Four Blind Mice
Chapter One
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY for Cumberland County, North Carolina, Marc Sherman,
pushed the old wooden captain's chair away from the prosecution table, and it
made a harsh, scraping eeek in the nearly silent courtroom. Then Sherman rose
and slowly approached the jury box, where nine women and three men - six white,
six African American - waited with anticipation to hear what he had to say.
They liked Sherman. He knew that, even expected it. He also knew that he had
already won this dramatic murder case, even without the stirring summation he
was about to give.
But he was going to give this closing anyway. He felt the need to see Sergeant
Ellis Cooper held accountable for his crimes. The soldier had committed the most
heinous and cowardly murders in the history of Cumberland County, North
Carolina. The so-called Bluelady Murders. The people in this county expected
Sherman to punish Ellis Cooper, who happened to be a black man, and he wouldn't
disappoint them.
The district attorney began: "I have been doing this for a while - seventeen
years, to be exact. In all that time, I have never encountered murders such a ... read full excerpt from: Four Blind Mice ebook
