Willie Philpott, TX, 1960 July 15

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joined a group of searchers for Joyce Goff and led then
to her body in the plumb thicket,

FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, Fort Worth, Texas, 3-26-1999

joined a group of searchers for Joyce Goff and led them
to her body in the plumb thicket.

FORT WORTH STAR-TELEG RAM, Fort Worth, Texas, 3-26-19

joined a group of searchers for Joyce Goff and led then
to her body in the plumb thicket,

FORT WORTH STAR-TELIGRIM, Fort Worth, Texas, 3-26-1999

| PHILPOTT, Willie Edward

26-year-old black man, electrocuted Texas State Prison
on July 15, 1960, for the rape-murder of 10-year-old
Joyce Goff in Longview on Jan. 30, 1959. Appealed and
affirmed.(with this I possibly have enough = 332 South~
western (2nd) 323, Miss Goff was black also, Jury de-
liberated for 15 minutes before convicting on March 25,
1959. Body found ih a plumb thicket after she disappeared
from homeexkk wire coat hanger twisted around throat,
After his arrest, Philpot confessed thet the threw a white
woman, Janice Hunter, from the 19th floor of a Dallas
jotel on July 13, 1958, Also confessed beating and stran-
gling a white woman in a Dallas office building on Jan.

8, 1959, She recovered, Also admitted assaulting two
white women and four black women in Anniston, Ala., in
1949, and attacks on three men in the Dennison-Sherman
area in 1958. His arrest KXMMIE came about after he had

PHILPOTT, Willie Edward

26-year-old black man, electrocuted Texas State Prison

on July 15, 1960, for the rape-murder of 10-year-old
Joyce Goff in Longview on Jan. 30, 1959. Appealed and
affirmed. (with this I possibly have enough - 332 South-
western (2nd) 323, Miss Goff was black also, Jury de=
liberated for 15 minutes before convicting on March 25,
1959, Body found ih a plumb thicket after she disappeared
from homesmkk wire coat hanger twisted around throat.
After his arrest, Philpot confessed thet the threw a white
woman, Janice Hunter, from the 19th floor of a Dallas
Hotel on July 13, 1958, Also confessed beating and stran-
gling a white woman in a Dallas office building on Jan.
8, 1959, She recovered, Also admitted assaulting two
white women and four black women in Anniston, Ala,, in
1949, and attacks on three men in the Dennison-Sherman
area in 1958. His arrest HHH came about after he had

PHILPOTT, Willie Edward

26-year-old black man, electrocuted Texas State Prison
on July 15, eee) for the rape-murder of 10-year-old
Joyce Goff in Longview on Jan. 30, 1959. Appealed and
affirmed (with this 1 possibly have enough - 332 South-
western (2nd) 323, Miss Goff was black also,

Body found ih a plumb thicket after she disappeared
from homesxik wire coat hanger twisted around throat.
After his arrest, Philpot confessed that the threw a whit
woman, Janice Hunter, from the 19th floor of a Dallas
Hotel on July 13, 1958, Also confessed beating and stran.
gling a white woman in a Dallas office building on Jan,

8, 1959, She recovered, Also admitted assaulting two
white women and four black women in Anniston, Ala,, in
1949, and attacks on three men in the Dennison-Sherman
area in 1958, His arrest AKAM came about after he had



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