This is a thread to discuss one of the most cold-blooded murders of all time. The horror and shock of the Lowell Andrews Case. Lowell was an honor student at the University of Kansas in 1958. When home for Thanksgiving weekend that year, he did the unthinkable:
While his parents and sister were relaxing watching TV, Lowell finished a book that he was reading, put on his best suit, went downstairs with two guns in his hand and shot his parents and sister multiple times to death.
Than he went through the house opening drawers and scattering contents, opening windows to make it look like a burglary had taken place. Lowell drove to see a late movie, chatting with the personnel at the theater, afterwords he left the movie theater, threw the guns into a nearby river, than went home, calling the police to report a "robbery."
When LE showed up, Lowell was outside petting his dog and showed no remorse for what had happened. When the coroner showed up he said, something like, "They are in there, I don't care what you do with them."
He continued to proclaim his innocence, until later that night when he confessed to the murders to the family's church pastor. He was arrested and charged the following day. Legal authorities tried an insanity defense, but it didn't work. Lowell Andrews was convicted, than executed via hanging on November 30, 1962.
He was on death row with two other inmates who robbed and killed another family in an unrelated case. (Richard Hickcock and Perry Smith) Authorities said that Lowell, in contrast to them, was always polite, very quiet, and withdrawn. To this day, what exactly set him off that night remains a mystery. However, authorities close to the case have said Lowell fantasized about killing his family so that he could inherit the family farm. I read that he thought about poisoning them, but was concerned that "What if that didn't work right?" All three murders were convicted of their crimes and hanged. are also mentioned in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which later became a movie, and I understand has been remade several times.
You can read more about Lowell's case here:
http://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/andrews-lowell-lee.htm
This is chilling!
Satch
While his parents and sister were relaxing watching TV, Lowell finished a book that he was reading, put on his best suit, went downstairs with two guns in his hand and shot his parents and sister multiple times to death.
Than he went through the house opening drawers and scattering contents, opening windows to make it look like a burglary had taken place. Lowell drove to see a late movie, chatting with the personnel at the theater, afterwords he left the movie theater, threw the guns into a nearby river, than went home, calling the police to report a "robbery."
When LE showed up, Lowell was outside petting his dog and showed no remorse for what had happened. When the coroner showed up he said, something like, "They are in there, I don't care what you do with them."
He continued to proclaim his innocence, until later that night when he confessed to the murders to the family's church pastor. He was arrested and charged the following day. Legal authorities tried an insanity defense, but it didn't work. Lowell Andrews was convicted, than executed via hanging on November 30, 1962.
He was on death row with two other inmates who robbed and killed another family in an unrelated case. (Richard Hickcock and Perry Smith) Authorities said that Lowell, in contrast to them, was always polite, very quiet, and withdrawn. To this day, what exactly set him off that night remains a mystery. However, authorities close to the case have said Lowell fantasized about killing his family so that he could inherit the family farm. I read that he thought about poisoning them, but was concerned that "What if that didn't work right?" All three murders were convicted of their crimes and hanged. are also mentioned in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which later became a movie, and I understand has been remade several times.
You can read more about Lowell's case here:
http://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/andrews-lowell-lee.htm
This is chilling!
Satch