Murder In A North Georgia Town

Published: May 15, 2008, 1:27 pm

[CR Note: Carey Parrish is the editor and publisher of Web Digest Weekly. He’s been thinking about one of those haunting cases that grabs writers by the throat — especially when they are unsolved. We’re delighted to have him guest blog today. The accounts recalled in his story are drawn from archived newspaper reports and from Carey’s personal recollections of the events as they unfolded.] Guest blog by Carey Parrish A brutal double murder has haunted residents of Dalton, Georgia, for nearly twenty-two years. November 7, 1985, was a cold night. Someone slipped into the home of Rev. Dewitt and Jessie Lou Lewis and beat them to death. The couple was sixty-six years old. Mr. Lewis was the semi retired owner of Dewitt's Electric Motor Rewinding and Repair and a Baptist minister. Around Dalton, he and his wife were respected, upstanding members of the community. No one has ever been arrested for the murders. Dalton is a booming town, at the foot of the

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