Hazel Meeker, 72, a female and white neighbor living near the Grissom family in Kansas, was killed on January 27, 1977. That morning, after an argument with his parents, 16-year-old Richard Anthony Grissom Jr. left home, armed himself with a railroad spike, and forced entry into Meeker’s residence. Inside, he attacked her with fatal violence; contemporary and retrospective accounts variously describe Meeker as beaten to death, stabbed, or both, but agree that the assault was brutal and occurre
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