This is a story from 1980’s Louisville that has one of the most unusual endings we have ever discussed on the show before.
Sources:
Kentucky Vital Statistics
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2DD-ZQMN
Murderpedia
https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h1/harper-edward-lee.htm
Harper v Commonwealth 1985
https://law.justia.com/cases/kentucky/supreme-court/1985/694-s-w-2d-665-1.html
cincinnati.com
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/08/13/kentucky-executions/14013595/
Find A Grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181664330/alice-lee-harper
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181664301/edward_lee_harper
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20043061/eddie_lee_harper
Courier Journal: 2/20/82, 2/21/82, 2/26/82, 4/4/82, 10/6/82, 10/7/82, 10/8/82, 10/9/82, 10/13/82, 10/14/82, 10/23/82, 11/20/82, 1/31/85, 3/9/85, 5/3/85, 5/7/85, 5/24/85, 5/10/86, 6/18/86, 3/7/87, 4/6/99, 4/24/99, 4/29/99, 5/6/99, 5/19/99, 5/21/99, 5/25/99, 5/26/99
Lexington Herald Leader: 2/22/85, 3/8/85, 3/21/87, 6/29/97, 5/20/99, 5/22/99
The Paducah Sun: 3/6/87, 4/21/99, 5/26/99,
Advocate Messenger: 5/24/99
The State Journal: 5/26/99
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