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Download or read book Killing of a Legend written by Ronald E. Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mickey Thompson was a true Legend in his time partly because he won over 500 speed and endurance records in auto racing. To others his fame was from being a promoter of Stadium Racing events. He was best known for being the fastest man on wheels when he traveled 406.6 mph in 1960. On March 16, 1988 he and his wife were executed on their driveway for no apparent reason by two young black men who afterwards escaped on bicycles. The nation was shocked at the cold-blooded manner the shootings Years went by with no arrests and investigators shaking their heads that they had no concrete evidence. The TV program America's Most Wanted aired an episode on this old double homicide. After 13 years a person called a TV station stating that he was a friend of a friend who thought he saw something about the shootings. This was enough for an eager detective to check it out. The result was that a witness picked out the photo of Mickey's ex-partner as the person he saw in the area two days before the shootings.This began a long legal process of trying to build a case against this suspect who appeared to have committed the perfect crime. It took 18 years for justice to be served in the KILLING Of A LEGEND.