10/08/2026
July 7 1998
LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM Attorney to assistant US Atorney General McGregor forwarded to Madison County District Attorney Withheld From Pulley::::::: Roger L. Alexander, Esq.�1013 Cole Circle�Birmingham, AL 35242�(205) 980-0773
July 7, 1998
To the Assistant U.S. Attorney McGregor
Re: Stacy Taylor and his knowledge of drug dealers and Marvin Holley in particular
Dear Mr. McGregor,
I am a practicing attorney in Alabama, and have been since 1997. Before that I have been licensed in Ohio since 1974. I have no independent knowledge of Alabama nor of drugs, or dealers. My sometime co-counsel, G. R. Mahmood acquired a certain notoriety when he brought an action against the sheriff of Madison County, where he lives, for violating the civil rights of an inmate, in particular for allowing the prisoner to die in his care for lack of insulin. He takes no part in this letter or my efforts.
In March, in his Birmingham office, I received a call from an inmate at the Madison County jail, asking me to represent him in an action against the sheriff, and stating more immediately that he needed medication which was being refused. I went to visit the inmate, Stacy Taylor. He told me a great deal about purported drug dealers and the involvement of the sheriff and others in the trade. In particular, he told me about the brutal murders of an elderly couple, a Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins.
I told him that I would require a retainer to bring the action against the sheriff, and none was ever forthcoming. But I believe my visit did have an effect on his receiving necessary medication.
Just yesterday, I had a long conversation with him at my expense. He asserts he knows about the murders of the Hopkins’, that the present sheriff of Madison County made damaging admissions which he overheard and that Taylor’s former girl friend and financial supporter Mary Beth Northcutt, an alleged mafioso Dewey Braselton, and a man named Charlie were present and heard and discussed the murders. He asserts that the people present alleged that Marvin Holley had committed the murders of the Hopkins, that the motive was drug money owed to Holley and his partner, one Charlie last name unknown, and that Marvin bragged about killing the people with many blows from a hammer, then shooting each of them some twelve times. The money was apparently owed by the Hopkins son and his son-in-law is also involved. Mr. Whisenant, the present sheriff, reportedly stated that he “cleaned up” the Hopkins home so that no clues as to the murder would be found.
