Lovejoy Boteler / CROOKED SNAKE [in Kosciusko]

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.

This event will be held at the Attala County Library in Kosciusko, MS. It is the third of four events sponsored by Turnrow to support Crooked Snake.

Event date: 
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Event address: 
201 S Huntington St.
Kosciusko, MS 39090
Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard By Lovejoy Boteler Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781496821706
Published: University Press of Mississippi - February 19th, 2019

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.