02369cam a2200337 i 4500 607582411 TxAuBib 20221020120000.0 141024s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014041595 9780803256637 alkaline paper 0803256639 alkaline paper (OCoLC)893857957 TxAuBib rda Hewitt, James W. In cold storage [Adult Nonfiction] : sex and murder on the Plains / James W. Hewitt. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015] ©2015. xiii, 132 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Law in the American West http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90636463 In 1973 the small southwest Nebraska railroad town of McCook became the unlikely scene of a grisly murder. More than forty years later, author James W. Hewitt returns to the scene and unearths new details about what happened. After pieces of Edwin and Wilma Hoyt's dismembered bodies were found floating on the surface of a nearby lake, authorities charged McCook resident Harold Nokes and his wife, Ena, with murder. Harold pleaded guilty to murder and Ena pleaded guilty to two counts of wrongful disposal of a dead body, but the full story of why and how he murdered the Hoyts has never been told. Hewitt interviews law enforcement officers, members of the victims' family, weapons experts, and forensic psychiatrists, and delves into newspaper reports and court documents from the time. Most significant, Harold granted Hewitt his first and only interview, in which the convicted murderer changed several parts of his 1974 confession. In Cold Storage takes readers through the evidence, including salacious details of sex and intrigue between the Hoyts and the Nokeses, and draws new conclusions about what really happened between the two families on that fateful September night. 20221020. Murder Investigation Nebraska McCook Case studies. Murder. Nebraska McCook. Case studies. Law in the American West http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90636463.