160: Coweta County Justice

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Hosted and produced by Erica Kelley
Written by Erica Kelley and Haley Gray
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Edited & Mixed by Next Day Podcast & Erica Kelley

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In the 1940s, John Wallace was a wealthy and powerful moonshiner who ruled Meriwether County, Georgia with an iron fist. Having the county sheriff in his pocket meant Wallace was allowed to do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted. Even commit murder.

On April 20, 1948, Wallace’s reign would come to an end. That day, he murdered a man, something he’d done many times before. However, this time, Wallace made a grave mistake: he committed the murder just over the Coweta County line.

Wallace did not have the Coweta County Sheriff in his pocket, and he was about to find out what it was like to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

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1:04.6	In the 1940s, John Wallace was a wealthy and powerful man who ruled Merry Weather County, Georgia with an iron fist.
1:13.9	He ran a family dairy farm that was actually a front for one of the biggest moon shunt distilleries in the South.
1:20.9	He abused his sharecroppers while greasing the palms of the town's folk every chance he got.
1:27.6	But he went to church every Sunday and played the part of a good old Godfair and Southern family man.
1:33.8	He even had the county sheriff in his pocket.
1:37.1	Which meant John Wallace was allowed to do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted.
1:43.1	Even commit murder.
1:45.1	On April 20th, 1948, Wallace's reign would come to an end.
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