Murder on Salisbury Road
By: written by R.B. Nicholson
Publisher: R.B. Nicholson]
Published: 2007
Place of publication: North Carolina]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780979806704
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Trials (Murder); Insanity defense; Mass murder
Description: "In 1988, MIchael Hayes committed the most heinous of crimes and compounded his felony with the shamelessly blasphemous excuse that he had been on a mission from God when he murdered four people he did not know.  The gullible jury accepted the opinion testimony of the defense-hired expert witnesses as being truthful and chose to excuse Hayes's atrocity.  This book details what led to the fateful event and documents the chronology of the evening of 17 July 1988 ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Hayes shot nine people, killing four: Crystal Cantrell, Tom Nicholson, Melinda Hayes and Ronnie Hull.  His defense was insanity and it won him a trip to a mental facility, not prison.