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An in-depth portrait of Billy Cook, his crimes and execution appears in John Gilmore's 2005 book L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times. Cartoonist Mark Zingarelli made a seven-page hard-boiled comic story on Cook in 1987, titled "The 'Cockeyed' Cook Story" collected in The New Comics Anthology ( ISBN 0-02-009361-6 ).
Billy Lee Chadd; Richard Chase; Louis Chaves; Juan Chavez; Terry Childs (serial killer) Wilson Chouest; Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow; Thor Christiansen; Clara Phillips; Doug Clark (serial killer) Herbert Coddington; Cynthia Coffman (murderer) Billy Cook (criminal) Spade Cooley; Kevin Cooper (prisoner) Joseph Corbett Jr. Juan Corona; Michael Cox ...
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Ida Lupino (left) directing The Hitch-Hiker. The Hitch-Hiker was based on the 1950 killing spree of Billy Cook who, posing as a hitchhiker, murdered a family of five, kidnapped a Riverside County Sheriff's Department deputy and abandoned him in a desert (the deputy survived), and killed a traveling salesman, before attempting to flee to Mexico by taking two men on a hunting trip hostage and ...
Billy Cook (actor) (1928–1981), American actor; Billy Cook (criminal) (1928–1952), American spree killer and mass murderer; William Cook (1908–1987), English choreographer, better known as Antony Tudor
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This is a list of people executed in Illinois.A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection.
In the 1960s, for a second decade, the United States FBI continued to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.Following is a brief review of FBI people and events that place the 1960s decade in context, and then an historical list of individual suspects whose names first appeared on the 10 Most Wanted list during the decade of the 1960s, under FBI ...