The Farmer Boy's Tale

One humid evening in 1964, Walt Heaps the farm boy not only witnessed a murder, but held the dying man's hand, reciting a prayer, until help arrived. Unfortunately, it all fell to the coroner, who pronounced Harold Dinsmore dead at the scene-a field across from Jady's Twin Springs Drive-In where he had been stabbed during an argument.

After the funeral and trial, at which Walter appeared as a witness, life went on, but it wouldn't be the last time death visited his doorstep.

Walt met and mar...