Personal Life
Hutchins was born March 26, 1929 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. At the time of his publicized arrest in 1979, Hutchins was married to Geneva Hutchins and had three children, daughters Charlotte and Lisa and son James Jr. While living in North Carolina, he worked at various occupations, including as a textile machinist and a woodcutter. He was unemployed at the time of the 1979 murder of the three lawmen.
Hutchins had a reputation as a violent and dangerous man with a "short fuse" temper. He was reputed to assault others for little or no provocation and to routinely assault his wife and children. He had once served in the US Air Force during the Korean War era and was trained as a rifleman; a skill which he used in the 1979 incident. He was ultimately discharged for inappropriate conduct by the Air Force for AWOL and other violations.
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