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Charles Ray Hatcher was born on 16 July, 1929 in Mound City, Missouri, U.S., is an American serial killer. Discover Charles Ray Hatcher's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

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Age 55 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 16 July, 1929
Birthday 16 July
Birthplace Mound City, Missouri, U.S.
Date of death 1984
Died Place Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1929

Charles Ray Hatcher (July 16, 1929December 7, 1984) was an American serial killer.

1936

In the spring of 1936, he and his older brothers were flying a kite with copper wire they had found in an old ModelT Ford.

His oldest brother, Arthur Allen, was about to hand the kite to him when it hit a high‑voltage power line and electrocuted him.

Arthur was pronounced dead at the scene.

Soon afterward, his father left home and divorced his mother.

1945

His mother remarried several times, and in 1945, Hatcher moved with his mother and her third husband to St.Joseph.

1947

In 1947, Hatcher was convicted of auto theft in St.Joseph after stealing a logging truck from Iowa–Missouri Walnut Company, his employer of two weeks.

He received a two‑year suspended sentence.

1948

In 1948, he was convicted of auto theft a second time for stealing a 1937 Buick in St.Joseph.

Hatcher was sentenced to two years in the Missouri State Penitentiary.

1949

On June 8, 1949, Hatcher was released from prison after serving a little more than half of his time.

He was back in prison in just a few months, after being convicted of forging a $10 check at a gas station in Maryville, Missouri.

1951

On March 18, 1951, Hatcher escaped from prison and attempted a burglary.

He was caught and received an extra two years in prison.

He stole a 1951 Ford in Orrick and was subsequently sentenced to four years in prison.

Before he was sentenced, Hatcher attempted to escape from the Ray County Jail in Richmond and received an additional two years.

1954

After serving his additional time, Hatcher was released from prison on July 14, 1954.

1959

On March 18, 1959, Hatcher was released from prison after the sixth prison sentence of his life.

On June 26, 1959, Hatcher attempted to abduct Steven Pellham, a 16‑year‑old in St.Joseph who delivered newspapers, threatening him with a butcher knife.

Pellham reported the crime, and Hatcher was arrested when the police stopped him in a stolen vehicle.

Hatcher was sentenced to five years in the Missouri State Penitentiary for the attempted abduction and auto theft under the Habitual Criminal Act.

While Hatcher was waiting to be transported to prison, he unsuccessfully attempted to break out of the Buchanan County Jail.

When Hatcher arrived at the Missouri State Penitentiary, he claimed to be the most notorious criminal in northwest Missouri since Jesse James.

1961

On July 2, 1961, a 26-year-old inmate named Jerry Tharrington was found raped and stabbed to death on the floor of the prison kitchen loading dock.

He had been repeatedly stabbed in the back.

Hatcher was the only individual missing from the kitchen crew at the time of the murder.

He was sent to solitary confinement for Tharrington's murder, but there was not enough evidence to convict him in court.

While in solitary confinement for the murder, Hatcher wrote a note claiming that he needed psychiatric treatment; however, the prison psychologist felt that it was simply a scheme to get out of solitary and possibly out of prison early.

Treatment was refused, and Hatcher was returned to the general population.

1963

His sentence was reduced to three‑quarters the original time, and he was released on August 24, 1963.

1969

He was convicted in Missouri of one murder, has been linked to four others in Illinois and California, and confessed to having murdered a total of 16 people between 1969 and 1982.

Charles Ray Hatcher was born in Mound City, Missouri, a small town 34 mi north of St.Joseph.

He was the youngest of Jesse James and Lula Novada (Bomar) Hatcher's four children.

His father was a bootlegger, an ex‑convict, and an abusive alcoholic.

Hatcher was bullied in school, and in turn bullied his classmates and would carry this practice into adulthood.

Hatcher confessed to abducting a 12‑year‑old named William Freeman in Antioch, California on August 27, 1969.

He claimed he had told the boy to come with him, took him to a creek, and strangled him.

On August 29, 1969, six‑year‑old Gilbert Martinez was reported missing in San Francisco.

According to the six‑year‑old girl with whom he was playing, Martinez walked away with a man who offered him ice cream.

He was found by a man walking his dog as the boy was being beaten and sexually assaulted.