1825
The town originated around 1825.
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Her son, Shey Ledbetter, was 12. She had moved with him into a mobile home on Tidmore Bend Road, in a trailer park off Pope Road. Rebecca had begun seeing William David Robinson, a Navy man from Georgia.
He later broke into Rebecca's trailer, beat her and got away before police arrived. Robinson brought a gun to the house so that she could defend herself.
In August 1986 Holiday was in Nashville, calling himself Bobby Hill of Gadsden. On August 23 he told a man he had recently met, Richard John Hardy, that if his ex-wife Becky did not stop seeing her new boyfriend he would kill her.
On the evening of August 24, 1986, five people were at the trailer: Rebecca, Shey, her sister Katrina, Robinson and Larry Thomas Jr, a 16-year-old neighbour who was spending the night with Shey. Larry walked out to go home for a snack and was shot twice in the darkness, mistaken for Robinson. Holiday forced his way in, shoved Katrina aside and went down the hallway. Shey and Katrina escaped next door to call the police and found Larry's body in the front yard. In the back bedroom Holiday shot Rebecca as she crouched on the floor; the bullet entered the back of her head and came out through her right breast. He shot Robinson in the chest and arm.
The search became the biggest manhunt in the county's history, with state, federal and local officers, bloodhounds, helicopters and planes. On August 29 Holiday telephoned a former neighbour, Doris Ruth Nance, and said he had done a bad thing. He said he had not meant to kill the boy, but that Rebecca and David deserved what they got.
On September 6, 1986, Doyle Embry Wallace, a retired Alabama state trooper and Rebecca's uncle, was killed at his home in Southside, Alabama. A man kicked in the door shouting 'I'm the sheriff', shot Wallace once in the neck at close range and left with jewellery. Wallace's wife was hiding in the bedroom closet and survived. Bullets from the scene matched the gun used at the trailer.
On October 9, 1986, police in Gainesville, Florida, were called about a peeping tom. Holiday ran from one officer, was cornered by a deputy, grabbed at the deputy's revolver and was shot three times in the abdomen, arm and chest. At the hospital he was read his rights and said: 'My name is n Holliday. I shot and killed four people in Alabama.' He added that people said he had killed five over a woman, then laughed and winked. A hand-drawn map of interstate routes was found in his car.
Holiday took the stand and claimed he had been in Nashville and that the witnesses had confused him with someone else.
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