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True Murder with your host 31 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.079 journalist and author Dan Zupanski. 32 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:47.680 David Kolcheck's eighth book, Deadly California, is another tome of 33 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:51.680 off the wall murders, accidents, and robberies gone wrong that 34 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:56.000 have happened in California, with true crime tales from nineteen 35 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:59.840 twelve to nineteen sixty four, occurring in the San Francisco, 36 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:05.799 Los Angeles, Northern and Southern California, and Sacramento. Stories such 37 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.560 as When Sally Shot Harry, double murder on O Street, 38 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.560 Callern Sargent Liquor Store, and Corpus Delecti. The book that 39 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:18.479 we're featuring this evening is Deadly California Murders, Accidents and 40 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:22.560 Robbery's Gone Wrong with my special guests, Crime is Storian 41 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:26.159 and author David Coolcheck. Welcome to the program, and thank 42 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:29.680 you very much for this interview. David Coolcheck, Well, thanks 43 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:33.039 for having me again. Let's start off that the last 44 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.680 interview we had was from your last book, Forgotten California 45 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:40.680 Murders nineteen fifteen to nineteen sixty eight. Tell us of 46 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:45.240 your past books involving California, and tell us a little 47 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:48.120 bit about your background living in California. 48 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:48.479 Yeah. 49 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:52.240 When I moved to California two thousand and two, my 50 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:57.039 wife's from Sacramento moved home for family reasons. I immediately 51 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:01.400 got into the history of California. I was a history 52 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:04.879 major at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and left 53 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.800 my studies to come to California. And I realized that 54 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:12.639 all these books, especially about the more frontier days, were 55 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:15.719 all written about the same people. And I thought, well, 56 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:17.520 there's got to be more to this, and so I 57 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:23.000 started researching criminals that you haven't read about before, murderers especially, 58 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:25.439 and that's how I came up with my first book, 59 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:31.400 California Justice, shootout Slynchings and Assassinations. I inquired Quill Driver 60 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.479 books and they said, yeah, sure, sounds good and just 61 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.520 happen that way. So here we are eight books later, 62 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:39.800 and it's been. 63 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:44.400 Good Now let's get to this collection you have had. 64 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:50.439 This is murders, accidents, and robbery's gone wrong. You searched again, 65 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.680 and in introduction we talked about these stories emanate from 66 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:58.199 Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, your hometown 67 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:02.479 in California, and also northern and southern California stories. So 68 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:05.159 tell us just a little bit about the process of 69 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:10.039 gathering these stories and sort of the criteria you had 70 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:11.759 for putting this collection together. 71 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.159 Yeah, the stories are just ones that I come across, 72 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:19.120 because you know, once you read like an Oakland Tribune 73 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:23.199 from nineteen twenty, they'll tell you about everything that's happening 74 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.360 all over the state. You know, the Sacramento Bee was 75 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.399 another great paper of record, the Fresno b So if 76 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:32.759 it wasn't in those papers, it woul at least have 77 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:35.000 a little bet. So if you read those papers, you 78 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:37.560 could find out about a lot of crimes and things 79 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:40.680 that happen in more out there parts of the state. 80 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:45.000 Now, let's talk about when Sally shot Harry. This is 81 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.839 May eleventh, nineteen sixty one. This is in Redwood City, 82 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:52.879 San Mateo County, and a Harry Oliff. You say, is 83 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:56.600 an odd guy, average intelligence, good physique, wanted to be 84 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.920 police officer and married a woman named Sally le Bla 85 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.600 in nineteen fifty four. Tell us about Sally and Harry's 86 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:08.560 life and what happens one day in May nineteen sixty one. 87 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:12.560 Well, Sally worked as a secretary at an insurance company 88 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.959 and Harry just took on menial jobs and took classes 89 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.319 at community colleges. He was insecure guys about his situation. 90 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:22.920 He used to just haul off and hit Sally like 91 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:26.759 they were driving once on al Camino Reil, and with 92 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.199 that warning of provocutation, he'd just started beating her with 93 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:32.800 one hand while steering the car. So and he's just 94 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:36.600 backhander across the face. He told him how to get 95 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:41.000 someplace for directions, and he smacked her for not being lost. 96 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:44.800 So Harry joined the Air Force is in was stationed 97 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.680 in Paris, and Sally came to visit him, and he 98 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:51.800 wanted to do the badger scheme, which is scheme where 99 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:54.959 women would pick up a guy at a bar able 100 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:57.480 to pick out a target, you know, somebody who's there 101 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:01.079 in a convention or something, or some big wig, and 102 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:05.040 then guy cleaning her husband or her husband comes in 103 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.519 on them and they blackmail them and get money out 104 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.759 of them. He wanted to do that with his wife 105 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:12.839 while she was visiting him in Paris. I was in 106 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.360 the Air Force. It's kind of an odd duck. So 107 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:18.120 when he got out of the Air Force, he got 108 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:22.279 friendly with the San Materio Sheriff's Department in Redwood City 109 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:25.680 Police Department, and he went under cover as an agent 110 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:29.920 for the San Matero County Sheriff's Department, and he posed 111 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:34.439 as a beat nick marijuana user to entrap other Peninsula 112 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:38.600 marijuana users and sellers, and the police department paide for 113 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.439 a little house he had where you know, it was 114 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:44.439 like the pot smoking party house and stuff right, and 115 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.680 Harry grew like a go tee and Kangero's hair out 116 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:51.120 a bit and spoken beat nick lingo, and he had 117 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:54.839 orange fur covered shoes that he used to wear around, 118 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:59.319 so he was noticeable. And so yeah, he went and 119 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.600 knarked on all the people that he had made friends 120 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.720 with and had smoked marijuana with. In April nineteen fifty nine, 121 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.560 he snitched on two guys. One guy was just a 122 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.560 janitor and another one was a twenty three year old laborer, 123 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.600 and they found like five ounces of weed and three 124 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:19.399 marijuana cigarettes in the guy's shirt pocket, and overall he 125 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:23.839 was responsible for fifteen arrests. So whether that's good or bad, 126 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:27.079 I don't know. But he was just basically getting casual 127 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.759 marijuana users off the street. So you know, he thought 128 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:34.240 that that would be a lead into the police department 129 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.199 and did some low lectures and stuff for lunchtime rotary 130 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:42.480 clubs and stuff about his experience being a narc guy. 131 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:45.959 But he kept on trying. He tried twice for the 132 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.800 police examination and failed both times, and that's pretty much 133 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:53.199 ended his chances of being a cop. Ended up being 134 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:57.480 a swimming instructor in San Carlos, and the marriage fell 135 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:00.920 apart and he separated. So on oh oh, if he 136 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:04.040 like crashed his car in another car, like put the 137 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.720 driver of the other car in the hospital, and you know, 138 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:09.439 they didn't check the seer he was intoxicated or anything, 139 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:11.959 but he was getting drunk a lot at that time. 140 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.720 Sally rented a three bedroom or a three room apartment 141 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:18.240 over a Garadge and Rea her house at twenty one 142 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:21.519 Birch Street in Midwood City, and the house is still there, 143 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:24.600 and so was the apartment there. Harry dropped in whenever 144 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:27.240 he wanted, and Sally couldn't get rid of him. She 145 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:29.480 did his laundry and fed him while he hit the 146 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:32.919 local taverns and dated younger women. On May tenth, he 147 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.480 called Sally about ten thirty at night and he wanted 148 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:38.639 to chat. About hour later, after Sally had gone to bed, 149 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:41.519 he called again, and he was drunken in a noisy 150 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:43.919 bar room. He asked her to join her at a tavern. 151 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:46.840 She said she wouldn't, and he frettened her, saying you 152 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:49.559 better come, or I'll come over and get you. So 153 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:51.879 she was terrified she was going to get beat up 154 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:55.080 again since she picked up his thirty eight caliber revolver 155 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:57.679 that he had left at her place and sat in 156 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:00.840 her darkened apartment waiting for Harry to show up. And 157 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.039 Harry shows up right about midnight, let himself in. He 158 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.440 had his own key, and he walked towards her menacingly, 159 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.039 and she shot him when he was about two feet away, 160 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:12.200 shot him right in the middle chest. One hit his 161 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:14.559 left arm. The other one got him right now and 162 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:18.840 turned around and staggered sixty feet down this falcony, the 163 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.679 stairways and into the driveway. Where he fell down dead. 164 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:26.399 So Sally called her close friend, the cop that helped 165 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:31.000 Harry get into his informant work, and he came over 166 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:34.000 first before the police or anybody showed up. She was 167 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:38.360 booked in jail open charge of murder, and her attorney 168 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:42.200 said that he had never gotten so many requests to 169 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:45.480 testify for a defendant, because people who knew the couple 170 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:50.720 voluntarily requested to testify in her defense. Even Harry's parents 171 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.440 visited Sally in jail. Yeah, no one liked Harry. He's 172 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:57.080 you know, he slapped his wife right right in the bar, 173 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:00.039 right in front of people and stuff, and yeah, he 174 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.240 was a very nice guy. Harry had this girlfriend named 175 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.159 Amy Burke, who was the seminarial Times described as a 176 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:11.240 blonde and a real doll, and she's nineteen. She stabbed 177 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:15.440 till the detectives that oh, I promised that they'd get 178 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:18.360 to Mexican divorce and they'd get married, and they shared 179 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:19.559 an apartment. 180 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:20.240 In San Francisco. 181 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:23.720 So the trial begins on July fifth, and it's hot, 182 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:27.080 like one hundred degrees and it's in the old courthouse, 183 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:31.360 no air conditioning and stuff, and they just paraded a 184 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:36.200 list of people who all testified to seeing Harry, you know, 185 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:39.679 slap Sally around in front of people, and she talked 186 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:42.000 about how he'd force her to take off her bra 187 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:44.759 before they entered a bar, and then she was just 188 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:47.559 like he had her flirt with guys and he would 189 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:50.360 be a couple of seats away in the bar and stuff. 190 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:52.440 He guy just kicks out of that if Harry gust 191 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:55.320 some reason. But yeah, she was terrified that he was 192 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:57.720 going to beat her up. And they had the trial 193 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:01.399 and she was found that guilt after a nine day 194 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.159 trial and one hundred degree heat. 195 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:06.399 You write about how big this trial was and how 196 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:12.159 sensational it was in terms of the salacious testimony of Sally, 197 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:15.039 where she talked about, as you say, forcing her to 198 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:17.720 take her bar raw off before she went into the 199 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:21.240 bar and to flirt with men, and all these conversations 200 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:24.679 about There was pornography found, there was naked photos found. 201 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:29.360 So there was a vigorous cross examination of Sally that 202 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:33.639 she endured quite successfully. And then you write about the 203 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:38.039 dramatic verdict not guilty and she collapses in the arms 204 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:39.279 of her attorneys. 205 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:42.720 Yeah, and her parents who had moved away right after 206 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:45.559 her she graduated from school, they moved to the East 207 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.039 Coast and they were there and they led her out 208 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.120 of the courthouse. Attorney had a press conference at his 209 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:55.639 house with them and they asked her. The press asked 210 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:58.600 her some questions before she was going to go leave 211 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:02.399 it to her parents' house in Massachusetts. But she just 212 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:04.039 answered a few questions as. 213 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:08.799 It incredible tale. Let's talk about another extraordinary tale. Keller 214 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:13.000 and Sergeant Liquor Store. This is December twenty third, nineteen 215 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:18.000 fifty three in Long Beach, California, and very interesting character. 216 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:22.480 Lynn Feaster, tough man who despised criminals and he worked 217 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.399 at a clerk as a clerk at Keller and Sergeant 218 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:28.240 liquor store. And he was a World War One veteran. 219 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:32.360 Tell us about Lynn Feaster and some of the things 220 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:36.200 that he does to counter anybody trying to rob the 221 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:36.919 liquor store. 222 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:37.279 Yeah. 223 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:40.159 He was born in Missouri and moved to Long Beach 224 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:43.000 in nineteen thirty eight and he was bill forty two. 225 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:44.639 He had gotten divorced. 226 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:47.080 He his sister lived in a Long Beach and had 227 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:49.919 a son like in Phoenix or something. But he had 228 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:52.679 no problem to justinal life in California. He got a 229 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.960 job at Keller and Sergeant liquor store and Long Beach, 230 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.480 and he lived in an apartment just a couple of 231 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:01.200 doors down from the store. He's a nighttime clerk and 232 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:03.879 it was pretty dangerous jobs. It's like, why I put 233 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.039 these robberies gone wrong in this book, because it's just 234 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:12.159 fascinating the liquor store robberies that happened in the nineteen fifties, 235 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:15.960 late forties, early sixties, but just amazing. I don't know 236 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.399 why anybody would do that for a living. I read 237 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:21.679 about one story in San Francisco and the place now 238 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:25.840 is like a very nice for coffee shop. So Lynn Feaster, 239 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:29.200 he's a nighttime clerk, and he kept a bunch of 240 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:32.080 guns on him. He hit him under the counter, and 241 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:36.320 he practiced shooting. He did rehearse scenarios of how you'd 242 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:38.480 act when he'd getting it held up if he could 243 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:41.879 grab the gun. So there's no record how many robberies 244 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:45.759 Feaster had hindered over the last six years he worked 245 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:49.120 at Keller and Sergeant that he had officially killed two 246 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:52.639 would be bandits, wounded a third, and brought about the 247 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:56.320 arrest of five other people. So that's just crazy if 248 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:59.080 you think about it. You know what a job. You know, 249 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:03.000 I was a process process server for like four years, 250 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:07.000 and it was this guy had a much, you know, 251 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:08.159 scarier job. 252 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:08.919 Absolutely. 253 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:12.679 But on March twenty fourth, nineteen forty eight, this twenty 254 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:15.240 one year old David Krueger and nineteen year old Donald 255 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.480 Moore walked into the liquor store told FISA it was 256 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.559 a stick up. So Feaster pretended he was fainting. He 257 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:25.440 grabbed a pistol from under the counter and shot Krueger 258 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:27.200 in the chests. 259 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:27.960 And the guy sur vibe. 260 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:30.639 They were so young that they were sentenced to the 261 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:34.480 California Youth Authority and they did some time for that. 262 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.600 In August twelfth, nineteen forty eight, these two guys robbed 263 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.480 Feaster of one hundred and forty bucks, and Feaster ran 264 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:44.399 out and fired a shot from his pistol, and guy 265 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:46.879 went by and said, hey, the cops just jroe bis 266 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:49.639 a Feast fired another shot in their cops came back. 267 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:52.320 He hopped into the police card and they found one 268 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:57.240 of the robbers, Walter Gillen, and they arrested him at headquarters. 269 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.639 He told the police he had never been a rescued before. 270 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:02.200 He was like terrified. So the first time he attempted 271 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:05.360 a robbery, he sang like a canary, and the police 272 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:08.919 broke up a robbery ring that was all over Los 273 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:12.559 Angeles area, and five guys, they were all under twenty 274 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:15.360 six years old, were all arrested for the crimes for 275 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:19.480 all those robberies. So in March seventh, nineteen forty nine, 276 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:23.120 James Phillips and Gail Hare went out of robbery spree. 277 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:27.240 And Hair was an auto mechanic and fender guy. Phillips 278 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:29.279 was a car salesman. They were both out of work 279 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.720 and broke. They went and hit this one liquor store 280 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:36.039 at about ten thirty and got seventy five dollars from them. 281 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:39.480 About half hour later, they showed up over at Keller 282 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.679 and Sergeant liquor store tending to rob it, and they 283 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:46.399 formed a fifty four year old Feaster that they're robbing 284 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:49.440 the place. Fisa had a different idea. He pulled out 285 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:53.039 his thirty eight caliber pistol and plugged Phillips in the heart, 286 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:57.200 killing him instantly. Easter put down Hair with a bullet 287 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:00.639 to the throat and he died later in the hospital. So, 288 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:04.240 you know, I kind of enjoyed the notorarity he had, 289 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:06.519 and he told the Long Beach Independent that he had 290 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:09.600 been practicing for six months what to do in case 291 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:12.399 he was a victim of fugs. I figured the hold 292 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:15.120 up men would take all there is in the cash 293 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.279 register and then beat or kill you if they figured 294 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:21.879 you had hidden other money around the store. I'm just 295 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:24.559 a workingman who needs his job. I wish they would 296 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:28.120 let me alone. So not long after that, a postcard 297 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:31.600 arrived at the liquor store for Feaster and said you 298 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:33.960 will be taken care of for what you have done. 299 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:37.120 And it was signed to Gail pal So the police 300 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.759 kicked it out. They couldn't figure it out. They couldn't 301 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.320 trace it or anything like that. So that was one thing. 302 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:48.120 So on December twenty third, nineteen fifty three, Billy Morris 303 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.200 and John Davis sent to the liquor store about eleven 304 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:54.159 thirty and they tried to cash a forged check. Feaster 305 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:57.679 wouldn't catch it, and mor Scott Angry pulled his pistol, 306 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:00.840 so Feaster was caught off guard. He pleaded for his 307 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:03.559 life on his knees. He's probably gonna He was trying 308 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:05.880 to grab a pistol that he had underneath the counter. 309 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.960 You know, he was doing his overroutine and a Morsekuy 310 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.240 shot him in the mouth with a three eighty bullet 311 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:15.039 ended up bouncing aroundside his skull, and fifteen minutes later, 312 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:17.880 Feusture's body was discovered by a sailor keem in to 313 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:20.599 buy cigarettes. You know, that's amazing too about these liquor 314 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:25.480 stores were open until two in the morning, and kids 315 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.160 would come in at you know, eleven o'clock at midnight 316 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.319 and stuff. Wow, yeah, things are open a lot. 317 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:31.680 You know. 318 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:36.119 I think it was too because air conditioning wasn't around 319 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:40.000 a lot and more people did things than the evenings. 320 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:42.359 Just like in Sacramento. I read about this guy who 321 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:45.799 was shot at an ice cream parlor at twelve thirty 322 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:48.400 and on like a Tuesday, you know, and it's like, 323 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.720 you know, he was an attorney, he was like forty 324 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.960 years old. It's like, I don't know, man, people stayed 325 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:58.359 out more, I guess. But yeah, they found Feuster's body. 326 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:01.160 There was a thirty eight line by his head, and 327 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:04.839 then he had a semi automatic pistol in his pants pocket. 328 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:06.960 He didn't have a chance to grab any of them. 329 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:10.480 So it was a couple of years before, the Long 330 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:13.640 Beach detectives linked on Skis to the murder, and they 331 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:18.240 arrested Davis at Salt Lake City and Morris and Compton, 332 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:19.759 who still lived in the same place. 333 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:21.359 And at the. 334 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:25.000 Trial, John Davis's sixteen year old son took the stand 335 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.720 as a witness against his father, and he said the 336 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:30.799 knight of the murder who waited in his father's automobiles. 337 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.759 Davis and Morse went in a liquor store and a 338 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:35.680 few minutes came out of the store and he told 339 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.440 his father drove Morris To's Compton home, and then they 340 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.599 went to their trader in Guardania their trailer. He overheard 341 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:43.759 his father tell a woman who lived there that Morse 342 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:46.599 had killed the clerk. The next day they hooked up 343 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:49.559 the trailer and moved to Redwood City, of all places, 344 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:53.400 New San Francisco. So the jury found them guilty and 345 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:56.599 sent them to die. Yes, and they appealed it. They 346 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:00.960 gave him another trial, and in it his son said 347 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:04.359 that the court the da made him say those things, 348 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:06.839 And he said, you told me to answer the questions, 349 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:09.480 tell the truth. You and the other officers told me 350 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.759 not to ask for death penalty if you knew you were, 351 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.160 I would have never testified. 352 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:17.359 And had told the judge that he couldn't think straight. 353 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:20.240 And he was asked directly if he was with his 354 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:23.200 father Knight and murder, and then if you overheard David 355 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:27.119 Study shot, is that David Study more shot Feaster and 356 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:30.839 youth applied no to both questions, and the judge dismissed 357 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:31.839 the case. 358 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:33.079 Two guys are left free. 359 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:37.960 Very interesting legacy of all the incredible lives that were 360 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.079 changed and all the people that were killed, just at 361 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:45.799 this little liquor store, like you say, openly and see when. 362 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:47.960 I checked, I think that's one of the liquor stours 363 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:50.920 that's still there, so and it's I think it's still 364 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:51.720 a liquor store. 365 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:53.240 And no couple of them in the book. 366 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:56.920 Are you talk about an incredible occupation as well, even 367 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:59.720 though he was a World War One that he was 368 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.839 read for these criminals, and you say he didn't couldn't 369 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:06.680 stand these criminals, and so again he almost gloated when 370 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:09.799 he was able to kill a couple of these would 371 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:13.079 be robbers at his liquor store. And then the fate 372 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:16.799 that he injured himself where he was on his knees 373 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:19.079 begging for his life. You're right that he's trying to 374 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:22.680 go for his pistol. Likely, but he was not able 375 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:24.759 to do that and was shot in the mouth and 376 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:27.519 killed in that liquor store and left to die in 377 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:28.319 a pool of blood. 378 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:29.160 Yeah, he was. 379 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.319 He was barely acting, you know, getting down his knees 380 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:34.279 like go, don't do it, and he was ready to 381 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:36.200 grab that gun and blast the guy. 382 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:40.039 Yeah, very very interesting and interesting the behavior of the 383 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:44.759 son that again was forced to testify against his father, 384 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:48.119 the crowd and the district attorney assuring him that they 385 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:52.000 wouldn't ask for the death penalty, and then in that 386 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.799 first trial, certainly they did, and his father received the 387 00:20:55.880 --> 00:21:00.200 death penalty in the retrial as a result of the appeal. 388 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.000 Then the sun turned the tables on the district attorney 389 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:05.559 that had lie to him. 390 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:06.720 Incredible. 391 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:09.839 Let's use this, David as an opportunity to stop for 392 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:12.680 a second to hear from our sponsor. 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