Former death row inmate readies for new trial decades after Columbus County double murder
Former death row inmate gets new trial decades after double murder By Kendall McGee | January 11, 2021 at 6:35 PM EST - Updated January 11 at 7:49 PM
WHITEVILLE, N.C. (WECT) - Thirty years after a gruesome double murder shook the Cape Fear region, attorneys are still arguing the case.
Norfolk Junior ‘Fuzzy’ Best was sentenced to die after being convicted of killing an elderly couple in 1993. Soon, he may have a new trial.
The bodies of Leslie Baldwin, 82, and Gertrude Baldwin, 79, were found in their Whiteville home in 1991. Twenty years later, important evidence in the case was found in the attic of Whiteville City Hall.