Raymond Snowden: Difference between revisions

| date = September 22, 1957

| image = Raymond Snowden IDDOC.jpg

| caption = [[Death row]] mugshot, October 1956

| resting_place = Old Idaho State Penitentiary Cemetery

 

== Murder of Cora Dean ==

On Saturday, September 22, 1956, 34-year-old Snowden went bar-hopping and drank heavily in [[Garden City, Idaho|Garden City]],<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=1957-07-24 |title=State v. Snowden |url=https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/state-v-snowden-no-895760884 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918221016/https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/state-v-snowden-no-895760884 |archive-date=2023-09-18 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=VLex}}</ref> adjacent to Boise. During his time at his final bar, a nightclub, he encountered Cora Dean, who he recognized but had not yet met; after talking, he and Dean left the nightclub. According to Snowden, after he attempted to proposition her, he and Dean had an argument about who should pay for a taxi Dean wanted.<ref name="shfks">{{cite news |date=October 18, 1957 |title=Snowden hanged for knife slaying |page=1 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |agency=Associated Press |location=(Idaho) |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QKpfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jzIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3202%2C5824247}}</ref> Snowden also stated that he hit Dean, and Dean responded by kicking him, after she refused his sexual advances. Snowden pulled out a [[penknife]], which he used to slash Dean's throat. After slashing her throat, Snowden mutilated Dean's body by stabbing her at least 29 times. He then stole Dean's wallet and hailed a ride from a passing motorist, who drove Snowden back to Boise. Snowden changed clothes in a bowling alley, threw his bloodied clothes away, and discarded the murder weapon in a sewer. A boy riding his bicycle discovered Cora Dean's body in a Boise suburb on September 23, and Dean's mother positively identified the body. Snowden was arrested on the morning of September 24.<ref name="elbn2" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name="shfks" />

 

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