Nearly two hours past midnight on the moonless night of December 14, 1990, a single-engine Cessna airplane landed at the rural Ware County airport near Waycross, Georgia, then proceeded to taxi and park at an isolated and remote end of one runway. A guard at a nearby prison who had observed the landing alerted local sheriff's deputies, who arrived just in time to block the plane from taking off. The officers observed a large box inside the plane's cabin and, suspecting illegal drugs, obtained a search warrant. To the shock of the deputies, the box contained the body of a young white female, her head covered with plastic bags and a rope tied tightly around her neck. The pilot of the Cessna, Michael Glean, denied knowledge of the box's true contents, instead stating he was flying Christmas gifts for needy children to Florida. It was soon discovered that he was also an attorney representing Dr. Jack Wallace, a wealthy Atlanta-area chiropractor, in a contentious divorce from his much younger wife. The body was rapidly identified as that of Kimberly Wallace. Further investigation revealed that Glean's plan was to fly over the nearby vast Okefenokee Swamp and dump Kimberly's body from the plane where it would soon be eaten by alligators, thus destroying the evidence of her murder. In one of the most bizarre murder cases in recent Georgia history, Glean, Wallace, and two other accomplices were charged and tried in Waycross for Kimberly's murder. The cases attracted national attention as well as the services of some of the best-known attorneys of the day. AN ORDINARY MURDER is at once a sad, horrific, and fascinating account of a true crime and the evil of those who committed it.