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by James G. Hollock


  rape, of Defino, 6–8, 19–20, 151; arraignment for, 30; arrests for, 21–22, 151; effects of, 7, 12, 31, 185, 243–44, 359; grand jury for, 31–33; Hoss appealing conviction for, 169, 271, 331; Hoss denying, 22–24, 30, 168; Hoss’s sentencing for, 151, 168–70; Hoss’s stories about, 38, 168; Hoss’s threats about, 88; sentencing for, 168–70; trials for, 33–35, 220, 251; Zurka convicted of, 251

  rape, of Maxwell: Hoss working up to, 91–93; Maxwell keeping secret, 95, 185; officials’ agreement to keep out of trial, 185, 208–11

  rapes: committed in crime spree following escape, 220; not at Falconer break-in, 15

  reading: Hoss studying law, 242–43; Hoss’s dependence on books, 236–38

  Reegan, Daniel, 327

  rehabilitation: Hoss claiming desire for, 273, 341, 345; in plan to reform Western Penitentiary, 261; right to speedy trial and, 247, 257–59

  Reilly, Patrick “Bus,” 309; catatonic after Peterson’s murder, 302–4; in Delker’s version of Peterson’s murder, 328; Mc-Grogan trying to signal, 294, 323–24; on Peterson’s killers, 312, 343; as rec room observer, 292–94; testimony on Peterson’s murder, 310, 325, 329; watching Peterson’s murder, 295–300, 329

  Remmick, Milt, 56, 75

  remorse, Hoss’s lack of, 87, 162, 224–25, 313, 353

  reputation, Hoss’s, 349; among inmates, 202, 252–53, 265–66, 277; bragging about, 42, 87, 266; as car thief, 29, 42; children suffering from, 352; girls fawning and, 318; growing, 199–200; media coverage boosting, 275, 313; planning violence to increase, 274, 289; self-image and, 202, 255; violence increasing, 86, 265–66, 350

  Ricchuito, Herman, 89

  Rice, Owen, 262, 263

  Robb, John, 241; on Hoss’s demand for speedy trial, 242–43, 245–47, 258; motion for dismissal of charges for, 250–51

  Robinson, Oscar, 265

  Robinson, William “Robby”: as commissioner of correction, 343–44; giving Hoss’s clothes away, 228–29; holding coroner’s inquest after Peterson’s murder, 309–10; on Hoss, 36–38, 343–45; as warden of Allegheny County Jail, 36–39

  Robson, Barbara, 96–97

  “Ron” (Zurka’s alias in Defino kidnapping), 3–4, 7–12

  Roney, Dave, 346

  Roth, Howard, 218

  Rutledge, Marvin, 355

  Rydell, David, 288

  Santone, Esther, 67, 207–8, 217

  Santone, Mario, 67, 207–8

  Scaife, Cordelia, 314–15

  Scaife, Richard Mellon, 315

  Schaal, Dennis, 68–69

  school, Hoss in, 188–89, 197

  Scoggins, David, 327

  sentencing, for Peterson’s murder, 331, 339, 342

  sentencing, Hoss’s: additional time for escape, 237; compilation of, 167, 331–32; for Defino’s rape, 151, 168–70; for Peterson’s murder, 331, 339; for Peugeots’ murders, 198–99; for Zanella’s murder, 204, 218, 231, 239–40, 257

  Sermons, Melvin “Whiskey,” 279, 312–13; Delker’s trial for stabbing, 287–88, 333

  Sewicki, J. R., 351

  Shaler Police Department, 31, 88

  Shapp, Milton, 331; forbidding use of basement cells in Home Block, 280–82, 284, 308; officers’ union rep meeting with, 311–12; opposition to death penalty, 249, 312, 347; at Peterson’s funeral, 308–9; prison reforms by, 249, 273, 280–82

  Sharon (Hoss’s prison girlfriend), 271–72, 288–89, 310

  Shute, Whitman, 185–87, 337, 356

  Simonetti, Don, 13, 16–18, 73

  Sioux Falls, North Dakota, 131

  Sizemore, Barbara Zanella, 56, 74–75, 273

  Skyline Motel (Jackson, Minnesota), 135

  Smith, Robert, 113–14

  Snyder, Edgar, 227, 238; after trial for Zanella’s murder, 218–19; appealing Hoss’s murder conviction, 231–32, 235, 240, 250; criticizing prosecution’s case in trial for Zanella murder, 205, 217; defending Hoss for Zanella’s murder, 200–202, 205, 207–8, 216; efforts to suppress Hoss’s confessions, 212, 215; efforts to suppress mention of Peugeots, 212; Fagan’s relationship with Baxter and, 209–10; missing penalty phase of trial, 220, 224; resigning as public defender, 232, 235

  Snyder, Marguerite, 278

  Snyder, Stephanie, 220

  Sokol, Theodore and Teddy, 65, 67, 205

  Split Verdict Act, trial for Zanella’s murder under, 218, 238; defense’s complaints about, 235, 253–54

  Springer, Officer, 70–72

  Spruill, Geno, 270, 349; escape by, 268–69, 271; Hoss and, 262–66, 268

  Starlite Motel (Fort Dodge, Iowa), 137

  Start, Joseph, 97–98, 202, 223; interrogations of Hoss by, 159–62; tips on Peugeots’ grave sites and, 185–87, 337, 356

  state police, Pennsylvania, 53; Peterson’s son joining, 351; Western Penitentiary and, 263, 267, 304–6

  State Regional Correction Facility (Greensburg), 168–69

  stealing: by Hoss as child, 189, 197; by Hoss’s father, 188. See also armed robberies; car thefts

  Steffen, Emil, 137

  steroids, prison experiments with, 270

  Stevens, Tim, 312

  Steven’s Motel (Mitchell, South Dakota), 130

  Stewart, Harold, 99–101

  Stockhausen, Inez, 67, 207–8 Strauss, Samuel, 219, 317; on defense’s complaints about trial for Zanella’s murder, 198, 235, 238–39; Hoss and, 169, 237; in penalty phase of trial for Zanella’s murder, 212, 221–23, 227; presiding over Lubresky’s trial for escape, 248–49; presiding over trial for Zanella’s murder, 198, 200, 206, 210–11, 216, 218; sentencing by for Zanella’s murder, 228, 231

  strength, Hoss’s unusual, 29, 36, 144–46, 188–89, 238, 270, 289. See also weightlifting, Hoss’s

  Suchevich, George, 40

  suicide: Hoss asking FBI for opportunity, 159, 175; Hoss’s, 349–50; Hoss’s forewarnings about, 147, 345–46

  supermax prison, 312

  Supreme Court, U.S., 263; on capital punishment, 220, 257, 278; on penalty phase of trials, 221

  Symkiewicz, Mary Ann, 256–57

  Tarentum, Pennsylvania, 81, 190

  Tarr, Ben, 65, 67, 205, 238

  tattoos, Hoss’s, 38, 95, 146

  television: on search for Hoss, 84, 98; on Zanella’s murder, 81–83. See also media

  temper, Hoss’s, 6, 29, 91–92

  textile shop, in Allegheny County Workhouse, 39–40

  Thomas, Herb, 288–89, 307

  Thompson, Cliff, 53

  Thompson, Edna Stewart, 100; concern about Linda and Lori Mae’s absence, 110, 117; desperation for return of bodies, 184, 187, 199; Linda and Lori moving in with, 101–2; reporting Linda and Lori Mae’s absence, 120, 177; response to loss of family, 240–41, 347

  Thompson, William H., 100, 120; death of, 347; desperation for return of bodies, 184, 187, 199

  Thornburgh, Dick, in power struggle with Duggan, 163–64, 181–83, 315

  Tiffin, Ohio, Hoss in, 124–26, 133

  Tomayko, Carl, 167

  Toner, Vee, 201, 218

  Toranczyk, Mike, 278

  Travelers Motel (Waterloo, Iowa), 138, 146–47

  trial, for Defino rape, 33–35

  trial, for Peugeots’ kidnapping: applicability of Interstate Detainer Act in, 246–47; delay in, 242, 246, 256; Hoss planning escape en route to, 242–43, 246; Hoss’s demand for speed in, 240, 242–43, 245–46, 257–59; Hoss’s lawyers for, 241; Hoss’s “witnesses” for, 243, 245–46, 250; indictments for dismissed, 250–51, 258– 59; state’s plan to seek death penalty, 244

  trial, for Zanella’s murder, 198; appeal of conviction from, 231–32, 238–40, 242, 246, 250; circumstantial evidence in, 204, 206; death sentence changed to life in prison, 253–54, 257; death sentence in, 239–40; defense strategy in, 211–13; defense’s complaints about, 235–36, 238, 253–54, 271; Hoss’s demeanor in, 204; jury for, 200–202, 218; lawyers’ comments after, 218–19; Maxwell testifying in, 208–11; penalty phase in, 238–39, 253–54, 257; Peugeots’ case included in penalty phas
e, 212, 219–20, 235; prosecution’s case in, 205–16; rumors of escape plan during, 203, 214; security for, 203– 4, 214, 239; under Split Verdict Act, 218, 235–36; summations in, 217–18

  trials, for Peterson’s murder, 313; Butler’s, 333–35; change of venue denied for, 316– 17; closing arguments in, 328–30; defense cases in, 327–28; Delker’s, 333–35, 340–42; Fagan preparing for, 314; Hickton prosecuting, 315–17, 319–20; Hickton showing premeditation in, 320–21, 325–26, 329–30, 333; killers appealing convictions in, 340–42; McGrogan’s, 335; McGrogan’s testimony on, 314; prosecution’s case in, 319–26; Reilly’s testimony in, 325; rejection of premeditation argument, 327, 331; rumor of Hoss testifying at, 326; security at, 325; sentencing for, 339; verdicts in, 331; Zimmerman defending Hoss in, 316, 322; Zimmerman’s defense strategy in, 319, 321–23, 325–26, 329

  Trozzi, Herm, 62–65, 68–69, 75

  25 Rules of Effective Writing (Flesch), 236

  Tyree, Sheriff, 105

  Udin, Sala, 312

  uniforms, for Allegheny County Workhouse inmates, 39, 49

  unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, Hoss arrested on warrant for, 97, 162

  U.S. Marshals Service, Hoss in custody of, 164, 166

  Usiadek, Walter “Cutsy,” 20, 22–25, 73

  Valenta, Bill, 215

  Van der Voort, Robert, 235; refusing to allow Hoss to look for bodies, 181–83; sentencing Hoss for Defino rape, 168–70

  VanAucker, Sam, 343

  Vargo, Sgt., 299

  Verona, Pennsylvania, 55; busyness of, 59, 69, 73; memorial to fallen officers in, 356–57; Zanella growing up in, 56–57

  Verona Police: communication problems of, 62, 73; confusion about who was shot by Hoss, 70–71; personnel of, 55–56; race in, 57–58; search for Hoss and, 61, 74

  Vignovic, Maureen (aka Jill Joy), 311

  visits, to Hoss in prison: desperation for, 236–37, 336; drying up, 251–52, 337; extreme restrictions on, 344; by Fawkes, 251; by Jill Joy, 272, 275–76, 310–11; by women, 268–69, 345, 349

  voices, Falconer identifying Hoss’s, 15, 25, 30

  Walcroft, William, 70

  Walker, P. E., 137

  Walters, Gil, 270, 274; after Peterson’s murder, 303–5, 308; on Home Block basement used for recreation, 284–85; on problems in Western Penitentiary, 261–64, 269; relations with staff, 267, 287, 304–5; in rumors of conspiracy in Peterson’s murder, 327–28

  wanted posters, FBI’s, 124, 131, 136

  Warner, Fred, 354–55; Hoss effigy by, 180, 230; Linda Peugeot working for, 101–2

  Warner, Marian, 101–2

  Waterloo, Iowa: gangster Tommy Carroll in, 137, 139; Hoss captured in, 137–46, 212; interrogations of Hoss in, 159–62, 173; police capturing Hoss in, 160, 213

  Weaver, Jimmy, 262–63, 304; after Peterson’s murder, 301–2; unable to stop Peterson’s murder, 290, 299

  Wecht, Cyril, 206, 326

  weightlifting, Hoss’s, 40–41, 193, 237, 248, 250, 252

  Wellington, Ohio: Hoss and Lori Mae in, 121–22; Hoss sending flowers from, 122–23, 176

  Werner, Steve, 312

  West Deer Police, 13–17, 19, 73

  West Virginia, Maxwell forced to drive Hoss through, 90–92

  Western Penitentiary; prison life: after Peterson’s murder, 303–5; anger at Walters after Peterson’s murder, 303–5; closing of, 358; efforts to reform, 261–63, 280–81, 285–86; efforts to transfer troublemakers from, 267, 274; especially dangerous group of inmates in, 291; FBI taking Hoss from to look for bodies, 181–82; history of Home Block in, 280, 285; Hoss at, 170, 228, 230; Hoss planning escape before sentencing to, 43; Hoss’s conditions in, 273–74; Hoss’s son in, 351–52; inmate assaults on staff in, 270; inmate on inmate assaults in, 246, 270; inmates from taken out into community, 267–68, 271; loosening security at, 281–82, 285–87; officers’ union forming at, 276; Peterson family attending memorial service at, 337; racial tension in, 264, 279–80, 288, 297–98, 328; riots in, 263, 280, 285; rumors of conspiracy in Peterson’s murder, 312–13, 327–28, 339–40; state police taking over, 304–6. See also Home Block

  Wheeling, West Virginia, 96; Hoss abandoning Maxwell in, 94, 97, 152

  Will-O-Motel (Tiffin, Ohio), 126–27, 133

  “William Young,” Hoss using as alias, 132, 138, 144, 146

  Williams, Jack, 47–48

  Wilson, Larry, 104

  Witherspoon Question, about death penalty, 201

  Wymer, Terry, 113–14

  Yanchak, Janina, 60–61

  Zanella, Barbara. See Sizemore, Barbara Zanella

  Zanella, Joseph, Sr., 198–99

  Zanella, Joseph Paul “Sonny”: aftermath of shooting, 67–70; community’s affection for, 85; death of, 75, 82; family of, 56–57; following Hoss, 62–65; funeral for, 117–19, 121, 123–24; Hoss slandering, 162; notified about sighting of Hoss, 61–62; on police force, 56, 59–60; requesting backup from Oakmont Police, 63–65, 205; in Verona’s memorial to fallen officers, 356–57. See also murder, of Zanella; trial, for murder of Zanella

  Zanella, Mary Ella Langus, 56–58, 206, 214

  Zanella family, 56, 85, 118, 198

  Zelek, Joy, 118–19

  Zimmerman, Gary: defending Hoss for Peterson’s murder, 316, 326, 332; defense strategy in trial for Peterson’s murder, 319, 325–26, 329; fake story about extra Y chromosome by, 323, 326; in Hoss’s trial for Peterson’s murder, 321–29; vow to appeal verdict in Peterson’s murder, 331

  Zoller, Dick, 57–58, 60

  Zurka, Richard: arrested and indicted, 21, 151; Defino and, 23–24, 33, 251; Hoss and, 23–24, 234; using “Ron” in Defino kidnapping, 3–4, 7–12

 

 

 


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