02409cam a2200373 i 4500 513101498 TxAuBib 20150717120000.0 141024s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014041595 9780803256637 1695 0803256639 1695 DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda Hewitt, James W. In cold storage : sex and murder on the Plains / James W. Hewitt. Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2015. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015] 132 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Law in the American West In 1973 the small southwest Nebraska railroad town of McCook became the unlikely scene of a grisly murder. More than forty years later, author James W. Hewitt returns to the scene and unearths new details about what happened.After pieces of Edwin and Wilma Hoyts dismembered bodies were found floating on the surface of a nearby lake, authorities charged McCook resident Harold Nokes and his wife, Ena, with murder. Harold pleaded guilty to murder and Ena pleaded guilty to two counts of wrongful disposal of a dead body, but the full story of why and how he murdered the Hoyts has never been told.Hewitt interviews law enforcement officers, members of the victims family, weapons experts, and forensic psychiatrists, and delves into newspaper reports and court documents from the time. Most significant, Harold granted Hewitt his first and only interview, in which the convicted murderer changed several parts of his 1974 confession. In Cold Storage takes readers through the evidence, including salacious details of sex and intrigue between the Hoyts and the Nokeses, and draws new conclusions about what really happened between the two families on that fateful September night. 20150717. Nokes, Harold 1928-2017. Nokes, Ena 1929- Hoyt, Edwin 1918- Hoyt, Wilma 1917- Murder Nebraska McCook Case studies. Murder investigation Nebraska McCook Case studies. Crimes and criminals Nebraska. Nebraska author. Law in the American West.