In search of money, drugs, and kicks, Brooks hooked up with Martinez, ideally cast as his shapely-ankled and homicidal confederate?
?That?s the kind of yellow son of a bitch he is.??Sheriff Earl Heflin on Charles Starkweather
Boxers tend to be gentlemen, not known for wrapping electrical cord around the necks of elderly ladies.
Following in the blood-drenched footsteps of spree killers bandy-legged Charles Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate?killers of 11 people, including Caril Ann?s two-year-old half-sister, in late 1950s Nebraska and Wyoming? Jeremy Brooks and girl toy Coty Martinez murdered three people in 2007.
No shortage of these killer couples, but Brooks is the only one I know of who was a professional boxer.
?Superstar? fought from 2003 to 2005 (4-2, 2 KOs). A thug whose idea of boxing was hurting people for money, Brooks quit the ring after losing his last two bouts, stopped by Mika Gergen via second-round TKO in October 2004, and beaten by Al Green via unanimous decision in October 2005.
In search of money, drugs, and kicks, Brooks hooked up with Martinez, ideally cast as his shapely-ankled and homicidal confederate. After failing in their first murder, but not for want of trying, they left Louisiana for Kentucky, where they robbed and murdered two men. In Minnesota, Brooks beat an old woman with his fists before strangling her to death with an electrical cord.
Brooks?who, according to Martinez, liked ?to see the scared looks on people?s faces??was sentenced to life in prison. The girlfriend, who admitted doing ?some bad things,? is serving 30 years. If it had been up to me, Brooks would have gotten the needle. Naw, I?m a traditionalist?crank up Old Sparky. I mean, isn?t that what you do with trash?burn it?
When I think of heavyweights, Jack Dempsey comes to mind. So do Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson, Ingemar Johansson, Joe Frazier?gentlemen, all. And that includes the grossly maligned Sonny Liston. Jeremy Brooks? A lousy boxer, an even worse human being?
And no kind of gentleman.
