Frank Boykin, a 75-year-old white male, passed away in his Leland, Mississippi, home on September 1, 2017. Initially, details surrounding his death were not widely available in the public domain. He had spent 38 years working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture experiment station in Stoneville, where he had several of his testing machines patented. In his retirement, he managed rental properties.
Information regarding the specific circumstances of his death and any potential suspects or arrests has been limited in public records and news reports. While the Leland Police Department, in collaboration with the U.S. Marshals Service, arrested a homicide suspect named Cordell Dwayne Patterson Jr. in December 2018, there is no publicly available information that connects this arrest to the death of Frank Boykin. The investigation into his death remains without significant public updates.
