Book Synopsis
On January 6, 1926, John Ramsey confessed to FBI agents that he had killed Henry Roan at the request of Bill Hale who held a $25,000 life insurance policy on Roan. After a number of grand juries, trials, and a conviction of killing Roan, Ramsey changed his confession and named Curley Johnson (who had died in the interim) as the killer at the urging of Roy Bunch who was in love with Roan's widow. Johnson's wife admitted that her husband had been labeled a "ten-horned gambler" but she had been with Curley at Whiz Bang at the time Ramsey accused Curley of killing Roan. She stated that Hale and his attorneys had offered her a cash settlement if she would name Curley as the killer, and she could just name the price. She refused to play into the scheme just to save Hale from going to prison. This volume discusses John Ramsey's efforts to allow Hale to go free.