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Eye Witness: Spade Cooley Murders His Wife

Johnny Black, Country, January 2014

IN THE EARLY 1960s, ageing country music star Spade Cooley and his significantly younger wife Ella Mae were living on his remote ranch, Rosamund, in the Mojave Desert near Bakersfield, California.

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