Interstate Interstate 85 runs from Montgomery, Alabama to Petersburg, Virginia, just south of Richmond.

It passes through Atlanta, Georgia, Charlotte, Greensboro, and Durham,

North Carolina and Greenville, South Carolina, the hometown of legendary Chicago White Sox baseball player shoeless Joe Jackson.

It was little more than a dirt track during shoeless Joe's heyday, but by the 1960s,

it was a pipeline for drugs, illegal whiskey, stolen beer, stolen cars, and stolen money.

In Georgia, about an hour outside Atlanta, the highway runs past the small town of Pendergrass.

Pendergrass would become infamous in the 1960s as the hometown of Andrew Clifford Park.

Formally, he was called a C Park.

Informally he went by Cliff Park.

His nickname for good reason was the old man.

By the 1960s when it all came to a head, he was in his 70s, and he was the godfather of bootlegging

in the counties northeast of Atlanta.

15 minutes up Interstate 85 is the small town of Commerce, Georgia. It was the headquarters of Ambre duet

Allen, who was usually called AD Allen. Alan dabbled in bootlegging and illegal gambling, but his primary business was car theft.

He and many of his family members ran a car theft ring that plagued the region for years.

When the ring ran into trouble,

he would show that he had no problem with armed robbery

to make money.

And at that time, just like in Phoenix City

a decade earlier, Park and Allen would face a crusading lawyer who wanted to clean up the area.

Floyd Hoard was from Fayetteville, south of Atlanta, but he married into one of the leading families of Jackson County, which dropped him into the backyard of Cliff Park and A.D. Allen.

Hoard started as a defense attorney in Jackson County, and he watched crime in the area grow worse and worse, and not just in Jackson County, but in all the counties northeast of Atlanta.

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