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On Thursday night, the news broke that Harvey Updyke, the Alabama fan who infamously poisoned trees at Toomer’s Corner at Auburn, passed away at 71 years old. Paul Finebaum reflected on the ...
Updyke called into the Paul Finebaum Show in 2011 to confess his crime. He spent time in jail after pleading guilty in 2013. Harvey Updyke, man who poisoned Auburn trees, dies at 71 [Video]
Two months later, on January 27, 2011, the perpetrator called the Paul Finebaum sports radio talk show to confess the actions, which were presumed to have been driven by Alabama's loss the previous week in the Iron Bowl against Auburn in 2010. [8] [9] [10] The phone call was tracked and the perpetrator, Harvey Updyke, was arrested. Updyke ...
In 2011, the poisoning of the trees on Toomer's Corner at Auburn University led a man, Harvey Updyke, to call the Finebaum show about the story. Finebaum was featured on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and appeared on CNN, ESPN, MSNBC, and several other networks. He was blamed by many for the event, including one caller saying, "if ...
Police traced the call to the home of Harvey Updyke Jr. of Dadeville. Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper, was taken into custody at 1:26 am CST on February 17, 2011, and charged with one count of criminal mischief, a class C felony in Alabama. On March 22, 2013, he received a 3-year split sentence, which includes 6 months' incarceration and ...
The trees were removed after being poisoned by Alabama fan Harvey Updyke in 2010. ... Updyke said he was upset after Auburn beat Alabama in 2010 and then went on to win the national championship.
Adding insult to injury, on April 23, 2013, Auburn's landmark oak trees at Toomer's Corner were cut down, declared unsalvageable after being poisoned by Harvey Updyke, Jr., an Alabama fan, during the weekend of December 3, 2010.
After an investigation, Auburn city police, on February 17, 2011, arrested Harvey Updyke Jr., a 62-year-old man from Dadeville, and charged him with criminal mischief, a class C felony in Alabama. [13] A grand jury subsequently indicted him on four felony charges and two misdemeanor charges. [14]