Earley Story will never forget the name Alfredo Shaw.
As a longtime employee at the Shelby County Jail in downtown Memphis, Story witnessed the young man entering and exiting the detention facility known as 201 Poplar since the 1980s. Shaw displayed a cocky demeanor, but there was fear in his eyes. Story, a devout Christian, occasionally engaged in conversations with him about God.
Shaw’s Transformation into a Key Witness
In 1994, Shaw became a key witness in a brutal triple homicide where a local drug dealer, his mother, and a teenage friend were abducted, murdered, and buried in a freshly dug grave at a cemetery in South Memphis. Prosecutors arrested 25-year-old
