Gregory Ulas Powell

Gregory Ulas Powell

Birth : 1933-08-02, Michigan, USA

Death : 2012-08-12

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Gregory Ulas Powell was an American criminal who kidnapped Los Angeles Police Department Officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger on the night of March 9, 1963. Assisted by accomplice Jimmy Lee "Youngblood" Smith, Powell took the officers to an onion field near Bakersfield, California, where Officer Campbell was fatally shot. Powell was infamously known as the "Onion Field" Killer, when the story was depicted in Joseph Wambaugh's 1973 non-fiction book, "The Onion Field".

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Gregory Ulas Powell

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Inside San Quentin
Inside San Quentin
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San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Quentin in Marin County. San Quentin opened in July 1852, it is the oldest prison in California. The state's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, is located at the prison. It has a gas chamber, but since 1996, executions at the prison have been carried out by lethal injection, though the prison has not performed an execution since 2006.