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ISBN. 9780440066927. The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals during a traffic stop and the subsequent murder of one of the officers.
Gregory Ulas "Greg" Powell[ 1][ 2] (August 2, 1933 [ 1][ 2] – August 12, 2012) [ 3] was an American criminal who kidnapped Los Angeles Police Department Officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger on the night of March 9, 1963. [ 4] Assisted by accomplice Jimmy Lee "Youngblood" Smith, Powell took the officers to an onion field near Bakersfield ...
Smith kept the officers covered while Powell drove them to an onion field in Kern County. [2] [5] Powell and Smith initially promised to release the officers. [6] Once they arrived at the onion field, Powell asked Campbell if he heard of the Little Lindbergh Law. When Campbell replied yes, Powell shot him in the mouth. [5]
The Onion Field is a 1979 American neo-noir [ 5] crime drama film directed by Harold Becker and written by Joseph Wambaugh, based on his 1973 true crime book of the same name. The film stars John Savage, James Woods and Franklyn Seales, as well as Ted Danson in his film debut. Woods' performance as Greg Powell was the film's most widely praised ...
Karl Hettinger. Karl Francis Hettinger[ 1] (October 29, 1934 - May 4, 1994) was an American police officer of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1958 to 1963. Hettinger formerly served in the United States Marine Corps from 1952 to 1958 and served in the Korean War and Vietnam War. He was known for surviving the "Onion Field" incident, in ...
The earlier murder conviction of Smith's alleged co-conspirator, William Bradfield, remained undisturbed. Bradfield died in prison. One of Wambaugh's most known nonfiction books is The Blooding, which tells the story behind an early landmark case in which DNA fingerprinting helped solve two murders in Leicester, England. [8]
John Emil List (September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008) was an American mass murderer [ 1] and long-time fugitive. On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. He had planned the murders so meticulously that nearly a month passed before anyone suspected that ...
Based on journalist David Grann's 2017 best-selling book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the true story of how a white businessman and self-proclaimed "true friend" of the ...