Ashley Flowers

And the man said that they were in Louisville to rob a bank around the time Alberta died, but then they got this better deal to kill an attorney.

And according to Flora, the man said that they killed Alberta and then sold her wig somewhere in Kentucky.

But the detective who told the family about this came back later and said that the guy had been stabbed to death in jail before the detective could even go talk to him personally.

That seems convenient.

Right.

Weird timing.

And whether or not that story was true or connected, this whole case reeks of something bigger.

Bigger than just who killed Alberta.

The question for her family is who was behind her killing?

Who might have helped cover it up?

Because it feels like someone in power had a hand in this.

And if that's the case, then it likely has to do with one or two places where Alberta was getting in the way for people.

Either it had to do with her civil rights work or it had to do with her work involving Muhammad Ali.

So I told you earlier that Alberta negotiated his first professional contract.

But she was also managing a lot of his money, like 15% of all the winnings at the height of his career was kept in a trust that he couldn't touch until he was 35.

And if someone wanted that money, they had to go through Alberta.

Now, this started to get explored a little in the 1980s investigation.

A detective reported that Ali wanted some of his money to go to the Nation of Islam, but Alberta refused.

And the detective said that they even argued about it.

And Ali told Alberta that members of the NOI really wanted that money.