Tullahoma, Tennessee, marks one stop in the expanding route of George Ronald York and James Douglas Latham. During a ten-day sequence of killings, they acquired a Red Dodge Convertible there by shooting its owner, a traveling salesman; the car became part of their continuing flight and attacks.

Place in the Route

After the pair left Jacksonville and bought a pistol in New Orleans, Tullahoma appears among the next places where their tally of killings grew. The account gives no exact date for the Tullahoma incident, placing it within the following ten days. From there, the sequence continued to an Illinois suburb of St. Louis and then to Kansas.

The Stolen Convertible

The traveling salesman’s car was not simply transport: the pair took it by killing its owner. The Red Dodge Convertible thus links Tullahoma to the subsequent stages of the spree, as the narrative tracks the men’s movement through successive victims and stolen vehicles.