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The Perry's Camp Murders
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ISBN: 0741455285
Author: Allen, R.S.
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Two weeks after Labor Day, 1949, the most heinous crimes to occur in Sevier County, Tennessee in over 50 years shook the community. Charles J. Perry, 70, owner of Perrys Camp, a beer joint, eatery, and tourist court, located between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, was tortured, brutally murdered, and robbed. His live-in housekeeper, Josie Law, 43, was also stabbed to death. Arrested and charged during the ensuing week were Claude Robertson, 40, a career criminal who lived nearby; and two brothers, Hermie Lee Jones, 26, and Basil Jones, 20, both of Fall Branch in Washington County some 76 miles away. All three were indicted and in mid-November 1949, four days after the trial began, Robertson and Hermie Lee entered guilty pleas to both murders and were sentenced to 99 years. Basil Jones was released. Robertson died in prison in 1964. Nine months later, Hermie Lees sentence was commuted to life, and he was paroled. Basil in 1960 became a Missionary Baptist minister and was pastor of several churches near his home.
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