more than an account of prison breaks and recapture. It paints an indelible image of a section of the Deep South where poverty, ignorance and violence are the norm and where escape from this heritage is much harder than an escape from prison.
With language that is factual, but also invocative, Boteler spins a tale of violence, crushing hardships and depravity, but also one of family and justice. A must read. - Read with a fascination with the time and place that I knew well! It is a riveting story of how alife so isolated from the world could lead Albert and his cohorts to even think that what they were willing to do was in any way acceptable and could lead to anything other than their own destruction. It is a time between the old "sharecropping" way of life in the South and a new changing culture that would bring change in almost every way. A must read. Steve Donald
- The telling of the fascinating and tragic life of Albert Lepard through first hand accounts spins a epic tale that can best described as truth being stranger than fiction. The author allows the readers to make their own conclusions on the morality of the bizarre cast of characters, avoiding the justifiable victim role in exchange for a genuine curiosity. The pure desire to continue peeling the onion of such a complicated individual is contagious through this entertaining, addictive book. I’m looking forward to more from the author, adding him to the list of phenomenal southern storytellers!
- This is an amazing story of a man who could not live within the law and the man who witnessed part of his troubled life firsthand. Lovejoy Boteler describes the Mississippi Delta, its people, and a way of life as only a Mississippian can. A piece of history and a way of life that is rapidly disappearing, but thankfully will be preserved for history through his words.
- With fresh competition from the newly freed slaves, post-civil war share-croping was tough!! Tough to make a living in, tough to grow up in and even tougher to get out of! Some turned to religion and hard work, some to moonshine and music, and some to meanness and the wrong side of the law. This well executed and documented true story takes the reader on a gut-level journey through this southern sub-culture including the many kindnesses, perils and consequences of the times! My kind of history - the kind you can almost taste!
- Having worked in the Goodman area for several years I was familiar with the geography and some of the people involved in the events. Great writing to relay both the facts and the emotions involved. Congratulations to Lovejoy!
- It was hard to put this book down once I started reading it. Lovejoy Boteler's writing style is so descriptive, you feel like you're actually experiencing what he's writing about.
- Well written, fascinating story, highly recommended book!
