Remember When Rick Thompson...

...helped a Florence department head kill a young man and hide the body? That was the story for years and it had so much detail that you would believe there had to be truth to it. Except there wasn't an ounce of fact in the tale. When the case was finally solved, it was a local drug dealer who had killed the youth.

Remember when a Littleville teen killed a young McDonald's manager over a girl and made it look like robbery? This young man lived under that cloud for years until two serial killers were revealed to have robbed the small Muscle Shoals store.

Remember when a Florence City Council member gave his brother-in-law a plum job manufactured just for him? Even this blog published that little tidbit. The problem was the incompetent man may have been a friend to the council member, but he wasn't married to the elected official's sister. Did we eat crow over that one!

These memories are prompted by a question we recently received. Wasn't Lauderdale County district attorney Chris Connolly actually on the cabin cruiser involved in the Shoal Creek boat crash? That's how these stories morph into such a mountain of speculation and untruths. 

We're guessing Chris Connolly at this point is wondering why he ever wanted to be a district attorney in an area that could properly be called an idiocracy. 

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