For Mobile native Michael Burchfield, South Carolina Lowcountry was similar to home but just not the same. The distance felt especially far on Labor Day weekend, 1983, when his boss knocked on Michael’s door at “2 or 3 o’clock in the morning.”
“That’s when he told me my brother Major had been murdered. My life changed forever,” Michael said as his voice shook. The 68-year-old sighed, looked away and stroked his snowy goatee, his watery eyes distant. Mobile lost a nascent cultural force to a late-night frenzy of blood and blade. The Burchfield family lost part of their heart.
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An article about Major Burchfield in the Pensacola Journal from September 1983
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David Nelson Mize was convicted of slashing ballet impresario Major Burchfield 19 times with a kitchen knife, then fleeing to Georgia in Burchfield's car. (Photo provided by the Mobile County Sheriff's Department)
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