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He said, the police come by and fill out a report and put down that fingerprint dust, and you'll be cleaning it up for two days after that, but they'll never even call you.

A grand jury voted to release him.

In 1974, a man named A.C.

Wade owned a liquor store in Cordial, Georgia.

He also owned a cigarette vending machine just outside of the store.

But if you were to shake the machine so much, whatever the charge would be set off.

Attorney David Rainwater.

A.C.

Wade, the liquor store owner, said his machine had been broken into five times and that he'd put in the dynamite to try to scare off potential thieves.

He said, the solution was to sacrifice the machine.

It was the only thing I could come up with.

Just after midnight on August 23, 1974,

a 16-year-old boy named Robert Joel McKenzie and his 15-year-old friend reportedly tried to pry open the machine with the tire tool.

The dynamite went off and the machine exploded.

Both of the boys were hurt.

Papers reported that the 15-year-old left the scene to seek medical help, leaving his friend behind.

He was eventually questioned by police and brought the deputies back to the liquor store.

Robert Joel McKenzie was still at the scene, very badly injured.

His leg had been hit by a piece of metal from the machine during the explosion, and an artery in his thigh was severed.

He died shortly after he was taken to the hospital.