In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains - Couverture souple

Hewitt, James W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803256639 ISBN 13 : 9780803256637

Editeur : Bison Books, 2015

Synopsis

2016 Nebraska Book Award

In Cold Storage is an excellent history of one of the more sensational crimes in Nebraska history.-- Steven Guenzel, Nebraska History

In 1973 the small southwest Nebraska railroad town of McCook became the unlikely scene of a grisly murder. More than forty years later, author James W. Hewitt returns to the scene and unearths new details about what happened.

After pieces of Edwin and Wilma Hoyt's dismembered bodies were found floating on the surface of a nearby lake, authorities charged McCook resident Harold Nokes and his wife, Ena, with murder. Harold pleaded guilty to murder and Ena pleaded guilty to two counts of wrongful disposal of a dead body, but the full story of why and how he murdered the Hoyts has never been told.

Hewitt interviews law enforcement officers, members of the victims' family, weapons experts, and forensic psychiatrists, and delves into newspaper reports and court documents from the time. Most significant, Harold granted Hewitt his first and only interview, in which the convicted murderer changed several parts of his 1974 confession. In Cold Storage takes readers through the evidence, including salacious details of sex and intrigue between the Hoyts and the Nokeses, and draws new conclusions about what really happened between the two families on that fateful September night.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James W. Hewitt is president of the Friends of the Center for Great Plains Studies and was an adjunct professor of history at Nebraska Wesleyan University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court (Nebraska, 2007).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bison Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803256639
• ISBN 13: 9780803256637
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible