Review Of May God Have Mercy By John Tucker

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local woman who he allegedly raped at gunpoint. Coleman denied having anything to do with the crime. Coleman immediately became a suspect in the crime due to his close relationship with the McCoy family and because of his previous conviction. The police theorized that the killer would have scratch marks on his face and hands because Wanda’s injuries appeared to suggest that she may have battled with her assailant. After speaking with Brad McCoy and verifying that he did not have any scratch marks the police were reasonably assured that he was not the killer. Brad later took and passed a polygraph and was never investigated any further as the murderer of his wife.
On the night in question Coleman left his job at a coal mining facility at around ten pm, made a couple of witness corroborated stops, and then proceeded back to Grundy. According to the timeline that the police presented Coleman had a very short amount of time to commit the murder.
Coleman was tried and convicted of the murder of Wanda McCoy based largely upon...