MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Mobile Press-Register journalist Arch McKay was gunned down in a sun-baked parking lot on Government Boulevard in 1973. It remains unsolved despite a mysterious car trunk full of clues.
In 1980, a hitman murdered well-to-do Elizabeth Leverett in her bedroom. The killer claimed he was hired by her husband, Paul, owner of the Col. Dixie fast-food chain.
Murdered mayors, serial killers, national bootlegging rings and Manson Family members all come together in Lagniappe’s riveting new true crime saga “Sinners Above All Others: Seedy and Sordid Tales from Mobile’s Underbelly,” masterfully written by Lagniappe Arts Editor Kevin Lee. It takes readers through three centuries of a city brimming with “hushed tales and cryptic societies” to reveal a part of languid Mobile you won’t see in tourism ads…