Ashley Flowers

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.

But all lines of inquiry into this stopped when the detective's wife started receiving threats, said that if her husband didn't back off, that they would put her in the river.

Seems like he just backed off.

Yeah.

But this avenue is getting renewed attention now, thanks to a professor at Bellarmine University in Louisville named Lee Remington.

She has been studying this case for a book that she's writing about Alberta's life and death.

And so far, she says this is the direction that seems most promising.

She expects to lay out more evidence, like a potential money trail leading back to Alberta's killer when she publishes, though there is no published date quite yet.

Like I mentioned, the book is about more than just Alberta's death.

Alberta made a huge impact on her community in the 34 years of life that she had.

And Flora and Lee have made sure that she won't be lost in history.

In 2017, Louisville honored Alberta as a hometown hero and hung a banner with her picture on a massive bank building along a street named after Muhammad Ali.

The city named a park after Alberta.