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CANDYably more attention than the man fighting for his life, hutthis had no influence on the jury, Found guilty, He Wilt was sentenced to the pen for the rest of his days.Cindy didn't 90 along with this at all. Sh* and htr hut* bind ware on forms withWinlhrop Rockofolltr, t h awondar man of Arkansas, and Win was supposed to havtpull with Marvin Griffin* than govtrnor of Georgia. Griffin looked up DeWltt's fill and decided to keep hands off. “It looked like a bad case to me/' ha recalled recently.Thai was by no means the end of it, Bui before the Messier forces could be fully mobilised, an extraordinary thing happened — the sort of thing that now and then will happen In people like Candy. Having gonrs 10 Atlanta to visit her brother in jail shortly alter Ins conviction, she vanished.A statewide alert was put out, to no avail. Three days liter sha staggered up to a farmhouse in a wooded area near Cordelo, in the center of the state 120 miles south of Atlanta, completely out of her way. Candy was bedraggled and dazed and said she couldn't remember a thing. Nobody ever did find out what happened. Mossier asked the Georgia Bureau of investigation to drop the case* and It was dropped, period.It was after this, and after Rockefeller’s vain intervention with Ctov. Griffin, that Candy went into high gear on her ; brother’s behalf. She Iried herself to see the governor, but lie happened to be out or town.She never went back In the stale house, but others ap* Jlt; parently did.In discussing the affair not long ago, Griffin reminisced, •‘Some folks — 1 won't cnli anyfinfcin\v\v
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Wed, Dec 29, 1965
Page 14
Full Page
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Ronald S.
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