FULL TEXT: Viola Hyatt told them she killed and mutilated two brothers living on her father's farm, then hauled the bodies up to 50 miles away before dumping them.
The
plump, 30-year-old resident of White Plains, Ala., a small community in
northeast Calhoun county, was questioned for about six hours Thursday night
before began to tell the story, officers added.
Waller
L. Allen, chief investigator for the State Department of Public Safely, said
two warrants were issued charging Miss Hyatt with murder. Sheriff Roy Snead of
Calhoun County said it will be up to a grand jury to fix the degree of murder.
Floyd Mann, state
public safety director, said four things contributed to the motive in
the brutal slayings three weeks ago.
He
listed them as physical abuse to her by the men, physical abuse to her father,
"drinking habits" of the men which irritated the family, and argument
over the use of a car.
Authorities
identified the victims as Emmett Harper, 48, and Lee Ander Harper, 55.
Both
lived in a box-type house trailer near the unpainted frame farm house where
Miss Hyatt lived with her elderly father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. H. D.
Hyatt.
The
bodies were found June 28 and 29 in rural areas near Gadsden, Ala. Their faces
were blasted beyond recognition by a shotgun charge and their arms, and legs
were hacked, off and missing.
The
first body was found in Etowah County beside an abandoned shack just off U.S.
11. The second was found the next day some 10 miles further south along the
highway. It too was dumped beside an empty house.
Police
said one body was 38 miles from the Hyatt house and the other house.
[“Sister
Tells Of Slaying 2 Brothers,” syndicated (AP),
The Morning Herald (Hagerstown, Md.), Jul. 18, 1959, p. 1]
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