Family Hopes Poem Can Solve Slaying

STAHAM, Ga. — Retired physician C.B. Skelton writes poetry. But few works ever penned by the doctor contained as much emotional urgency as did the poem he wrote at the request of a grieving father. Dickie Cole recently approached Skelton with the hope that the man known as the “Poet Laureate of Barrow County” could write a poem that might convince someone to identify the person who killed his son on Nov.

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