LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- One of the two men convicted of the "Onion Field" kidnap-murder of a police officer in 1963 has violated parole and is being sought by authorities.
Jimmy Lee Smith, 76, has been at large since December 22, said California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Jonathan Parsley.
Parsley could not specify what parole condition was violated. Smith previously went back to prison in June 2005 after admitting that he had violated parole by possessing heroin.
Smith and Gregory Powell were convicted of abducting two Los Angeles policemen from a Hollywood street on March 6, 1963. The officers were driven 75 miles to an onion field south of Bakersfield where Powell shot Officer Ian Campbell to death and fired at Officer Karl Hettinger as he fled.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/19/onion.field.killer.ap/index.htmlHow odd is this, I just picked up the book on Friday. Scary criminals. I saw the movie year ago and just finshed "Hollywood Station", and thought I ought to read his best book. It was in the closed stacks (basement)of the library. A classic book and it's in the library...(?).