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Robert Nixon (July 19, 1919 – June 16, 1939) was an American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles "brick bat murders" of 1937.
Robert Nixon (filmmaker) Robert Henry Nixon (born 1954) is an American film director, writer and conservationist. His films, often focused on the battles of tribal peoples and field biologists, include Amazon Diary, America The Beautiful, The End of the Game, Fossey's War, Gorillas in the Mist, Endangered Species, The Last Rivermen, American ...
Robert Nixon killed five women and injured one other in Chicago and Los Angeles from 1936 to 1938. His claim to fame was his very basic but odd choice of murder weapon. Bricks.
Robert Nixon killed five women and injured one other in Chicago and Los Angeles from 1936 to 1938. His claim to fame was his very basic but odd choice of murder weapon.
Robert Nixon is an Academy Award-nominated director, producer and writer who makes documentaries about wildlife, nature and environmental issues. He has worked with Dian Fossey, Philip Glasier, the Earth Conservation Corps and other pioneers of conservation.
Dec 8, 2016 · A book review of Elizabeth Dale's study of Robert Nixon, a black man executed in 1939 after a controversial trial. The reviewer praises Dale's detailed reconstruction of the case and her analysis of the racial and class context of police torture in Chicago.
May 13, 2019 · Robert Nixon was an American serial killer and rapist who used a brick to murder five women in 1937-1938. He was executed by electrocution in 1939 and his case inspired some fictional events in the novel Native Son.
