Deadly Hero: The High Society Murder That Created Hysteria In The Heartland - Plot & Excerpts
HIGGINS DIDN’T LOOK like a detective. At least not in the way those Hollywood flickers portrayed hard-nosed, gum-shoe detectives. He was short, wore wire-frame glasses, and had a comb-over that failed to mask his bald dome. But where others were brash and forceful, Higgins was methodical, patient, thoughtful—qualities that led to his posting as chief over all detectives in Kansas City, Missouri. And when airplane parts dealer and unlicensed pilot Floyd Huff sat across from his desk that Saturday morning of December 1, Higgins detected the nonverbal clues of a nervous man anxious to tell a story that he felt was important. If this fella believed his story was significant, Higgins was patient enough to hear him out. In an article that appeared the following year in a crime magazine he coauthored, Higgins recounted the statement Huff gave. He began by handing Higgins a newspaper clipping about the murder in Tulsa of John Gorrell Jr., a student at Kansas City Western Dental College. Attached to the Associated Press article was a clipping from a local newspaper that had pursued the Kansas City angle, with a short but unproductive interview of Dick Oliver.
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