Execution
Cook was returned to Oklahoma City to answer for the Mosser killings, and sentenced to 300 years in prison. In 1951 a California jury sentenced him to death for killing the salesman from Seattle, Robert Dewey. On December 12, 1952, Cook was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison. "I hate everybody's guts," he said at the time of his arrest, "and everybody hates mine."
Cook's body was returned to Joplin, Missouri, to be buried in Peace Church Cemetery.
Cook was known for the words "H-A-R-D L-U-C-K" tattooed on the fingers of his left hand and for a deformed right eyelid that never closed completely.
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