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Robert Nixon (July 19, 1919 – June 16, 1939) was an American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles "brick bat murders" of 1937.
Nixon was arrested after returning to Chicago and killing his fifth and final victim on May 28, 1938. He confessed to the brick attacks and sentenced to death for the last Windy City slaying. Nixon was electrocuted on June 15, 1939.
Jun 17, 2016 · Robert A. Jones, who murdered Kari Lynn Nixon, to get new parole hearing following appeal.
May 13, 2019 · Nixon killed five women using a brick between 1937 and 1938. The Brick Bat Murders refers to a 1937 case that occurred in Los Angeles. Nixon sometimes had an accomplice named Earl Hicks (a.k.a. Howard Jones Green). Robert Nixon confessed to the five murders and was sentenced to death.
- United States
- June 16, 1939
Jan 29, 2018 · Florence Johnson, white and a Chicago fireman’s wife, was raped and beaten to death in her bedroom on May 27, 1938. Tried and convicted of murdering her was Robert Nixon, an 18-year old “slow...
Dec 8, 2016 · The core of this book is Dale’s detailed reconstruction of the murder of Florence Johnson; the arrest of Robert Nixon and Earl Hicks for the murder; and Nixon’s subsequent prosecution, conviction, appeals, and eventual execution by the state of Illinois on June 15, 1939, when he was just nineteen years old.
Feb 8, 2018 · Tried and convicted of murdering her was Robert Nixon, an 18-year-old “slow-witted colored youth,” as the Tribune described him back then. On June 16, 1939, he was electrocuted in the Cook...
