Murder Row

 

 

     Chester Campbell Wheeler: 

 

 

• 12/26/83 Threats to Witnesses Put Justice in Danger

 

• 05/04/85 Reputed Hitman is Hit by Shots

 

• 07/23/87 Killer's Arrest Recalls '75 

 

• 07/24/87 Confiscated Narcotics Turn out to be Explosive

 

• 08/02/87 Ex-Con Carried Tools of a Lethal Trade

 

• 06/27/89 Crack Team Gunman 

 

 

     Frank Lee (Nitti) Usher: 

 

 

"Hitman, Drug Kingpin"

 

 

• 09/20/85 New Trial is Ordered in 1979 Triple Murder

 

 

Michigan Federated Democratic Club at 43 E. Garfield near Woodward Avenue

 

 

• 12/02/86 Slain Woman Had Been Murder Trial Witness

 

 

Victim:

 

"Afraid for her life"

 

Denise McGilmer found in Rouge Park woods near Outer Drive south of Plymouth Road was identified as a witness who refused to testify in a triple beheading trial in 1980

 

 

• 03/21/89 Nickname Tossed out in Retrial of Man called Nitti

 

• 03/25/89 Murder Probe Scrutinizes Man Acquitted in ‘79 Case

 

• 03/31/89 Retrial Clears Man of Murders 1979 Triple Slaying Suspect Now Faces Lesser Charges

 

 

The victims were forced to lie on the floor; shot to death with their heads and hands cut off:

 

William (Dirty Dirt) McJoy

Perry (Straw Hat) Jackson

Joanne Clark

 

Alleged mastermind behind the triple beheading - Adolph (Doc Holiday) Powell

 

 

 

 

• 04/01/89 Man Cleared in 3 Slayings Pleads Guilty to Lesser Charge

 

Murder Row Frank Lee Usher - Frank "Nitti"

 

                                                                     

     Harold Morton: 

 

• Harold Morton

 

• Statement of Facts 

 

 

     Robert Ernest Partee: 

 

• a.k.a. Baby T

 

"Frank Lee Usher's Co-Defendant"

 

 

Robert Ernest Partee