Eddie Tucker was 34 when his body was found on October 16, 1994, in a wooded area of Oconee County, Georgia. A recently divorced construction worker from Oconee, he had been involved briefly with a white supremacist group calling itself the National Vastilian Aryan Party, led by William Mark Mize.

After the arson attempt failed, Mize reportedly deemed Tucker unreliable. Mize and other NVAP members then took Tucker on what was described as a camping trip into a remote wooded area, where he was shot multiple times with a 12-gauge shotgun and left for dead.

Within a week of the body’s discovery, Mize and three other NVAP members were arrested and charged with murder. Mize was indicted for malice murder on January 11, 1995, and testimony at trial by fellow group members, including Mize’s then-girlfriend, implicated him as the orchestrator of the killing. Did anyone who knew Tucker or the group see signs of escalating violence before October 1994?