Billy Cook Timeline
Updated 12 Dec 2022
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William Edward Cook Jr was born into a family where he had 10 siblings and his mother and fatherAfter their father abandoned them, all the children were adopted except for William because of an eye deformation and a bad attitudeBilly Crooks and his sister found their mother's dead bodyHe told the judge that he would prefer a reformatory over foster careHe was taken to prison for minor crime, where he then assaulted an inmate with a baseball batBriefly met his father, where he told his father he would "live by the gun and roam"He pretended to hitchhike, and a family picked him up, and he then killed all of themAn officer tried to take him by surprise while he was staying at a hotel, but Crook got the best of him and stole his carAn officer recognized him while he was in a town and took him into custody; He was then sentenced to 300 years in prison for 5 accounts of kidnappingAfter being found guilty for multiple accounts of murder, Billy Crook was executed in a gas chamber at San Quentin Prison
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