Gangs; Motorcycle; Vagos; Murder Charge; Albuquerque, New Mexico.--Richard W. Greer; Clarence Smith Jr. ; Thomas V. Gladish & Ronald B. Kleine.--See: Names of each - Color file as above.--Also enc: Detroit News investigative team: Boyd Simmons; Douglas Glazier & Stephen Cain.--Also Enc. : Map of murder scene drawn by Kerry R. Lee, confessed murderer. .

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Four members of the Vagos motorcycle club: Richard "Doc" Greer, Clarence "Sandman" Smith, Thomas Gladish and Ron Keine pose together after they are granted a new trial in the murder of William Velten. All four men were convicted and sentenced to death, later when another man, Kerry Rodney Lee confessed to the crime, the men were released from prison and granted a new trial, Lee was convicted in 1978 and the original four were never retried.

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Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library

Collection:

Virtual Motor City

Place:

New Mexico

Subject Topic:

Death row inmates and Judicial error

Format:

photographs

Rights:

Copyright Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

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