An Ordinary Murder: The Death of Kimberly Wallace

On the night of December 14, 1990, a single-engine Cessna airplane landed at the rural Ware County airport near Waycross, Georgia, then proceeded to taxi and park at an isolated end of one runway. A guard at a nearby prison alerted local sheriff's deputies, who arrived just in time to block the plane from taking off. The officers observed a large box inside the plane's cabin and, suspecting illegal drugs, obtained a search warrant. To the shock of the deputies, the box contained the body of a young white female. The pilot, Michael Glean, denied knowledge of the box's true contents, instead stating he was flying Christmas gifts for needy children to Florida. It discovered that he was also an attorney representing Dr. Jack Wallace, a wealthy Atlanta-area chiropractor, in a contentious divorce from his much younger wife. In one of the most bizarre murder cases in recent Georgia history, Glean, Wallace, and two other accomplices were charged and tried in Waycross for Kimberly's murder.