Art Ellis

This is the story of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy African-American wife who shot and klled her white lover, a prominent physician and recently elected senator, in the Segregationist South of 1952. Zora Neale Hurston, the famous African-American writer, covered the trial, and wrote that is had "all...

Dr. C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., author of Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum and featured guest in the “Shot Doctor” episode of a Crime to Remember on the Discovery Channel, states, “Blood on the Suwannee is the poignant story of three murders on the banks of the Suwannee River from the...