The Onion Field Killers - March 9 2023

March 9th: Jimmy Lee Smith and Gregory Powell kill (1963)
Two is not always better than one. On March 9th 1963 two officers pulled over a vehicle that, unbeknownst to them, contained two very dangerous offenders. Offenders who, after that night, would forever be known as the Onion Field Killers.
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