After the Georgia governor commuted the execution sentence of the man convicted of the murder of Mary Anne, an angry mob stormed the prison where he was incarcerated and lynched him. Years later, a man known to have been an agitator in that lynch mob, Bunce Napier, was arrested for the brutal rape and murder of a 14 year old Louisiana girl named Maggie Mae Giffin. Napier was quickly tried and convicted of committing her rape and murder, then executed by hanging. Soon afterwards, officials became aware of a number of striking similarities in the rapes and murders of both girls, causing them to believe Napier may have been the actual murderer of Mary Anne Phagan. Newspaper reports about this possibility led to investigators becoming aware of similar unsolved abductions in several other states. Similarities in those abductions made them suspect Napier had also been responsible for the disappearances of several teenage girls who had gone missing while he was known to have been in those areas before leaving soon afterwards.
After the Georgia governor commuted the execution sentence of the man convicted of the murder of Mary Anne, an angry mob stormed the prison where he was incarcerated and lynched him. Years later, a man known to have been an agitator in that lynch mob, Bunce Napier, was arrested for the brutal rape and murder of a 14 year old Louisiana girl named Maggie Mae Giffin. Napier was quickly tried and convicted of committing her rape and murder, then executed by hanging. Soon afterwards, officials became aware of a number of striking similarities in the rapes and murders of both girls, causing them to believe Napier may have been the actual murderer of Mary Anne Phagan. Newspaper reports about this possibility led to investigators becoming aware of similar unsolved abductions in several other states. Similarities in those abductions made them suspect Napier had also been responsible for the disappearances of several teenage girls who had gone missing while he was known to have been in those areas before leaving soon afterwards.
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