Details: On September 1, 1973, Obbie "Gene" Ward was working at the Southern 500 Truck Stop in Elm Ctiy, North Carolina, as a mechanic/ station attendent, when he was found dead, shot in the head. The Sheriff's department ruled it a suicide, but Gene's family did not believe this. They believed that he was happy at the time as he had just gotten re-married. For years, Gene's daughter Carolynn wondered what really happened to her father. Then in 2010, she was told by her uncle that he was in fact murdered and that the Sheriff's department had allegedly covered up the crime. She found in the coroner's report that Gene had been shot on the left side of the head from between three and five feet away. Also, there were no powder burns on his hands. Various files on Gene's death were destroyed du