Richard Wade Cooey II and Clinton Dickens
If red is not your color, Richard Wade Cooey is not for you. If you do not enjoy sitting across the table with a super-morbidly obese man that sweats when he eats, you may want to avoid a Dick Cooey. You may also want to stray away from him if you enjoy living.
But we shouldn’t make fun of poor Cooey here for his weight or his fire-crotch, because he does, after all, have other notable traits. You see, he, Clinton Dickens and another friend were tossing concrete blocks from an overpass striking the vehicle Wendy Offredo (below left) and Dawn McCreery (below right) were riding in. It totaled their car leaving the two women stranded and vulnerable in a time of few cell phones (they came out two years earlier, this is 1986 we’re talking about)!
Instead of running and hiding, the boys did the right thing. They hopped in their car, picked the ladies up from the side of the road, and drove them to a nearby pay phone. How valiant!
After the phone call Dickens and Cooey had a great idea- let’s kidnap and rob these girls! At this point, their mutual friend-disgusted at their plan, bailed leaving the vermin to their own devices.
Dick and Dickens lured the girls back into their car and drove them to some nearby woods where they were tied up and beat and raped over and over again for three and a half hours! Then, to conceal their super happy fun time from the police, they choked the girls to death with a shoe lace! Dead people can’t report you to the cops, you know. They then carved an “X” in each one of their torsos and drove off.
The next day the two Dicks bragged about their conquest to their friends. Thankfully, someone reported them to the officials and the bodies of the two girls were found by noon that same day.
“This crime is one of the most brutal we’ve ever seen in Summit County,” said the county prosecutor, Sherri Bevan Walsh. “These were really fabulous girls whose lives were cut way too short.” The girls were sorority sisters from the University of Akron. They had just gotten off work and were looking to meet up with some friends in Portage Lakes.
Cooey was soon sentenced to death by the electric chair. “Your actions were brutal, savage and senseless,” Summit County Common Pleas Judge James Winter told Richard Cooey II.
Dickens on the other hand was a minor at the time so was not eligible for the death penalty. Instead he received a sentence of life in prison.
Unfortunately, this is not the end of the story. While Dickens is still rotting away in prison, Cooey has had a very active 22 years in jail. Once the state of Ohio began performing lethal injections rather than the electric chair, a group of really fat guys sentenced to die have been putting in appeal after appeal claiming that the lethal injection is cruel and unusual.
How could it be cruel and unusual? Well, when you’re 5′7″ and 267 pounds, it could be hard for the executioner to find a vein swimming in all that fat! That being said of course, Cooey didn’t mind a cruel and unusual death the morning of September 1st 1986.
Cooey spent 22 years on appeals- more time than those girls had to live (Dawn was 20, Wendy-21). But there is a happy ending after all! On October 14th 2008 at 10:28 AM Cooey met the needle, and after a twitch in his left hand, he was pronounced dead.
For his last meal Cooey had a T-bone steak with A-1 sauce, french fries, onion rings, hash browns, four eggs over easy, toast with butter, a pint of Rocky Road ice cream, and “real” bear claws from the bakery. Even with all that food in his system he was not happy- his final words were: “You fuckers haven’t paid any attention to anything I’ve said in the last 22 1/2 years, why would anyone pay any attention to anything I’ve had to say now?”
Poetic.
Do you think Richard Wade Cooey II and Clinton Dickens deserve Hell
- No, niether of them (2%, 9 Votes)
- Yes but only Clinton Daniels (0%, 1 Votes)
- Yes but only that fat bastard Cooey (4%, 13 Votes)
- Yes, both of them (94%, 339 Votes)
Total Voters: 362
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But we did pay attention to the last sound to come from his body… His last breath has been fittingly taken, to bad we can’t cook him up and use all that flesh to feed some prisoners in Germany…
He’d be a delicacy….
One down one to go
Great Article YoMomma… Awesome job! Since you like the older stories too, toss me a note, I have another one for you that deals with a 12 year old who was burned alive after being raped & stabbed and other things repeatedly….
Thank-you!
It isn’t the Japanese concrete one is it? That description made me think of it- I should probably write one up about that too, if not.
You can hit me up on my myspace (myspace.com/lawnfairy) or my incognito e-mail Kaylabambam@yahoo.com
I like older stories as well..from time to time of course..Plus it gives a person more to work with enabling a more interesting read…In this case you hear the end of the story. That’s always nice. I like simple details as well. A simple detail in this one for me was the last meal, or the last words better yet. Simple meaning they are almost tradition to share in a death sentence story however still hold their appeal… I’ll have to read your others.
BTW, can’t help but point out that there is nothing incognito about the http://www., hope you enjoy emails from Cooey fans. Nah, really I would never hope that for anyone..:o)
makes me mad that they serve better food than a lot of decent human beings around the world ever get to a man whose biggest accomplishment in life was forestalling his sentence with idiotic appeals.
grrrr. tax dollars at work again.
Hey Danger, are you talking about the Shanda Sharer case? Sounds just like it… Anyhoo great story Yo-Momma, I like your style!
Specifically Shanda Sharer’s case…
Basically the case of a little girl who never really got a chance to discover herself… And now, some of her rapist killers are free, the others not far away if I recall correctly….
I always love how sadistic killers sentenced to death tout how ‘cruel and unusual’ their imminent deaths will be no matter what kind of death they inflicted on their victims.
How can they be so hypocritical? Idiots
It’s part of the “Denial First Sign of Guilt” rule… After all, they are innocent and it’s wrong to kill innocent people…
Besides, if they did do it then they think the person deserved it… After all, according to their family they’d never hurt a fly… Remember when Jeffrey Dahmer nursed that fly with a broken leg back to health?
Yeah… Right.
Maybe we should start using a turkey baster to inject these big guys… Just sharpen it right up and run it into the Aorta….
Why the hell would you ‘brag’ about raping and murdering someone?
Im glad the scumbags got what they deserve, although somehow a quiet, peaceful death after verbally slapping the loved ones of the two murdered ladies, does not seem just. They should have been made to suffer. The pipe and barbed wire up the ass trick would have been perfect.
His fat ass must of got sick of jerking it. It’s really a shame that people have to suffer to the hands of losers who can’t get a piece. Simple solution to a simple problem. DIET!
Sob, sniff, sniffle,
This story was a real tear jerker…
I guess I just love happy endings…..
Even if the drama lasted way too long.
Maybe Broderick Lloyd Laswell (the tub of lard who complained of being starved by the prison system) should take some tips from this guy! 22 years in prison and still able to keep his figure :) I know I’m impressed.
Ha Ha :-)
Wow, these guys are some real winners. I think they kinda look like the type that were banging each other when no one was looking. That’s probably why they were so excited to brag after being with a woman. ” See, we’re NOT gay.”
How sad that these things happen.
I cant belive he ate so much for his last meal!!! What a pig!!! I wouldnt/couldnt eat that much for brekkie, lunch and dinner combined.
I hope he didnt shit himself in his last moments. Pity the man who would have had to clean up that mess before burial.
The way our laws are getting so limp wristed, the only way to execute criminals now in many states is to feed them Big Macs and hope they die of clogged arteries!
i wasn’t going to go there, amy… but i was thinking it. lol
New Fox Reality Show: Worlds Biggest Loser for convicts. Loose the wieght and we fry you faster…
Lose the Weight- Get a Needle!
at least he knew we wouldn’t give a shit about his last words.
What a sick, sick man. French fries AND onion rings as part of his last meal. All the grease and calories!