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John Grisham’s “A Time to Kill” Chapter 1
Billy Ray Cobb was the younger of the two rednecks. He spent time in prison when he was twenty-three, selling drugs to the blacks and the guards. In the year when he was release, he prospered, still selling drugs to the rich people in Ford County. He was a business man and could afford to pay $17,000 cash for a canary yellow pickup truck with fancy chrome. He had a stolen rebel flag hanging across the rear window. The pickup truck was Cobb’s most prize possession.
Willard was four years old than Cobb but mentally slower. He had never been in serious trouble and had never been seriously employed because of a bad back he suffered working in an oil rig. He worked part-time with Cobb who really did not pay much but gave him drugs.
Cobb and Willard had gone to the lake with some friends with a boat where they were to meet some easy girls and have some fun. Unfortunately, the girls did not want to party with them so they left frustrated. While they were driving, they saw Tonya, a black ten-year-old female. Tonya was walking home from the grocery store. Willard hit the back of Tonya’s head with a beer can. They dragged her to the woods and bound her elbows with nylon rope and spread her legs and tied one to a fence and the other to an oak sapling. They repeatedly raped and beat her and threw beer cans at her. After they were done, they attempted to hang her but were interrupted by a passerby driver. They wanted to toss her body over a bridge but could not find one unoccupied by blacks fishing. Cobb finally took her body and dumped it down a ravine.
Tonya was found by some people who were fishing down by Foggy Creek when they saw Tonya lying in the middle of the road. Tonya told them who her father was and they brought her home. Paramedics were called and Tonya was on her way to the hospital.
Tonya was brutally raped and saw her attackers. She knows the vehicle she was put into. Will she be able to identify her attackers? I cannot wait to read the next chapter of this book.
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