1980 Guest House Murders

[Urbanized]

Am I right that this hotel was just NE of the Classen Traffic Circle, behind the complex that is now home to Hi-Lo, Drunken Fry, Classen Grill, etc.? There is a newer hotel on-site now, built in the past 6 or 7 years.

[trousers]

I would definitely watch this movie.

[kevinpate]

There is no shortage of homicides in this state that would make for interesting adaptations to a screen ,big or small.

[kd5kzy]

Interesting blog regarding the Dixie Mafia.

Dixie Mafia, Part 1 | The State Crime Bureau Journal

[Dubya61]

Interesting blog regarding the Dixie Mafia.

Dixie Mafia, Part 1 | The State Crime Bureau Journal

The complete blog is very interesting!

[rezman]

Am I right that this hotel was just NE of the Classen Traffic Circle, behind the complex that is now home to Hi-Lo, Drunken Fry, Classen Grill, etc.? There is a newer hotel on-site now, built in the past 6 or 7 years.

Correct. If you go to the Map Index on this site, and go to "50th & Western, you can plainly see it in the areal shot. Even the swimming pool where the murders occurred is visible.

[Jim Kyle]

The complete blog is very interesting!

Definitely! I didn't find anything past Part 2 though. Wasn't an Edmondson girl also involved with the younger Nix?

[OKCRT]

Definitely! I didn't find anything past Part 2 though. Wasn't an Edmondson girl also involved with the younger Nix?

I was looking for part 3 but couldn't find it. Part 2 left some things up in the air. Interesting read for sure.

[rezman]

Pody was an alumnus of Classen high school, and contributed a copy of his autobiography to our alumni association's museum. Unfortunately the museum has been closed for several years due to the MAPS renovation of the Classen building; we hope to have it open to the public again sometime this summer, though, and everything in our "Authors Alley" collection (including works by Bill Gulick and Louis L'Amour) can be read by any visitor.

Many of his games were held at his home in Nichols Hills...

I talked to my friend this evening and asked him about this. He didn't say a whole lot other than Poe and his dad were good friends and that he used to visit Poe's casino in Nichols Hills himself when he was younger. He said Pody Poe was really a pretty good guy.

[Kimmie]

WOW! Great question. Yes. I knew Ray was killed about a year after it happened. I was in Ft Lauderdale by then, we split in 72/73. saw him once more in 75 ( he called me in Houston and I flew to Dallas to see him) he'd been shot, and NOT by who he said did it) I didn't catch it at the time, but court records have cleared that up. Now recent re-connections with old (emphasis on 'old', I'm 66 now) friends have given me an entire new take. I never knew any of the particulars and the more I began to dig the weirder it got. Ray was a semi pimp, not in the old movie sense of standing outside the building and psst psst-ing in the tricks but the kind of guy that took care of me. Hot bath when I got home, a good joint, or glass of wine, whatever and then we drove to some all night joint, the Canadian Club out by Tuttle (if memory serves) and danced and socialized all night with our own kind. Hot pony cars, sleeping all day, working half the night and playing the rest. We didn't work the streets. Back in the day it was all call service, more Klute than Taxi Driver. there was no need for an actual pimp. They called it 'joining each other out.' As in out into 'the life'.
It was hedonistic and self-indulgent but we were kids and it was never going to end, right?

Ray was good to me, if you can get your head around that. Lots of girls didn't have it half as good as me and my friends did. No beatings, no terrorizing unless I was in a bad mood.In our own way we lived a very normal life.

so to answer your question, do I want to re-live that and make it more beautiful than it was? Maybe. But sometimes it just comes down to your own 'life more examined' and plus there is some real Quinton Tarrantino stuff that went on. it's a great story, with or without me being included in any of it.
You pick.

Thanks for you insightful question. I think this is where a lot of the ideas come from.

HI, I am the daughter of Fred Weed. Being as you have done a lot of research on this matter I know you are aware of the connection. I am just curious if you ever met my dad? I know this is an old thread and you may never get this but thought I would ask.