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...still took an extra inch when possible to distinguish himself from the crowd.“Michael always liked to stand with his heels on the fireplace so that he could get up a couple more inches above everybody else,” said Joseph W. Esherick ’64, Crichton’s freshman year roommate.Though the pair differed in academic interests—Crichton studied physical anthropology and Esherick studied Chinese studies—Esherick said he “always thought we were put together as freshmen by height.” The three residents...
...personally seen Thompson “work the room” in press conferences. He’s a charismatic guy. That’s why I expect that the Georgetown students will take to him and provide him with the support that began to fade in the Craig Esherick...
...Electric Chair. On the surface at least, Fred Esherick Jr., 16, is nothing like Gary Lee Miller. He had never been convicted of any crimes. He was not from the hill country, but from a clean-cut suburb of Cleveland. What Fred did was to kill his father. And he admitted...
Planned Knockout. Esherick's defense was that killing his father was an accident. Mrs. Esherick did not think so. As she told it, her husband had rushed in after she was hit with the bayonet, and son and father had wrestled until she "saw Freddy draw his arm back." She went to the living room, picked up the telephone, and then "Freddy grabbed me from behind. I dropped the phone and passed out." When she came to, her husband's body was stuffed in beside her in the car. "I couldn't figure out where...
...Esherick was an adopted child (at age one), and he had generally been a good student and son. But in the year or so before the murder, he had grown increasingly resentful of strict parental regulations. His grades dropped, and he was discovered stealing money on his newspaper route. The day before the murder, he asked a friend to help him knock out his parents so he could run away. Recalled the friend: "I thought he was out of his tree...