Bobby Wilcoxson - Bobby Randell Wilcoxson was born July 10, 1929, in East Duke, Oklahoma. He worked as a crew foreman in the lettuce fields of the Salinas Valley in California. Wilcoxson was well respected as a crew boss because spoke Spanish and physically intimidated migrant workers who wouldn’t produce enough. He worked in the produce business in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Wilcoxson also worked as a house painter, service station attendant and a used-car salesman before turning into a professional criminal.

When Wilcoxson was a youngster, his stepfather hammered a piece of metal, sending a splinter into the boy’s right eye. The FBI publicity machine would eventually brand the bandit  "One Eye" Bobby Wilcoxson in 1962.

"One Eye" Bobby Wilcoxson and his crime partner Albert Nussbaum of Buffalo, New York, were prolific bank robbers between 1960 and 1962, knocking over seven banks during an eighteen month run. Wilcoxson robbed one bank twice! They stole at least $248,000 which by some estimates is roughly the equivalent of $2 million in 2008.

Peter Columbus Curry, Jr., of Quitman, Georgia, joined Wilcoxson and Nussbaum on December 15, 1961 - the trio holding up a branch of the Lafayette National Bank in Brooklyn, New York. Wilcoxson entered the bank and pumped four rounds from a Thompson Submachine gun into the chest of bank guard Henry Kraus, mortally wounding him.

In February, 1962, Curry was the first of the three arrested by the FBI.

It is reported J. Edger Hoover dubbed Wilcoxson "the most wanted man since Dillinger." On February 23, 1962, the FBI named Wilcoxson to the famous "Most Wanted List" and circulated over 1 million "wanted" posters. Nussbaum was added to the list on April 3, 1962.

The G-Men declared the robbers dangerous, warning the pair were armed with hand-grenades and 25 submachine guns.

 "They will not hesitate to open fire," the wanted posters declared.

 When rumors placed the robbers in Canada and The United Kingdom, the Canadian Royal Mounted Police and the Bobbies of Scotland Yard joined the manhunt. Over 600 FBI agents searched worldwide for Nussbaum, Wilcoxson and Wilcoxson’s 19 year old "paramour," Jacqueline Ruth Rose, a former waitress of Paoli, Indiana and Delray Beach, Florida.

Nussbaum was captured by the FBI after a high speed car chase through Buffalo in the predawn hours of November 4, 1962.

Midmorning on Saturday, November 10, 1962, Wilcoxson and Rose came out of their rented home in Baltimore, Maryland, triggering a swarm of 30 FBI agents.

To avoid a death sentence, Wilcoxson pled guilty to eight bank robberies and the murder of the guard Kraus. He was sentenced to life in prison in April, 1964, with eligibility for parole in 1979. Wilcoxson went to the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia on March 3, 1964. On July 11, 1980, he was transferred to the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Wilcoxson was paroled to Chattanooga, Tennessee in early 1982. His freedom was short lived.

 On October 23, 1982, Robert Mosher, a chemical engineer of the Dupont Corporation was murdered. A piece of plastic tarp and 10 inches of a mop handle were shoved down his throat.

 Wilcoxson was indicted for the homicide on December 19, 1985. He was convicted by a jury of first degree murder on November 1, 1986 in the Hamilton County, Tennessee, Criminal Court.

 Mosher’s wife, Evelyn, allegedly hired Wilcoxson to murder her husband so she could collect life insurance benefits of $209,000. According to Wilcoxson, Evelyn Mosher never paid for the hit. She was convicted for contracting the murder of her husband and received a life sentence.

On February 13, 1987, Wilcoxson was sentenced to death by electrocution. In 1999, his death sentence was reversed on appeal for defective legal representation.

While awaiting an appeal of his conviction, Bobby Randell Wilcoxson died of natural causes on December 9, 2006, at the age of 77 while in the custody of the Tennessee State Prison.

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