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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.
- Joseph Wambaugh
- 1973
Aug 13, 2012 · The infamous “Onion Field” cop killer whose 1963 crime was chronicled in a best-selling book and a movie has died, officials said Monday. He was 79. Gregory Powell died Sunday at the...
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Assisted by accomplice Jimmy Lee Smith, Powell took the officers to an onion field near Bakersfield, California, where Campbell was fatally shot. [5] Infamously known as the "Onion Field" Killer, Powell's story was depicted in Joseph Wambaugh's 1973 non-fiction book, The Onion Field. [6]
SIGNIFICANCE: In March 1963, two small-time thieves kidnapped two Los Angeles police officers. They murdered one, but the other escaped. The killers were quickly captured and were convicted of murder. With appeals, interminable pretrial motions, and new trials, however, the case dragged on for another six years.
Mar 11, 2013 · On the night of March 9, 1963, two thugs who had partnered in a series of robberies and in a complicated sexual arrangement were stopped by LAPD officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger near the corner of Carlos Avenue and Gower Street in Hollywood.
Aug 14, 2012 · Gregory Ulas Powell, one of the notorious “Onion Field” murderers whose 1963 slaying of a Los Angeles police officer shattered the image of the invincible cop and changed police practices,...
Mar 9, 2013 · Soon the city and the nation would find out that Los Angeles police officers and former U.S. Marines Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger had been kidnapped by ex-convicts and taken to an onion...
