Butts crime revisited 30 YEARS LATER
Wed, 06/01/2022 - 5:00am
Editor’s Note: I received a call from an individual on my way from a road trip asking if I was going to write a story on the Butts murders. The person on the other line said that he had grown up with Kevin Hailey and thought it was important that I do a story because it was the 30-year anniversary of the murders. I remembered when I first started work at the Journal there was a brief mention of the crime and a copy of the family portrait in our special vault. However, once I started doing research, I found out how much it impacted our community, and the overwhelming national attention it received.
