The Phantom Killer, exhaustively researched, is the only definitive nonfiction book on the case, and includes details from an unpublished account by a survivor, and rare, never-before-published photographs.Although the case lives on today ...
Scopes, a high school teacher, was accused of violating state law by teaching evolution in high school. Scopes' trial conviction was overturned on appeal and the state law voided in 1967.