Gruesome 1930s Head & Hands Murder - 4 men's executions, woman’s descent into madness

On June 27, 1936, three young men were taking a dunk in a lake close Carrollton, Ky., when they saw countless fluttering around a solid filled box two feet underneath the surface.

They began to lift the case out of the water, yet dropped it and rushed to the sheriff when they saw a human hand standing out of the solid.

Inside, agents discovered two hands and a man's head, which drove the case to wind up noticeably known as the "Head and Hands Murder."

The crate gave missing bits of a bewilder that had begun two weeks sooner when a Kentucky rancher saw wicked garbage and a hatchet along a stream.

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After seven days, the headless, handless body of a man, around 300 pounds and 60 years of age, turned up in a course about 20 miles from Carrollton.

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Dental work and a scar under the correct eye prompted his personality — Capt. Harry Miller, 62. He had resigned from the Cincinnati Fire Department around six years sooner following a recognized 30-year profession.


Mill operator vanished on June 11 and was most recently seen at his home in New Trenton, Ind.

Companions said they was aware of no adversaries, and they trusted cash must be the intention in the murdering. 

Mill operator was a sagacious financial specialist and was not modest when it came to discussing his riches, which was evaluated at a large portion of a million dollars.

His one relative, a sister, Flora, lived in Cincinnati.

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Police additionally discovered that Miller was locked in to a youthful medical caretaker. The life partner told police that there was pressure between her planned and his sister. 

Verdure was always goading Miller for cash, and he had as of late begun looking at cutting her off.

The life partner said Flora's driver, Heber Hicks, was another sore point. Mill operator did not believe him.

It ended up being an insightful perception. Specialists found that Hicks had a startling criminal history, including the theft and murder of a young lady. 

He shot her and remove her fingers to get to her rings. For that, Hicks was sent to imprison forever, however for reasons unknown, he was paroled following 11 years.

Greenery had no brushes with the law, however she had a peculiar, miserable past. 

Right on time in the century, she was a skilled musical drama vocalist who passed by the name Florence D'Ephia and was a piece of a voyaging organization.


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Some say a fizzled sentiment sent her home to mother, and she turned out to be progressively withdrawn and unconventional, and a hoarder. 

Trunks of dramatic ensembles packed the home's upper room and storm cellar and she kept truckloads of marble, with expectations of one day utilizing it to assemble a stronghold in the terrace.

On July 5, police captured Flora and Hicks, accusing them of Miller's murder.

Hicks immediately admitted. He said he had employed three men, paying them $400 and 100 offers of Bethlehem Steel stock, to get rid of Miller.

His rationale was to get his hands on $120,000 in stock authentications in a lockbox possessed by the Captain, however put away at his sister's home.

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With Miller good and gone, Hicks contemplated, Flora would acquire his domain and her riches would stream down to her driver.

Hicks named his employed hands — John Joseph Poholsky, William Kuhlman and Frank Gore Williams, all ex-cons.

Greenery, Hicks demanded, knew nothing about the plot. She was discharged promptly.

By December, police had gathered together the accessories. Their records of the murder fluctuated a bit from the one given by Hicks, particularly in one vital detail.

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Hicks said he was with Flora, viewing a motion picture in a Cincinnati theater, when Miller was slaughtered. Kuhlman and Poholsky affirmed at Hicks' trial that he was with them amid the murder.

On the stand, Hicks changed his story, pointing the finger at Flora. He told the court she needed her sibling dead since she required his cash, and that she had been taking from him and producing his name on contract declarations.

Hicks additionally said she offered him $25,000 and guaranteed him a best legal counselor in the event that he would excuse her in his admission.

Nobody trusted the story Hicks told in court, especially his new form of Flora's part. A jury rapidly discovered him liable and sent him to the hot seat in May 1938.

Poholsky, Kuhlman and Williams were additionally executed.

Verdure acquired her sibling's domain and became progressively odd as the years passed. She purchased a 12-room house and utilized it as a distribution center for her accumulations while she lived in a flat in Cincinnati's Hotel Alms.

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In March 1954, the inn administration called police about an issue occupant. 

Verdure, 83, had not abandoned her flat for a long time, and was debilitating to shoot any individual who attempted to get in.

At the point when police battered down the entryway, they found the old lady living in the midst of heaps of nourishment that she had stored since World War II

A court pronounced her rationally sick and requested a sale to discard her effects, which the salesperson depicted as the "most strange gathering of stuff I have taken care of in numerous years."


Among the numerous things on the piece were a couple surrey, a 150-year-old cherry wood work area, classical furniture, outfits, artistic creations, huge amounts of canned merchandise, pianos and the 1934 Pontiac in which Hicks took her to visit her sibling. 

It had not been driven since the murder, composed George Stimson in "The Cincinnati Crime Book."


The court conferred Flora to an asylum, where she remained until her demise at 91 of every 1962.

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