The onion field

Joseph Wambaugh First published 1973

About this book

Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath.

Subjects

  • agriculture
  • campbell, ian james, 1931-1963
  • case studies
  • gregory ulas powell
  • hettinger, karl
  • jimmy lee smith
  • karl hettinger
  • murder
  • nonfiction
  • powell, gregory ulas
  • smith, jimmy lee
  • true crime