Deadly Hero: The High Society Murder that Created Hysteria in the Heartland (18 page)

“It was a sore spot for them, my father and
grandfather,” the sixty-three-year-old said in 2014. “They never talked about
it much. They just told me my uncle John was murdered, but they never said who
or why.” John had to learn about his uncle in bits and pieces, from cousins and
friends, and still has the aviator helmet John Jr. had once so proudly worn.

Like Judge Kennamer, Dr. Gorrell and his wife
Alice would be seated with the legal team who represented their son, and while
the case had become so much more to everyone else, to the Gorrell family, it
was only about one thing.

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John Gorrell Jr. (
Courtesy of Family)

Crime Scene as it looks today. Search “Philbrook Museum
Tulsa” on Google Maps.

Phil Kennamer (
Courtesy of Tulsa World)

Phil Kennamer (
Courtesy of Tulsa World)

Virginia Wilcox (
Courtesy of Family)

Sidney Born Jr.

Floyd Huff (
Courtesy of Tulsa World)

Tom Wallace with Ted Bath (
Courtesy of Tulsa World)

J. Berry King and William “Dixie” Gilmer

Defense Team: A. Flint Moss, Herman Young, and Charles
Stuart. Not pictured is Charles Coakley. (
Courtesy of Tulsa World)

Judge Thurman Hurst (
Courtesy of Oklahoma Historical
Society)

Coded messages exchanged between Phil Kennamer and Preston
Cochrane (
Courtesy of Tulsa World)

Preston Cochrane (
Courtesy of Oklahoma Historical Society)

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