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...Wanted to Die." Three days later a horseman found the body. Maricopa County police easily collared the killers, for they had not gone unobserved on the night of the murder: a witness had seen Resnick and his companions in the Studebaker driving to their desert rendezvous. But the story the four men told seemed unbelievable. "He promised us $200 cash," said Spurlock. "He promised us all of his jewelry and $200 to do the job. When we searched the body, we got the jewels but found only two dimes and those five pennies. We did it because he wanted...
Under intensive questioning, separately and together, the four stuck to their story, down to the last macabre detail. The police were finally convinced that Resnick had indeed arranged his own death...
Anything Else. Brooklyn-born Sam Resnick was a jolly, roly-poly man, a prosperous retail jeweler. Through the years he parlayed his Newburgh, N.Y. shop into a chain of ten stores. He did a big business in West Point class rings, had a number of prominent friends (among the pictures on his bedroom wall were an autographed photo of Thomas E. Dewey, others of Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio). He lavished affection and money on his frail wife Lillian. (Says she: "I was his queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart...
...Resnick called the number, found Clemmine Lee Jackson, 19, a soft-spoken Texas farm boy who had recently come to Phoenix to live with his older brother in a shantytown slum. Like the others, Jackson at first declined the invitation to be a murderer. But in the course of their two talks, Resnick discovered that Jackson passionately wanted to start a car-wash station of his own. The promised $200-enough to start his business, Sam pointed out-did the trick. Clemmie agreed, but absolutely refused to do the deed alone. He enlisted his brother and three other Negro youths...
Change of Plan. On the fatal night, Resnick ate a quiet supper and told his wife he was going out for a stroll. "He put on his coat and left, but without kissing me, which he usually did," Lillian Resnick recalls. A block from his home, Resnick spotted the Studebaker. The killers had told him they would stalk him in the street, shoot him in the back of the head, and collect their pay from his pockets...