“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.” ...

Scholar Dianne C. Luce notes that at the time, Cormac McCarthy was living in Knoxville, just a couple hours up the highway from Chattanooga, where the local papers also covered the Lula Lake murders.

There have been multiple Cormac McCarthy adaptations over the years, including the Best Picture winner No Country For Old Men ...