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Author Hewitt, James W.

Title In cold storage : sex and murder on the Plains / James W. Hewitt.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Law in the American West
Law in the American West.
Summary 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.
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Subject Murder -- Nebraska -- McCook -- Case studies.
Murder.
Nebraska -- McCook.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Murder -- Investigation -- Nebraska -- McCook -- Case studies.
Murder -- Investigation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Hewitt, James W. In cold storage 9780803256637 (DLC) 2014041595 (OCoLC)893857957
ISBN 9780803280755 electronic book
0803280750 electronic book
9780803256637
0803256639
9780803280731 (epub)
9780803280748 (mobi)
0803280734
9780803280731