By Darcy O'Brien
Kentucky by no means extra deserved its Indian appellation "A darkish and Bloody floor" than whilst a small-town medical professional, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, referred to as in an emergency on a sweltering night in August 1985. Acker's personal existence hung within the stability, however it was once already too overdue for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed 11 occasions and pinned by means of a kitchen knife to her bed room ground in Fleming-Neon. 3 males had one way or the other controlled to breach Dr. Acker's alarm and safeguard structures and made off with quite a lot of the money he had stashed away in a secure over his lifetime. The killers—part of a three-man, two-woman gang of the kind no longer visible because the Bakers—stopped counting the moldy money owed once they reached $1.9 million. they discovered that each one the money got here in convenient presently afterwards, after they have been stuck and had to trap Kentucky's such a lot flamboyant legal professional, the prestigious Lester Burns, into representing them.
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Spectators filled the courtroom to hear him ring the rafters with rhetoric and watch him fall to his knees and weep before the jury. Only prosecutors were glad when he left town. But on May 14, 1987, Lester’s world collapsed. He had already resigned his license to practice law. Gone were the diamonds and fancy suits. One newspaper compared him to a dethroned heavy-weight. He was fifty-five. Stooped and abject, he stood before a federal judge, having waived his right to a trial, and wept not for a client, but for himself.
Lester must be kidding. This was robbery! Lester suggested that Roger go back to his cell to think things over. The sooner he came to a decision, the better, because if he was not going to hire Lester Burns, he had better get someone else, quick. There would be an extradition order coming down from Kentucky. There wasn’t any time to waste at all, but Roger could sleep on it, if he wished. “You don’t hire the best for peanuts,” Lester told him. As he headed for his car, Lester ran into Carol and Sherry, who were with two other women Carol introduced as Louise Farley and Sharon Wilson, Donnie Bartley’s mother and sister.
High cheekbones, a tanned, coppery complexion, and a regal carriage exuding confidence suggested a Shawnee chief, maybe Tecumseh himself somewhere in the background ennobling the tough Scottish strains. His hair was sandy; his eyes gleamed turquoise. “Momma and I just about raised him,” Governor Chandler recalled twenty-five years later in speaking to a reporter who was preparing a front-page feature story on Lester. “He just had that Clay County determination about him. Under other circumstances, he might have had an average life.