$45, single ticket
$40, 2+ tickets
$200, table of 6 guests
Ticket sales support the non-profit organizations: Cold Case Investigative Research Institute and Georgia Writers Museum.
Special Solved Case Edition
What is a Special Solved Edition of Crime & Wine?
Working with Sheryl McCollum , founder and Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI) and Georgia author of Cold Case: Pathways to Justice, GWM has presented 6 sessions of Crime & Wine. Sheryl’s program takes an in-depth look at unsolved cold case files. The Special Solved Edition of Crime & Wine invites Chief Clay Bryant of Troupe County to speak about his newest book The Cold Case Murder of Fred Wilkerson.
Lewis Clayton (Clay) Bryant was born and raised in Troup County, Georgia and began his career in law enforcement in 1973 as a radio operator with the Georgia State Patrol. In 1976, at the age of twenty-one, he became the youngest trooper on the Georgia State Patrol. In 1980 he became police chief of Hogansville, Georgia, and stayed in that position for twelve years until resigning in 1992 and going into the private sector. He has been recognized as the most prolific cold case investigator in the United States for single-event homicides. Bryant resides in LaGrange and currently serves as an investigator for the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council. His cases have been chronicled on 48 Hours Investigates, Bill Curtis’s Cold Case Files, Discovery ID Murder Book and a featured article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as well as articles in many local and regional newspapers.
Crime & Wine
What is Crime & Wine?
Working with Sheryl McCollum , founder and Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI) and Georgia author of Cold Case: Pathways to Justice, GWM presents Crime & Wine. Sheryl’s program takes an in-depth look at unsolved cold case files. She and her team share their experience and the case “murder box” and much more with the audience for a hands-on investigation of a real cold case. Sheryl believes that each individual brings their own knowledge and perspective to the investigation that she and her team may not possess, but that can produce leads for the cases. She and her team follow-up and report back on practical leads suggested during the evening’s event. Each week in Oct we will present a different case. Each week will be a surprise to the audience so they come into the investigation without preconceived opinions.
Some Notable Cases:
Boston Strangler, Natalie Wood, Zodiac, TuPac Shakur, Rebecca Zahau, Chandra Levy, Natalee Holloway, Honey Malone, Amber Hagerman, Susan Powell, Tami Jackson, Nacole Smith, Abby Williams & Libby German Delphi Murders, and Moore’s Ford Bridge Lynching
What is the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute?
The Cold Case Investigative Research Institute is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit that assists families and law enforcement with unsolved homicides, missing persons and kidnapping cases. This one of a kind band of all volunteer crime fighters are students and nationally recognized experts. The nonprofit organization is made up of experts such as profilers, detectives, crime analyst, prosecutors and crime scene investigators.
How is this related to the Georgia Writers Museum?
Crime & Wine mastermind, Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is the co-author of the textbook, Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. She is also an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46’s CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. Sheryl holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing.
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| WED: By Appointment |
| THU – FRI: 10am – 4pm |
| SAT: 10am – 4pm |
| SUN – TUE: Closed |
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Georgia Writers Museum
109 S. Jefferson Ave.
Eatonton, GA 31024
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