The Man Who Spoke Too Soon: James Brewer

The murder of Jimmy Carroll rocked the small town of Hohenwald, Tennessee, back in 1977. Local man James Brewer was arrested and charged but disappeared like smoke on the breeze before he could stand trial. Thirty-two years later, and six hundred miles away, a man called Michael Anderson claimed on his deathbed that he was in fact James Brewer, and that he needed to get what happened that day off his chest. If he’s telling the truth, this could finally give Jimmy Carrol’s family the answers they’ve waited for decades to hear. Who really killed their Jimmy, and why? The answers might well lie with a man who might not live to see a trial.

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