Concluding the Saga of James Dean Walker

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published May 24, 2021 at 2:15 PM CDT

Randy Dixon, with the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, uses archives to conclude the story of James Dean Walker. Walker was twice convicted of murder, then escaped from Arkansas. The story ends with a possible third trial and a plea agreement.

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