Rainy Night in Georgia

A sheriff-elect was murdered. I was next on the hit list. J.Tom MorganIn December 2000, Derwin Brown, the newly elected sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, was ambushed and murdered in his own driveway just days before taking office. He had run on reformpromising to clean up corruption and restore integrity to the sheriffs departmentdefeating the powerful incumbent in a bitter runoff.The case fell ...