![]() ![]() Posted by: Barnes also owned a fleet of luxury cars and a wardrobe consisting of 200 suits, 100 pairs of shoes and 50 full-length leather coats. ![]() ![]() For a time in the late 60s and early 70s, Matthews seemed untouchable since, like Barnes, he only employed relatives or boyhood friends from his hometown of Durham, North Carolina. Evidence against him was routinely "lost." Witnesses regularly "forgot" what they had seen, who they had seen, and couldn't be sure enough to testify. In 1971, Barnes met dancer Thelma Grant, who quickly became pregnant with Barnes' child. She told me that the kids would bring her apples like they were in some country school from the 1930s. The ruling led to the admission into evidence of audio recordings on which an NYPD officer discussed plans to frame Barnes. ![]()
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