On the night of April 12, 1982, 38-year-old Paulette Riggs was working as a cashier at a Mini Food Store in Macon, Georgia, when an armed robbery turned deadly. A Bibb County firefighter, Russell Peterman, arrived at the pumps and was shot twice by Mincey—once in the chest and once at point-blank range in the head; Peterman survived but was blinded in one eye. As Mincey moved toward his getaway car, Riggs tried to run; she was shot and, while wounded near a dumpster, was shot again in the head and killed. The takings totaled $141.19.

Mincey and two accomplices identified as Jones and Jenkins were arrested and indicted by a Bibb County grand jury for Riggs’s murder, the armed robbery and the aggravated battery of Peterman. Jones and Jenkins pled guilty and received long prison terms. A jury found Terry Michael Mincey guilty on August 23, 1982, and he was sentenced to death on August 26, 1982.

Did anyone who knew Paulette or worked at that Mini Food Store back then see anything that might still help clarify what happened that night?