ASIN: B00XLSKNI2
Publisher: Historical Crime Detective
Pages: 414
On the night of Thanksgiving, 1934, the son of a prominent Tulsa doctor was shot to death in his car in the wealthiest neighborhood of the oil-rich city. Two days later, the son of one of the most powerful men in the state walked into the sheriff’s office with his lawyer and surrendered. The killer’s name, and who his father was, would shock the entire nation and make news around the world.In a convoluted story, the mentally unstable genius claimed he killed in self-defense and to protect wealthy debutante Virginia Wilcox—the object of his unrequited love. But prosecutors claimed their star prisoner was the actual mastermind of a diabolical plot in which he would emerge as the hero, win Virginia’s heart, and gain acceptance into the Wilcox family by her mega-rich father.Tulsa’s high-society murder scandalized the Oil Capitol of the World when the investigation churned up unsubstantiated ...
