Alison Pratt, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in Long Island, New York. As a child, she had heard the story of her great-grandfather, Tom Pratt, his young wife Ruby, and his brutal murder on a hot August night in 1947, in Leaksville, North Carolina. When she decided to write the story down, she discovered a treasure trove of historical information that had never been assembled before. Old newspaper articles on microfilm, court records, and interviews with Eden (formerly called Leaksvilles) residents became the clues to piecing the story together. She hopes you will be as captivated by the events as she was.

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