THE MURDER OF HOYT SPURLOCK
Hoyt Sprulock was in his mid-20s when he wrote an article for the Aug. 14, 1969 issue of the Good Times. Hoyt was from Texas but was in the Bay Area working for a newspaper in nearby Pacifica -- see...
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THANKS TO JUDITHGyke and Spurlock on the same page (right half -- Spurlock upper-right/Gyke lower-left as "d gaik"), August 1969 issue of the Good Times:
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I wonder about that article on drug addicts. Was Hoyt talking bad about drug addicts? Gyke just had battled drug addiction (was he clean at this point?) and such an article might have angred him.
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The story appears to be sympathetic to the struggles of heroin addicts. Granted, I have not read the story, but that is what is sounds like in the brief description in the article.
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Investigators found no evidence to support anything but a personal vendetta.
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From the August 7, 1969 edition of The Good Times, page 7:"GLASS BUST ~ hoyt spurlock Window-smashing drunks are always a pain in the ass. Just ask Bob Gomez or Pilar Sanchez, two head shop owners at...
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Also from page 7 of the August 7, 1969 edition of The Good Times:"d gaik's short bits ..... Conscientious objectors who refuse alternate service are receiving longer prison sentences according to the...
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Off topic, but "... a philosopher who knows computers.." ???? In 1969?
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Looks like we don't yet have any Good Times issues that would give us Gyke's whereabouts for early January 1972.
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As an aside, if you were a criminal and lived in Corsicana, TX in the late '60's, be sure to rob the Spurlock's of 319 Marnie after August 18th. They will be in Hawaii.
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From the article it sounds like he was killed very early Sunday. "before dawn." Perhaps while arriving home from a night out. Also the obvious... Killed on a weekend.In addition to being shot in the...
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Not a huge find here; however, I noticed that we have many Good Times articles from Gaik in late 1971. One in particular caught my eye... it was written only two months prior to this murder.10/15/71-...
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Looks like we don't yet have any Good Times issues that would give us Gyke's whereabouts for early January 1972.The issue would be the v.5 no.1 January 1 - 13, 1972 incase anyone should run across it....
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Jack Ruby died on January 3. If there was indeed a connection to Jack Ruby, maybe the killer wanted to murder on monday January 3, but couldn't because of circumstances, so chose the next best thing:...
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