In Colder Blood: Warning: Crime Scene Photos Are Graphic. The True Story of the Walker Family Murder by JT Hunter & Parker RJ

Author:JT Hunter & Parker,RJ [Hunter, JT]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RJ Parker Publishing
Published: 2016-09-17T14:00:00+00:00

December 17, 1959

The owner of a tire shop reported that on December 17, 1959, just two days before the Walker family was murdered, two men matching Hickock's and Smith’s descriptions pulled up to the curb of the Frosty Mack Tire Company in Tallahassee. They said that they wanted to sell the new whitewall tires on their car for cash and a replacement set of used tires. After one of the men produced a bill of sale for the tires reflecting that they had paid $60 for them, the tire shop’s owner agreed to buy the tires for $20 and exchange them for used ones. As the two men departed, one of the workers at the tire shop asked them where they were going. They answered that they were going “hunting.”

According to Ted Smith, the operator of a gas station in Sarasota located at Cattlemen’s Road and Fruitville Road, two men who matched photographs and physical descriptions of Hickock and Smith came to his station later that afternoon asking if anyone needed auto painting. One of them claimed to be a “car painter” and inquired about automobile paint shops in the area.

Another witness, G.W. Moye, reported that around 4:30 p.m. on the same day, a man matching Perry Smith’s photograph came to Moye’s home driving a car with an out-of-state license plate. The man asked if Moye would pay him to repair a dent in the fender of Moye’s car. He told Moye that he and his partner, a blond-haired man who remained in their car, did odd jobs and automobile body work, stating, “Mister, we do body work and we noticed that your fender is bent. We do good work and we would like to fix your fender”.

In her investigative report, McGath noted that Perry Smith had worked for a time as a car painter and Dick Hickock had experience working as an automobile mechanic and a used car salesman.

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