Episode 317 - Reverend Willie Maxwell: Harper Lee & The Killer Voodoo Preacher

<p>In summer 1977, in Alexander City, Alabama, a man stood up in front of 300 mourners at the funeral of a 16-year-old girl – and shot a reverend three times in the head.</p><p>When the shooter’s murder trial began, it caught the attention of the renowned author, Harper Lee, who went on to spend years researching the story for her next book.</p><p>But it wasn’t the shooting that had piqued her interest.</p><p>It was the series of suspicious deaths surrounding the reverend – Willie Maxwell – known in Coosa County, Alabama, as a serial killing voodoo preacher.<...