From Atlanta To The Grave

they were taking. You might will be long for come up. Somebody, someone gonna surface somewhere literally was found shutting the head and the wolf was found to the knights in the side. I got a call about three or four block in the morning say yeah for your boys, just gonna kill kill from my heart radio and doghouse pictures. This is

fight night. I'm Jeff Keaton. Chicken Man was in New York getting assurances from Frank Molten and other high level gangsters that he and his family were safe, but he had to get back to Atlanta to reassure them because the newspapers were telling a different story altogether. Around that same time, Hudson and Amos had received a tip about an apartment used by the robbers before and after the heist. The detectives got a search warrant and investigated the premises.

Here's j D with me in two thousand and two as he recalls the details. We look at the parting, but they are assembled, and I think they looking around who the parting was because we went to the part then that night was day okay, and you see how we are sitting out. Yeah, cigarette out of the sugar and cigure. Yeah, your looks all of a sudden lack of black. We would have disappeared. The very things it is like we did disappeared when you guys got there,

it looked like that. Yeah, was there still a cigarette burning? No? No, well folded diapers and I'm pullded diapers, babies, baby backers okay on the bed all right. That was on the kicken table that was confuted fried chicken in place, partially eaten. Okay, drinks, possive men high. I tracked the pope or somebody eating month fiece off. A matter of fact, when you're in the holes, steel full of drivers acts ut on the table.

It just last which sharps me that when the hustle came down Jackson Parkway and tried to get into proper, they looked back to when they saw him and got a macau and took off. Okay, okay, so you think that all that stuff that you were just describing was left from that night, the night of the robbery. Oh yeah, how we heard Mr Hudson. That's like they just disappeared.

They saw it, and then I think it's their hell get Those guys have known how to get into the department to the right, but they went down to the wrong street. Gut j D told me that the robbers had a lookout on the walkway outside of the Stash apartment. He would have seen any cars turning from High Tower Road into the parking lot directly below them. Once the lookout spotted the gangsters, the robbers quickly grabbed the loot and ran down the back staircase to their getaway cars

and sped away on Jackson Parkway. Imagine the panic and chaos of that scene. And they went on and read the at least one because Rick and Ridable right for the black tip, and they took off with the money, and they would go up again when I write. At the apartment, Hudson found James Henry Hall's driver's license and bed sheets that matched pillow cases which were found at

the crime scene at Handy Drive. These pillow cases were discovered in the duffel bag recovered by the police and were used to collect and haul the cash and jewelry stolen from the party goers. Here's more about the investigation from j D. Let me get back to this thing. You've talked to You've made him, and I'm sorry you've You've talked to this guy for a guy has spilled his guys, and it's thank you to keep him in prisident,

to keep him alive. The apartment has obviously been left, everything just sitting there because ran I haven't good way and I got panicked they were, and now you're on the news trying to convince basically the nation and the city the Chicken man wasn't responsible for this, to keep him alive, even though the Atlanta Fleet and the FBI are saying that he did and was responsible. See, I would not ever talked to the FBI because I knew they were gonna try to take credit anything we did.

And they started stuff about some guy that called it bought some guys in Jackson Villa who was opposed of committed to rob. And then there were some guys out of apronment him fbick n. What they gave me, the pictures and everything. These are the guys. We got good information. They committed to right and I said bullshit. It seemed like they were trying to commence us to They had some information out at Baltimore that somebody at the baltimoreket it,

I said, bullshit. Anytime there's a high flow file case in this country, FBI runs by in Hollis at you sit around and listen to what you work and try to get in on your interviews. He runs backers office, right and right, a bit of port that he's done, and when you lock up, somebody d writes his quote back who he called. Okay, the paper shuffles, you know, and most place don't I have thing to do with them, because they surrounded. They's they they still just get cases.

So the high profile case attracted them, and they came with all these theories, you know, their profiles and all these lab explace, all these experts to have all of the game. They played again, those fellow dollarsm But they don't they you know, because they this what the pup is to. J D did not have fond memories of working with the FBI. In fact, he didn't seem to respect them either, even though they were all over this case. J D kept the details of the investigation close to

the vest. He and Joe Amos continue to pursue all leads, waiting for breaking the case. Nothing happened for a while, and amazon daughter got Keith. Remember Emerson Dorsey. He was born in Atlanta and moved to New York City about a decade before the robbery. He became a drug dealer and a stick up man, and he was driven out of New York by a combination of pressure from Shirley Chisholm, the New York state representative, and the black mafia he

had somehow piste off. J D believed that Emerson put together the crew who pulled off the heist as a means for getting back in New York's black mafia. But in the end they got to him. He was keeled at his home and they would investigating, and so I had his interests. I called out and talked to the investigator basic over that this still sus says. She was talking about alone and someone knocked on the door, and he said, hold on a minute, baby, somebody's on the door.

They the phone down. I went to the door and yo. The said come in man, I'm glad to see you, amte. But while come on the end and uh, Baton told us, and she's up random as here. I talked to you later. Well later he was found shot in the head. You know. One was found cut. She was cut across her rest, across her stomach. Nice steps too, nice stuff those sides. She was dead. What said means that faith talk at Garth right and made him tell about the rock at once.

Pep told about the round to kill? Where did that take place? In his home? Indicator georgan indicator Jorge. So they found his body shot and her body light and sat in the next they actually found the body to get up okay in his own Here are some of the specifics from an Atlantic Constitution article. On March five, Dorsey had been shot in the back of the head and above the right eye. He had also been slashed across the face with a knife. His girlfriend was Rachel Worthy.

She was found with four butcher knives buried in her body, one between the shoulder blades, one in the neck, and two in her chest. When relatives called about the bodies after stopping at the house, police noted that they'd been dead for some time. Police also said that Dorsey's Cadillac was missing. Here's what j D thought, so amazed that you got a son was forced to pay us somebody and when he told they killed and I think they

had to data babill Baby Humphred. Baby Ray Humphrey was one of the robbers we told you about from the last episode. We believe he was working under fast Eddie Parker's command, but j D thinks it was Emerson Dorsey who recruited him at Wesley Merritt's pool Hall, along with another hustler named Charles Lee. This was his response when I asked him where Baby Ray Humphrey and Charles Lee were killed in Atlanta somewhere and had shot Okay and had at about the ton of the sty and Sharley

nobody remember what over somewhere around the stadium. This is from the Atlantic Constitution, March nineteen seventy one, about three weeks after Emerson Dorsey was killed, Baby Ray Humphrey had been shot in the left temple execution style and had been dead for several days. When police entered his apartment. Baby Ray had a six page arrest record, including recent

narcotics charges. In addition to the thirty five thousand j D mentioned, about two hundred thousand dollars worth of heroin was also found stashed in a motorcycle in his apartment. We've been unable to find much information about Charles Lee's murder, and when I spoke to j D again, I learned why I know bad it was killing there. Nobody gave a damn about black killings, a powerful statement that still

resonates in today's society. Baby Ray Humphrey had thirty five dollars cash and two hundred thousand dollars in heroin, and his killers didn't even look for it. Charles Lee was killed and no one seemed to notice, least of all the newspapers. We can't find anything about his murder. Bookie Brown was dead. We think Lillian Dabney was killed with him. So the robbers still on the run were James Henry Hall,

McKinley Rogers, and fast Eddie Parker. We assumed they were on their way to New York to connect with Richard Wheeler and split the take. Here's Chicken Man and j D discussing the huge obstacle they would face to fence the jewelry they had stolen, all the jury stuff that were taken. It weren't gonna be long for a come up somebody. Someone're gonna surface somewhere. Uh, that would indicate somebody as I'm gonna do it because it took some brains and watches and women. Julry was cost of out

of money. So now what pawn broker, so running the risk. I've given somebody some money on some jewelry and the guy who told him a jar to come to that punch, Yeah, gonna pay him with you. You're gonna take his goddamn j you know, send his boys that to take his goddamn Jerry. Don't take his mine. If you didn't like it, if you didn't like the stuff was too hot. Fin about the day it was too hot, and that they couldn't do anything with this step. Okay, that's what doesn't

That's one of the things to the next meet. J D knew it was useless looking at pawn shops for the stolen jewelry. No pawnbroker would touch loot that hot. There as an article at which I would reported that. I told him, then they better come and find me. Give up. But I think's got a guy. J D searched for the robbers, what the black moth, It did the same. He wanted them alive and in jail. But these gangsters like Frank Moten wanted them dead. It wasn't

about the money, it was about retribution. Here's j D in two thousand and two sharing details about where they went after they high tailed it out of Atlanta. Okay, remember Tea, what happened? Mean Okay, I said they they might go to Ester the dead. Okay, they go to New Orleans, they dead. Miami, go to Mami they dead. Okay,

go to Birmingham, they dead. So we're saying if they got way able to come to sign them and so we had decided they were going to go to the Jatil Islands and see if they said if I was they might go to Jack and Math for a while. Would you be that they didn't go to not to but they went to Assigns. No, they humber to uh Brunswick.

George Brunswick, Brunswill is us right here there. A business owner in Brunswick apparently became suspicious when McKinley Rogers and other members in his crew spent wads of cash in the shop, so he called the cops. Local police found out that McKinley Rogers and James Henry Hall used to be classmates in Brunswick, and when they heard about the

robbery in Atlanta, they called j d's departments. JO and I had started to go to JACKI al Allden and look for because he said that if they smiled, they went to someone at jackil Allend to someplace go hide. I put well, and the truth matter is they did. They went to Brunswick, Georgia, because that's near west. Some

of the guys who robbers lived grew up. I mean, and I'll sit in office one day and this guy called a corporate from the Brunswick Police Department called and said that he read about their robbery in the Atlanta newspaper and that there were about ten people at the Holiday End who stayed that for about a week along and they wouldn't come out. We're not sure who else joined McKinley Rogers James Henry Hall and fast Eddie Parker

when they left Atlanta. But we do know they were conspicuous when they wouldn't allow the cleaning crew to enter any of their rooms at the hotel in Brunswick made it. I think it's that eight rooms for five it was five eight rooms, okay, not a man. And they went out on a bank breath. They brought on a verything and Brunswick go everything okay, and that when they at that food, the servants had to send a food at the door and leave they were dead and get it. Okay,

it wouldn't come out. But when they came out, they brought up all the bubec and they left town. After McKinley Rogers and his crew aroused suspicion in Brunswick, Georgia, they decided to move on to a different city. According to the Brunswick newspaper, two cops pulled them over on their way out of town and got their identification, but

for some reason they let them go. J D and Joe Amos were about to head to Brunswick, but they got a call from the local police who informed them that the robbers were gone and it would be a wasted trip they went not on seventeen and a couple of cards, one of which was the red product of the back time wait, one of which was the what was the red product for the black croc? Who that? I guess In the meantime, I understand that about his mother,

A car riders his mother house. In one of Robin Goorde it was a rape in the restroom got him birth. The red Pontiac with the black top is the same one j D described leaving the stash house, and one witness said they saw the same car at the robbery scene on Handy Drive. After the robbers left Brunswick, it was a few months before they were seen again. Here's j D and uh. Nobody dreamed these foods we'll go to New York. But they did. And that's when I

said they're dead. They go to New York. They're dead because they rode to Black Markeia in the Black Marpie con killer. I got a call about three or four o'clock in the morning. Guys say, lieutenant, yeah for your boys just got killed. J D talked me through the details of how McKinley Rogers and James Henry Hall were killed. He found out there was a third man in the car named David Phillips. We have no information about him

except he was from Brunswick, Georgia as well. We don't know if he was involved in the robbery or just picked up at some point. We also don't know how, when or where these guys split from fast Eddie Parker. Here I am with j Dam food and drove in front of oven Battles please quick as please? What look still okay? And uh stop? So they go in front of this liquor store in New York. Is it in harm Boklyn? I got it down there? They drive in baby Bam. They're all shot dead. They stopped. They going

to the buscle base. They did right, but the shot dead? Ye? Wrong? Please right? And the shot that and so this is why moving a heavy In retrospect, it looks like the robbers were partying and spending loads of cash in the establishments of the gangsters they robbed, and word got out quickly who and where they were. Looking back in my notes, the name j D just mentioned, Evan bin Um a k a. Quickie, was the same name from an earlier portion of my interview when j D asked me to

turn off the tape recorder. He only did that one time. I vaguely remember him telling me that he went to visit Quickie in a fancy hotel suite in Atlanta just after the robbery, and that the suite was lined with bodyguards carrying assault rifles. I remember thinking how crazy it was that j D went there alone and didn't seem to care that all these guys were brandishing weapons. He was only interested in information about the robbery. In any case,

it seems like Quickie was one powerful gangster. J D called the NYPD when he learned about who was murdered in Brooklyn. So I called the pretty anything about it. So he's an excited dad. He had to talk to me high new about the MURDI pla they knew it went out of that business, and I would talk to a New York company anyway. He has a New York Cops the others day the drugness in the streets. Okay, it's a strange world. You don't know who you're talking

about when you talk to the cop. This is a recurring character trait j D exhibits over the years of talking to him. He's passionately sure of himself and very suspicious of everyone else. He surmises that the NYPD wanted to talk to him about the murders because one of their own had been at the heist. Andrew West, remember, was one of only five people out of a hundred or more to file a report with the Atlanta Police after the robbery that night. West was a bodyguard for

one of the hustlers from New York. Many of these gangsters had bodyguards. J D filled me in on more details about how the robbers were killed and corrected some of the media's misinformation about this incredible story. It's like at times that journalists just didn't even care about the details. Here. I am in two thousand and two surprised at the facts j D is laid out for me. The research

my dad is done. According to him, these guys but Kenley, James Houston and maybe one of the person were incited on six accounts of whatever it is by the full County grand jury by this attorney Lewis Late. Never happened. These guys never invited there, so how did they? How did the much said so they wouldn't they were never brought, They couldn't be any would see them and maybe and

they okay. So those guys okay, and is that why you told me it was a beautiful four people of Warren and Roberts because I brought the bodies back down rights got four peven one of abjority. The newspaper said that Rogers and Hall were indicted along with Houston Hammond's in late November nineteen seventy. Rogerson Hall were killed along with Phillips on May ninety one, exactly seven months after the robbery. In that time, Hayman's was arrested, charged and

convicted on possession of weapons. Rogers and Hall were running from this indictment without even knowing it. Here's J. D. Hudson as we quickly recap, we're the last linings took place the robbery. The head down to Brunswick, they head up seven. We would sit activity, engaged and when they were killed. Okay, So they stopped in front of this only the name again of the liquor store. Gentleman's name

quick Quickie is what's his full name? Evan ma JD assumed that the last killings occurred in front of Evan Bynham's place in Brooklyn, which would add to the long list of dead robbers. Bookie Brown, Lillian Dabney, Baby Ray Humphrey, Charles Lee, McKinley, Rogers and James Henry Hall. And since Emerson Dorsey and this down woman had been murdered in Atlanta, in his mind, the case was over. But what about

fast Eddie Parker, Richard Wheeler's enforcer. If gangsters like Evan Bynum and Frank Moten, we're really that ruthless and they were, there's no way they would ever stop searching. They would ever stop hunting until everyone that was involved or responsible for the robbery was dead. Fight Night is a joint production from My Heart Radio, Will Packer Media and Doghouse Pictures in association with Psychopia Pictures. Produced and hosted by

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