Dieter Yates
I came across this case when I learned about the last one I wrote about. And, like the previous blog there was a lot of confusion on the date in which prosecutors believed this crime had occurred. In the last few months of the year of 1975 the city of Evansville Indiana was a violent one. There were six murders in the matter of seven days. Five of those murders seemed to be focused in much of the same area so much so that they were often lumped together in articles. The other issue with confirming times or dates of death was the fact that the bodies were not found immediately. In fact, on Tuesday December 2 nd the bodies of Joe Edwards and Phyllis McCown had been found earlier in the day and then at 8:30 that evening the body of seventy-nine year old Clara Vickery found was just a few blocks away. Prosecutors theorized that Edwards and McCown were murdered on December 1 st between eight in the morning and two in the afternoon. As my previous blog pointed out there were...