Hilton Crawford

Hilton Crawford was sentenced to death on July 24, 1995 due to the crime of capital murder. He had committed the kidnapping and killing of a 12 year-old boy, one year earlier. The young boy's name was Samuel McKay Everett. Crawford was not just a random person, but happened to be a family friend of the Everett's.
One evening in 1995, Sam's parents had been out for a meeting and left Sam home alone. Crawford was also supposed to attend the same meeting, but never showed. After a little while, Crawford made an appearance at the Everett's home. Sam suspected nothing, so he opened up the door. He had considered to Hilton as Uncle Hilty.

During the night, Sam's parents tried to call, but there was no answer. Due to this, his father, Carl, drove home to see if everything was fine. It was then, he found no sign of Sam and the door to their home cracked open. While Carl was home, a women called the house and demanded $500,000 in exchange for the safe return of their son. The only lead the police had on this case was a neighbor of the Everett's saw a car quickly pull in the drive way and leave that night. The car was described similar to Crawford's, and when searched, found a small portion of blood in the trunk. This blood did not prevail that Sam was murdered but, the police had their suspect. Soon after, Crawford drew a map to the location of Sam in Whiskey Bay, Louisiana. There they had found Sam's body, which had shown he had been shot twice in the head.

Police were able to see what Crawford was up too that night because of his credit card transactions. This case was solved rarely quick. Crawford had tried to accuse another person for the actual murder, R.L. Remmington. Police investigated, but could not find this man nor find anything about him. So they concluded that Remmington was not real. Finally, in the year of 2003, Crawford had been executed by lethal injection for this tragic murder of a young boy. Also, Irene Flores, who was the voice on the phone, received 25 years in jail. Crawford was one of the older people in Texas, age 64, to be executed by the death penalty.


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