Leonard Tarrance, KY, 1955 March 18

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_ TARRENCE, Leonard

| Tarrence, an AWOL soldier, with his father, Roy, kidnapped
| Sheyear-old Francis McCormack, a Louisville, Ky., lawyer
| from the parking lot of a super market on Feb. 28, 1952
and drove him into a wooded area where they beat him to
death, weighted his body and threw it into a river. Their
motive was that they felt tha t McCormack was not fast
enough in §SeEXHEX obtaining a divorce between Leonard

and his wife. Leonard Tarrence,BShkSExSUXEREXHSEKXERKRBEX
BRAXSORX confessed and both he and his father died in the
electric chair_at Kentucky State Prison in Eddyville on
March I, 195%, when Leonard was 26 years olde

See Also: TARRENCE, Roy

Source: Master Detective, August, 1963

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| Tarrence » an AWOL soldier, with his father, Roy, kidnapped
| Sheyear-old Francis McCormack; a Louisville, Ky.; lawyer
from the parking lot of a super market on Feb. 28, 1952
and drove him into a wooded area where they beat him to
death, weighted his body and threw it into a river. Their
motive was that they felt tha t McCormack was not fast
enough in ESEEXHEX obtaining a divorce between Leonard
and his wife. Leonard Tarrence,SSheSRXSaXRHOXBOERXERK EEK
ZRAXSGEK confessed and both he and his father died in the
electric chair_at Kentucky State Prison in Eddyville on
March 18, 195%, when Leonard was 26 years old.
See Also: TARRENCE, Roy
Source: Master Detective, August, 1963

TARRENCE, Leonard

farrence, an AWOL soldier, with his father, Roy, kidnapped
Shayear-old Francis McCormack, a Louisville, Ky., lawyer
from the park lot of a super market on Feb. 28, 1952
and drove him into a wooded area where they beat him to
death, weighted his body and threw it into a river, Their

notive was that they felt tha t McCormack was not fast

enough in btaining a divorce between Leonard

and his wife. Leonard Tarrence ,ESAXSExSWCEREXEBEKXEALHEEL
confessed and both he and his father died in the

electric chaiyat Kentucky State Prison in Eddyville on

March IG, 1958, when Leonard was 26 years old.

See Also: TARRENCE, Roy

Source: Master Detective, August, 1963

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