The story of the American mass murderer Billy “Cockeyed” Cook — who killed six people, including an entire family of five, during a terrifying three-week spree across several American states in early January 1951 — is barely remembered today. But in the shadow of the December 2012 slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and as the issues of gun violence and mental health again (for the time being, at least) dominate the national dialog, LIFE.com recalls William Cook’s killing spree of more than a half-century ago — if only as a reminder that the unspeakable and the sensational frequently go hand in hand, and that any lessons that might be gleaned from such savagery are, all too often, quickly forgotten.
http://life.time.com/history/im-gonna-live-by-the-gun-and-roam-portrait-of-a-spree-killer-1951/?iid=lf%7Clatest#1
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