Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? Let’s get started. Now, sporting a white gauze bandage that covered 16 stitches on his nose from a recent surgery to remove melanoma, he said he felt relief that this was finally happening.
Anything to move the investigation along, even as his health faltered and doctors implanted two dozen stents in his heart and legs to keep his blood moving.
Myers, 72, a retired barbecue restaurant owner, had been calling for his sister’s exhumation ever since. Instead, they had exposed contamination and bungling at state labs in Kansas and Florida and revealed that investigators didn’t actually have a true copy of Christine or Cliff Walker’s DNA. They had become the subjects of Truman Capote’s true-crime classic, “In Cold Blood.” The Tampa Bay Times wrote in January about the possible connections linking the infamous killers to the unsolved Sarasota County case.ĭetectives there had traveled to Kansas in 2012 to exhume the remains of Hickock and Smith, to compare their DNA with sperm found in Christine’s underwear.īut the results of those tests had so far failed to connect the Walker murders to the Kansas killers. Among them: Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, who’d killed another family of four on a Kansas farm a month before in November 1959. A six-decade investigation had stumped a dozen detectives and amassed some 600 suspects.
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