Summary of Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington's The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

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#1 Levon Brooks, a charming and optimistic man, had been working as a night guard at the Santa Barbara Club in Macon, Mississippi. The early ’90s were the club’s heyday. Old school blues musicians still played at the more established juke joints, but the Santa Barbara lacked authenticity.

#2 Brooksville, Mississippi, was a quiet old prairie town with old-fashioned homes softened by an even spread of shade. It was the home of the Santa Barbara, which provided the three men with a variety of marketable skills and a semi-steady income.

#3 Justin Johnson, a man with schizophrenia, was able to walk past a sleeping man and enter the house where he found three-year-old Courtney Smith sleeping on the floor. He picked her up and left. It was that easy.

#4 By the time William Smith came home between two and two thirty a. m. , Courtney was already gone. He saw his brother Tony asleep on the couch, in front of a television now broadcasting static. He glanced into the girls’ bedroom and noticed something amiss, but didn’t make much of it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822552586

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Levon Brooks, a charming and optimistic man, had been working as a night guard at the Santa Barbara Club in Macon, Mississippi. The early ’90s were the club’s heyday. Old school blues musicians still played at the more established juke joints, but the Santa Barbara lacked authenticity.

#2

Brooksville, Mississippi, was a quiet old prairie town with old-fashioned homes softened by an even spread of shade. It was the home of the Santa Barbara, which provided the three men with a variety of marketable skills and a semi-steady income.

#3

Justin Johnson, a man with schizophrenia, was able to walk past a sleeping man and enter the house where he found three-year-old Courtney Smith sleeping on the floor. He picked her up and left. It was that easy.

#4

By the time William Smith came home between two and two thirty a. m. , Courtney was already gone. He saw his brother Tony asleep on the couch, in front of a television now broadcasting static. He glanced into the girls’ bedroom and noticed something amiss, but didn’t make much of it.

#5

On the night of the abduction, police chief Russell never went home. He continued the search alone. Exhausted, he eventually returned to his car and fell asleep.

#6

The police investigation into the murder of Courtney Smith was led by Deputy Ernest Eichelberger. He had only been working at the sheriff’s department for about six months. He wanted to solve the case, but he lacked the experience to do so.

#7

Eichelberger began his investigation by getting a positive identification from Smith’s father, Rocky Allen. He then turned her body over to Noxubee County coroner Willie Willie, who sent her to be autopsied by Steven Hayne.

#8

When Michael West conducted the preliminary examination, he found bite marks on the girl’s wrist. He then excised the skin around several of them, and concluded that they were indeed bite marks.

#9

Eichelberger’s investigation led to the arrests of many people, including William Slick Mickens, who was married to Ruby Smith’s sister Betty. He was arrested for sexually abusing Courtney Smith.

#10

After the funeral, the family gathered for dinner at the home of Freddie Allen, Courtney’s great-grandfather. The local newspaper, the Clarion-Ledger, reported that Slick Mickens had been arrested for the rape and murder of Courtney Smith.

#11

Before he became a police officer, Robert Williams spent 18 years introducing cartoons and sketching whimsical animals for children on television. He was beloved in Mississippi as a beloved icon.

#12

Williams’s methods were not based on years of training or