Almost 50 years to the day after the murder of Sapulpa football coach Jerry Bailey, the tragedy will be featured on an episode of “Murder Under the Friday Night Lights,” a series on Investigation Discovery (ID).
The fourth season of the true-crime docu-series begins Wednesday, January 15th, and the episode, titled “Guilt Will Get You,” focuses on Bailey’s murder in 1976 and the investigation that followed.
In 2018, Sapulpa graduate and author Kirk McCracken wrote a book on the tragedy called “Because of the Hate.” Sapulpa Times interviewed him as the novel was first released for sale on Amazon.
“I grew up in Sapulpa and graduated in 1992. I had always wondered what really happened, but I had only heard rumors and most of them were untrue. Actually, they were just wrong,” McCracken said in that interview. “I also wanted to honor Jerry Bailey and his memory. He touched so many lives and didn’t see race or color during a difficult time in Sapulpa.”…