The first brick killing took place in Chicago in 1936, when a young cocktail waitress was beaten in the hotel room where she lived with her 7 year old son. The killer scrawled, "Black Legion Game" in lipstick on the dressing-table mirror. And he left a beautiful set of fingerprints which showed that he was Robert Nixon, an 18 year old black delinquent. But Nixon had vanished.
In LA, a young black man called Thomas Crosby started amassing a record, with arrests for purse snatching and suspicion of auto theft. A brick-murderer also began working in the city. He killed twice in March, and again in Arpil. All victims were woman killed in their own homes, with the last victim's 12 year old daughter also battered to death. The clumsy stupidity ot these pointless killings led to assassin being dubbed 'The Brick Moron'.
Mrs. Florence May Johnson, a fireman's wife in Chicago, was killed with a brick. Soon after that , Chicago police picked up Nixon, and it was not long before he confessed. The police learned about the brick killings in LA and exchanged fingerprints. They confirmed that Nixon and Crosby were the same person.
He was tried in Chicago and executed.
How would you like to be remembered for eternity as " THE BRICK MORON"?
