[2] At the age of 19, he married Joan, three years his junior, and fathered 5 children: George, Christina, twins Tony and Stephanie, and Jason.

[6] Other artists who recorded for GRC included Sammy Johns (million-seller "Chevy Van"), Moe Bandy and Loleatta Holloway.

[7] He commissioned one of the largest residences to be built in Atlanta in 1972, a 30-room British Tudor-style mansion called "Lion's Gate.

"[2] Lion's Gate was designed by Robert M. Green, an Atlanta architect who studied under Frank Lloyd Wright, and was originally valued at an estimated $3.3 million.

[2] In September 1973, Thevis and Roger Underhill used a pipe bomb to kill Jimmy Mayes, a former employee who had opened his own adult magazine shop.

Thevis was captured in November 1978, while attempting a large cash withdrawal from a bank account he'd established under a false identity in Connecticut.