{"product_id":"six-inches-deeper-the-disappearance-of-hellen-hanks-9780881467338","title":"Six Inches Deeper: The Disappearance of Hellen Hanks","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Rawlings\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mercer University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mercer University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Abductions, Kidnappings \u0026amp; Missing Persons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn August 31, 1972, Hellen Hanks, a pretty thirty-four-year-old mother of three disappeared from her place of employment at Wilcox Advertising in Valdosta, Georgia. After a brief investigation by local and state authorities, the case went cold. In the fall of 1980, a farmer clearing a field south of town discovered a buried object, a box containing the dismembered remains of the missing woman. After several months of investigation, police arrested \"Foxy\" Wilcox, his son Keller Wilcox, and two long-term African American employees of Wilcox Advertising. Keller was charged with Hanks's murder, and the others with concealing a death. The Wilcoxes were members of a prominent and wealthy Valdosta family. To defend their case, they hired famed defense attorney Bobby Lee Cook. Keller Wilcox's murder trial in January 1982 pitted Cook against a local prosecution team led by district attorney Lamar Cole. The case against Wilcox was entirely circumstantial, making the outcome uncertain. After a trial marked by controversy and conflicting testimony, Wilcox was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, all the while proclaiming his innocence. In 1985 he was freed by a federal judge based primarily on the harsh interrogation of the black witnesses. The true story of this horrific murder has all the elements of a work of suspense fiction: money, power, sex, race, and the haves vs. the have-nots. Multiple lives were forever changed. The outcome would have been totally different if the box had been buried only six inches deeper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46310955286679,"sku":"9780881467338","price":1694.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780881467338.webp?v=1768665938","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/six-inches-deeper-the-disappearance-of-hellen-hanks-9780881467338","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}