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Boydstun got in touch with the killer's father, W. E. Cook of Joplin, Mo., and asked for permission to claim the body-a wealthy Comanche man, he explained blithely, wanted to pay for the funeral as a memorial for a wayward son. Cook agreed. Then Undertaker Boydstun told the local newspapers to stand by, took off for California in his hearse, claimed Billy, performed a quick embalming job, brought the body back to Comanche, dressed it in a neat blue pinstripe suit with black necktie, and put it on display...
...When he was a five-year-old boy in Joplin, Mo., William Edward Cook was pushed out into the world on his own; his ne'er-do-well father abandoned him in a deserted mine cave. Because he had a deformed right eyelid nobody wanted to adopt him. By the time Billy was 21 he had served time in both Missouri reform schools and the state penitentiary, had the words H-A-R-D L-U-C-K tattooed on the fingers of his left hand and had resolved to "live by the gun." During a murderous...
Coursing around the country in stolen cars, he kidnaped nine people, killed six of them. He threw five of his victims-Carl Mosser of Atwood, Ill., his wife and three children-down a well in Joplin. He shot the sixth. Seattle Salesman Robert Dewey, on the Southern California desert. He was caught in Mexico, returned to Oklahoma City to answer for the Mosser killings, and sentenced to 300 years in prison. But last year a California jury sentenced him to death for killing Salesman Dewey. Last week Billy Cook walked into the gas chamber at San Quentin, breathed cyanide fumes...
Clues. In Joplin, Mo., Police Radio Dispatcher Jim Miller broadcast the description of a stolen vehicle, wasn't surprised when police quickly found it: a bright red truck with a load of lumber topped by three bathtubs...
...French Morocco, Walter saw something that changed his whole life: traces of lead ore, which he recognized because he had seen the same ore around a big mine near Joplin, Mo., U.S.A. Against the advice of experts, Walter decided to start the Zellidja mine at the site. Within a few years he was getting rich...