This newspaper article from June 11, 1979, tells the story of Welby Lee’s quest to find the person who killed his father, Newt Lee, in a hit and run. Welby Lee’s tenacity resulted in the arrest and trial of Grover Jones, an Indianapolis man who had continued to live his life as though he had not devastated a family in Tennessee by carelessly killing their father. Welby’s book, It Took a Worried Mind, details his investigative journey. Read more about the book here.
“Through skillful description and staging, the book reads more like fiction than fact,” according to the dust jacket, which noted, “The author’s conversational anecdotal style makes the text very accesible.