A Decade Old Murder Solved - November 25 2020 - Daily True Crime
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Morning Cup of Murder
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🗓️ 25 November 2020
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| 0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away. |
| 0:02.7 | When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
| 0:06.1 | We have a weird homicide. |
| 0:08.9 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religious life. |
| 0:13.0 | The bad choices you make can come back to bite you if you aren't careful. |
| 0:19.5 | In the case of true crime, that carmic justice is celebrated. |
| 0:24.0 | It means that justice is paid and a dangerous person is placed in custody. |
| 0:28.8 | But sometimes that karma takes a lot of time to come around. |
| 0:33.9 | On November 25, 1872, a man was murdered during the course of a robbery, a murder that would take over a decade to solve. |
| 0:43.2 | So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. |
| 1:04.1 | On November 25, 1872, a Swedish immigrant in present-day Oklahoma named Henry Fiegel was killed during an apparent robbery. |
| 1:10.0 | After making a purchase at a local store, Henry was followed by two men as he headed for Fort Gibson. Just outside of the fort, the assailants caught up with him, shot him six times, crushed his head with a rock, looted his body, and left him to die. |
| 1:20.7 | In total, the men were only able to get 25 cents worth of money and items less than $6 in today's money. Seems like a very small price to pay |
| 1:31.1 | for a stranger's life. And the two men who took his life were two Cherokee, a man named William |
| 1:37.1 | Parchmeal, and a boy named James Archini, who at the time was just 10 years old. Now, given the time period in which this murder took place, this is the part of the story that differs depending on the accounts you read. |
| 1:51.3 | Some say that the men were caught, tried, and convicted shortly after the murder, but just before they could be executed, somehow managed to escape. |
| 2:00.6 | They remained on the run for over a decade before finally being recaptured. |
| 2:04.6 | They were, of course, resentenced to hang, but the now 23-year-old James Archini attempted to use his age to seek leniency. |
| 2:13.6 | He was only 10 years old, after all, and kept out of trouble for the 13 years he was on the run. |
| 2:19.2 | The court, however, made it abundantly clear that his age had no bearing on his sentence. |
| 2:25.2 | Another version claims that the case itself remained unsolved for almost 12 years, until in 1884, |
| 2:32.1 | a U.S. Deputy Marshal conducted his own investigation and pinpointed William |
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