Dick Hickock

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Richard "Dick" Eugene Hickock (born June 6, 1931 in Kansas City , Kansas , † April 14, 1965 in Lansing , Kansas) was one of the two ex-prisoners who murdered a farming family in Kansas on November 15, 1959. This crime became world famous through Truman Capote , who wrote the factual novel in cold blood about the crime .

Life

Hickock was born in Kansas City and grew up on a farm. His family has been described as stable and decent. After high school, he worked for the Santa Fe Railroad and married Carol Bryan. They had three sons together. To earn more money for his family, he started working as a mechanic; however, he had to give up this job after an accident in 1950 that shattered his jaw and disfigured him. While he was still married, he impregnated a girl named Margaret Edna, after which his wife divorced him. Because of his unemployment, Hickock began counterfeiting and theft, for which he served five years in Lansing Prison.

In prison he met Perry Smith and became friends with him. Another inmate named Floyd Wells told them about the Clutter family who lived in Holcomb and who should have a large sum of money in an in-house safe. After their release on the evening of November 15, 1959, Smith and Hickock broke into the Clutter family's home and threatened them with weapons to obtain the money. When they were told there was no money, they all handcuffed to different rooms for questioning. Hickock and Smith shot the bound Clutters one by one, with Smith later claiming to be solely responsible for the murders. The crime was discovered by friends the next morning. Floyd Wells informed the police that Hickock and Smith had planned a break-in at the victims' premises, and a little later the two were picked up in a stolen car in Las Vegas and transferred to investigators around KBI agent Alvin Dewey in Kansas.

Like Smith, Hickock was found guilty of quadruple homicide and sentenced to death.

Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were hung on April 14, 1965 in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing . Both were buried in Mount Muncie Cemetery in Lansing.

additional

The bodies of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were exhumed on December 19, 2012 . The authorities hoped to solve a 53-year-old case. On December 19, 1959, the Walker family was murdered in Osprey, Florida . Perry and Walker's DNA was compared to traces of semen found in Christine Walker's pants. In August 2013, the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office stated that the DNA did not match that of the exhumed.

Representation in art

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cora Van Olson: 'In Cold Blood' Killers Suspected in Cold Case of Florida Family Massacre . In: Crime Library . Retrieved May 5, 2013.
  2. ↑ 'In Cold Blood' Killers Exhumed, Investigators Hope to Solve 53-Year-Old Cold Case . ABC News. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  3. ^ 'In Cold Blood' killers' bodies exhumed in second murder investigation . In: NBC News , December 19, 2012. Archived from the original on May 30, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 5, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / usnews.nbcnews.com 
  4. ^ Bill Sanderson: 'In Cold Blood' killers' bodies exhumed to check for link in 1959 Florida slaying . In: New York Post , December 20, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2013. 
  5. ↑ Donna Koehn: No DNA link between Walker murders, 'In Cold Blood' killers . In: Herald Tribune , August 13, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2013. 
personal data
SURNAME Hickock, Dick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hickock, Richard Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ex-inmate
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Kansas
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1965
Place of death Lansing , Kansas