We left off at Redden W. Randell's sentencing of 5 years for the murder of Theodore Samms in November of 1940. Two months later, on January 14, 1950, Redden went to the Lawrence A. Powell Funeral Home and ordered a $250 wooden coffin for himself to be delivered to Madison, Florida, where the first woman he murdered was buried. Redden told the funeral home that his wife would pay for the expenses later. The next day, he wrote a suicide note and left it on a ledge in his panelled music room...

In 1939, Redden remarried Evelyn Ray of Gilmer County. She was 12 years his junior. At the time Redden was 48 and his bride was 36. Redden and his young bridge pose beneath the stucco arch in front of the old White Path Hotel property. Ten years later, at one of R.W. Randell's rentals events were set in motion that would set a course for disaster. Another Murder On February 1, 1949, Mr. Randell and his wife traveled together to collect rent from one of his African-American tenants, 38 year...

The Beginning White Path, a small hamlet in the mountains of North Georgia, takes its name from the famous Cherokee Indian leader who disagreed with the policies of European assimilation and acculturation. He lived in a small village in the Cherokee Territory known as Turniptown, not far north from present day Ellijay, Georgia. When the Cherokee were rounded up into removal forts, White Path was likely held at Fort Hetzel and later forced to leave his homeland to walk the Trail of Tears. ...