In-depth update on the Cook brothers,Toledo,OH Black serial killing brothers,who ONLY targeted Whites,& killed 10-11,in 1970's & early 80's,details of the BRUTAL nature of the rape/torture murders,+ URL's for photos of killer bro's & 9 victims
Joe1orbit
Yesterday I posted the BREAKING news, and it is MAJOR, serial killing news,
that two Black BROTHERS in Ohio, Anthony and Nathaniel Cook, aged 51 and 42
respectively, were ADMITTING that they were involved in a TOTAL of 10-11 serial
killings, all victims harvested in and around the city of Toledo, Ohio, in the
1970's and early 1980's. Older brother Anthony was the PRIMARY killer, and
committed MANY of these murders on his own. Nathaniel did help out, on three or
four of the harvestings. Anthony was ALREADY serving a Life prison sentence,
well before yesterday's plea bargained confessions. Nathaniel DOES retain
parole ELIGIBILITY, as part of this plea deal, and COULD be freed in 18 years,
at age 60, that being the EARLIEST he can win parole.
This is an absolutely FASCINATING case, and I am glad the Toledo Blade online
newspaper is providing FAIRLY comprehensive coverage. First of all, you can
view LARGE facial photos of NINE of the victims, at this URL:
http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/0d07vict.htm
Some REALLY attractive, young, long-haired gals got harvested. Some of the
victims were male, but ALL of the victims were WHITE. It seems UNDENIABLE that
Anthony and his brother, brutalized young amerikkkan Black victims,
SPECIFICALLY decided and chose to target ONLY Whites, in their serial killing
spree.
You can view a GREAT photo of our serial killing brothers, Anthony and
Nathanial, sitting TOGETHER in court YESTERDAY, and also photos of a surviving
victim who escaped their clutches, and a photo of the prosecutor as well, over
at:
http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/0d07cook.htm
As I've said, a MAJORITY of the victims were female, and most of the gals
were BRUTALLY raped, sexually assaulted before being harvested. Anthony appears
to be a "classically" enraged serial killer, who derived cathartic pleasure
from BRUTALIZING his victims in an intimate, hands-on way, despite the WRINKLES
of ONLY targeting Whites, and enlisting his brother's help on some of the jobs.
The FIRST harvesting occured about 26 YEARS ago, when Anthony, the OLDER
brother, was only about 25 years old. This plea bargain deal is not a TERRIBLE
one, given that Anthony was ALREADY serving a LWOP sentence. Getting 9 or so
MORE LWOP sentences stacked on top of the one, doesn't really have a major
impact on him. At least brother Nathaniel, now aged 42, retains the POSSIBILITY
of gaining parole at age 60. It sounds like the plea deal is structured so that
he WILL be FREED in the year 2018, as long as he behaves well while in prison.
There is also SOME type of confusion about 51 year old Anthony's LIFE sentence.
I KNOW that yesterday's wire article made it clear that he was in prison for
LIFE, no parole. But the below articles seem to imply that he MIGHT still have
some type of parole eligibility, although with these 8-9 MORE plea bargained
murder pleas, I can't see him ever coming up for a parole hearing.
We get FASCINATING details on how some of the killings were carried out, with
quite a bit of brutality. DNA evidence LINKING Anthony to some of the murders,
has been established. We get confirmation that DESPITE being an enraged serial
killer, Anthony is also a KIND and GENEROUS fellow, and the MAIN reason why he
agreed to this plea deal was to help out his younger brother, and make sure the
younger bro retained a GOOD chance of regaining his freedom at age 60, 18 years
from now.
The victims were raped, stabbed, shot. Anthony TESTIFIED yesterday,
describing the attacks. At one point he talked about ENCOURAGING his younger
brother to kill one of the male victims. Declaring: "I stated to Nathaniel, 'Go
get 'em,' I heard the gunshots and then Mr. Gordon was dead." Nothing beats a
bit of brotherly encouragement, I guess.
We get a profound sense of what a TREMENDOUS impact Anthony has had, upon so
many people in the Toledo area, relatives of victims, MOST of whom have had to
WONDER and GUESS, for the past 20 years, WHO harvested their loved ones, and in
a few cases of survivors, who attacked THEM. Nathaniel was NOT arrested until
1998, and even though Anthony has been in jail for MANY years on the ONE murder
conviction, police really did NOT link him to MOST of the other harvestings,
until recent years.
it's nice to see that NEITHER brother chose to prostitute themselves to their
EVIL society. NO clear signs of remorse, either verbalized or otherwise, were
shown. I bet that Anthony and nathanial, as Blacks in amerikkka, RECOGNIZED and
embraced the fact that their society had BRUTALLY tortured both them AND their
ancestors, bestowing upon them a virtually limitless right to seek and claim
vengeance. What a shame that so FEW Blacks in amerikkka seem emotionally
capable to TRULY embracing the REALITY of how INCREDIBLY victimized they HAVE
been in the past, and continue to be today, both on an INDIVIDUAL and on a
group RACIAL level.
I wish Anthony and Nathanial ALL the best. They seem to be VERY close to each
other. I wonder whether they ASKED to be housed in the SAME PRISON, or maybe
even in the SAME CELL, as part of this plea bargain deal?? That sounds like a
nice thought, and something they SHOULD have considered asking for. Why not??
DEMAND that you be allowed to stay together with your brother, a person that
you can TRUST, who has never betrayed you and remained a loyal friend for
DECADES.
I do wish that MORE infore on the CHILDHOODS of our Cook brothers serial
killing team was provided, but OBVIOUSLY they were BRUTALLY abused, as ALL
enraged serial killers were, as children. Hopefully an enterprising true crime
author will decide to WRITE a book about this case. It has so many UNIQUE
aspects, and given the DERANGED racial hypocrisy and obsessions of amerikkka,
any book written should prove VERY controversial, especially if the undeniable
racial rage component is stressed and elaborated upon,which usually translates
to a BIG seller.
Anybody else know of any BROTHER serial killing teams?? My mind is drawing a
BLANK, but I'm sure there have been a FEW.
Stay Strong, Anthony and Nathaniel!
Take care, JOE
The following three news articles all appear courtesy of the 4/7/00 online
edition of The Toledo Blade newspaper:
Cooks admit to eight slayings
April 7, 2000
BY DALE EMCH
BLADE STAFF WRITER
Eight grisly, sexually motivated killings — the first more than 25 years ago —
were cleared up yesterday when brothers Anthony and Nathaniel Cook pleaded
guilty in Lucas County Common Pleas Court as part of an agreement with
prosecutors.
The Cooks pleaded guilty to their respective roles in the 1980 kidnapping and
aggravated murder of a 24-year-old man and the kidnapping and attempted
aggravated murder of the man’s 18-year-old girlfriend.
As part of a plea agreement, the Cooks provided police with detailed
information about seven other murders that either one or both of them were
involved in, bringing long-sought resolution to cases that neither the victims’
families nor law enforcement officials ever expected to be solved.
The Cooks will not be charged for any crimes other than the 1980 case to which
they pleaded guilty.
Anthony Cook, 51, was sentenced by Judge Charles Wittenberg to 15 years to life
in prison for the aggravated murder of Tom Gordon. He already is serving a
sentence of 15 years to life for the 1981 murder of Ottawa Hills Realtor Peter
Sawicki.
Nathaniel Cook, 42, was sentenced to 21 to 75 years for the attempted murder of
Mr. Gordon’s girlfriend and two counts of kidnapping. His plea agreement calls
for him to be granted judicial release on Feb. 13, 2018. He’s been in jail
since his arrest in 1998.
Lucas County Prosecutor Julia Bates, whose idea it was about two years ago to
resurrect the Gordon case through DNA testing, said she cut the deal with the
brothers because there was no certainty of a conviction at trial and it allowed
some closure for so many families.
"We had to debate about whether that was something we should do," Mrs. Bates
said after yesterday's hearing. "The only way I can say it to you is that I
couldn't look myself in the [mirror], I couldn't sleep at night, and I couldn't
live with my own morality if I had the opportunity within my grasp to find the
answers for all of those long lost children who were killed.
"You'd never know why, you'd never know who, you'd never know if the person was
locked up or if he was next to you at the grocery store in the next line or at
the next counter."
Judge Wittenberg praised the plea agreement, saying that it allowed
convictions, long prison terms, and the avoidance of a drawn-out and uncertain
appeals process.
"Through the plea agreement, the state and the police have obtained information
to solve and conclude a series of horrifying murders which occurred two decades
ago and even one back in the 1970s," Judge Wittenberg said. "But now the
families of the victims know who was responsible and hopefully can achieve some
sense of closure after these many years."
The aggravated murder trial for the Cook brothers was supposed to have started
Monday, but it was delayed while prosecutors and defense attorneys negotiated
the details of the agreement.
Dean Mandross, chief of criminal division for the prosecutor's office, and Tim
Braun, an assistant prosecutor, said their case was strong, but it hinged on
DNA evidence that was 20 years old.
"On one level [the DNA evidence] was very persuasive because it was only
samples from [the Cooks and their rape victim], but there was degradation,"
said Mr. Braun, who was going to oversee the presentation of the DNA evidence
had the case gone to trial. "It wasn't perfect, but it was persuasive enough
for them to want to take a plea."
Anthony Cook could have received no harsher sentence had he lost at trial.
Anthony thought he could help his brother by entering the plea, said Peter
Rost, Nathaniel's attorney.
"I think it's accurate that because Anthony ended up pleading to the aggravated
murder that his motivation to enter into any kind of cooperating deal with the
state was to be of some assistance to Nathaniel," Mr. Rost said. "And I think
the authorities recognized that Nathaniel was not as involved as Anthony."
During yesterday's hearing, the Cooks gave short statements about their brutal
attack on Mr. Gordon and his girlfriend, who had just kissed goodnight in front
of her Utica Street home after returning from a date on May 14, 1980.
The passenger-side window of Mr. Gordon's 1973 Nova was shattered by one of the
brothers and the young couple was forced into the backseat at gunpoint. They
were driven to a field off Raab Road in western Lucas County, where the Cook
brothers shot Mr. Gordon and took turns raping his girlfriend.
Afterward, she was stabbed repeatedly with an ice-pick until she feigned death.
Mr. Gordon was placed in the trunk and his girlfriend was left in the backseat
of the car, which was abandoned off McLean Street in North Toledo. The girl was
able to make it to a nearby house for help and survived the ordeal.
Yesterday, Anthony Cook said he encouraged his brother to kill Mr. Gordon.
"I stated to Nathaniel, 'Go get 'em,' " Anthony Cook said in the quiet
courtroom, as people strained to hear the voice of the man who had caused so
much suffering. "I heard the gunshots and then Mr. Gordon was dead."
Nathaniel gave a short rendition of his involvement in the incident, saying he
kidnapped the couple and aided and abetted the stabbing of Mr. Gordon's
girlfriend.
Neither of the Cooks showed any remorse in the courtroom, and appeared to
ignore the impact statements given by the victims' family members.
Doreen Powers, Mr. Gordon's sister, told Judge Wittenberg that there wasn't a
day that went by that her mother didn't cry about her son's death.
"She would say when she shut her eyes she could hear her son after the first
shot, 'Oh, my heart' and then he screamed, 'Oh, God, no,' and hear another
shot. And she could see my brother drop to the ground," Ms. Powers said, trying
unsuccessfully to stifle her tears.
Mr. Gordon's girlfriend stood to speak, but was crying too hard make her
remarks.
Joan Coleman, director of the prosecutor's office's victim assistance program,
read her statement while Mrs. Bates put her arm around the shaking woman, one
of the few survivors of the Cook brothers' attacks.
"These violent acts of crime you have introduced into my life are burned into
my mind, heart, and soul," Mrs. Coleman read. "This is something you just don't
let go. You have burdened every single day of my life with guilt - the guilt of
a survivor."
It was Mr. Gordon's girlfriend's willingness to persevere at a potential trial
20 years after the attack that contributed to all of the other cases being
solved, Mrs. Bates said.
Mr. Gordon's girlfriend and Ms. Powers said they approved of the plea agreement
made by the prosecutor's office.
The Gordon murder was thought by police to be the first of the killings. But
this week, Anthony Cook told police about a young woman he killed in 1973,
which marks the oldest case the plea agreement was able to resolve.
On Dec. 20, 1973, Vicky Lynn Small, 22, and some friends had car trouble during
a bad snowstorm. Anthony Cook, then 24, stopped to help and ended up giving Ms.
Small a ride. Police said she was sexually assaulted and fatally shot. Her body
was found the same day in Ottawa Park.
It appears there was a lull in the homicides committed by one or both of the
Cook brothers from 1973 until Mr. Gordon's death in 1980. Police said that's
likely because Anthony Cook was in prison on an armed robbery conviction from
1974 to 1979. When he got out, his brother, Nathaniel, joined him in three of
the killings.
The serial killings stopped in 1981 with the murder of Peter Sawicki.
In between, the brothers' violent attacks produced fear throughout Toledo, and
police scrambled to find whoever was responsible for the killings, which they
eventually became convinced were related.
The Cooks' next victim after Mr. Gordon and his girlfriend was Connie Sue
Thompson, 19, who was hitchhiking on Cherry Street near St. Vincent Medical
Center on Jan. 17, 1981, when she was picked up by the brothers. They drove her
to western Lucas County, where she was sexually assaulted and murdered. Her
body was discovered in a culvert under a road, police said.
A young couple was targeted by the brothers just 10 days later. They have the
distinction of surviving their attack. Arnold Coates, then 21, and Cheryl
Bartlett, then 18, were walking in an alley behind Segur Avenue when the Cooks
forced them into a vacant garage at gunpoint. Because they had just one bullet,
they made the couple embrace and shot them, but not fatally.
Dawn Rene Backes wouldn't be so lucky. On Feb. 21, 1981, Anthony Cook was
driving home from work when he saw the 12-year-old Gesu School pupil walking
near the University of Toledo.
He grabbed her by the neck and forced her into his truck. He stopped at an
apartment to pick up Nathaniel, and the two took Dawn to the former State
Theater, 2460 Collingwood Blvd., and tortured and raped her in the abandoned
building. Afterward, they smashed her skull with a concrete block.
Hardened detectives were as horrified as the citizenry by the girl's brutal
killing.
A little over a month later, on March 27, 1981, Anthony Cook noticed a couple
in a car in the parking lot of the Fountain Circle Apartments in Oregon. Scott
Moulton, 21, and Denise Siotkowski, 22, were friends who worked together at the
Centre Supermarket on Navarre Avenue.
They planned to meet co-workers for drinks that night but never showed up. They
were found in the car's trunk at the apartment complex in Oregon. Mr. Moulton
had been shot four times and Ms. Siotkowski five. Police said Ms. Siotkowski
had been sexually assaulted.
Stacey Balonek, 21, and Daryle Cole, 21, had dated for about a year when
Anthony Cook murdered them on Aug. 2, 1981, shortly after they had returned
from a trip to Daytona Beach, Fla.
Anthony Cook told police he saw them parked near Ms. Balonek's home on Doyle
Street when he forced them at gunpoint into the trunk of Mr. Cole's 1979
Pontiac Grand Prix and drove to the railroad tracks beneath the Central Avenue
overpass. Ms. Balonek was sexually assaulted and both were beaten to death with
Mr. Cole's aluminum baseball bat.
The next murder is the one that put Anthony Cook in prison for life.
On Sept. 18, 1981, Anthony Cook attacked Todd Sabo and Leslie Sawicki, who had
been drinking in the back of a van parked at an apartment complex in the 4100
block of North Terrace View Drive near Richards Road.
Ms. Sawicki managed to escape while Mr. Sabo fought with Anthony Cook. She
found a phone and called her father and then she called the police. The Ottawa
Hills police station was 0.2 of a mile from the scene, but they didn't send
officers because it was out of their jurisdiction. They referred the call to
Toledo police, but Peter Sawicki arrived at the apartment complex first.
Anthony Cook fatally shot Mr. Sawicki in the throat. Mr. Sabo was shot in the
neck and shoulder, but survived.
The arrest of Anthony Cook for the murder halted the killing spree. He was
sentenced to 15 years to life in prison the next spring.
Police said Nathaniel Cook has never had trouble with the law since that time
other than a few traffic tickets. Mr. Rost said Nathaniel worked at various
jobs, his last in a group home for retarded children.
Police always suspected the brothers were involved with the murders and
attacks, but they were never able to prove it.
Even though former Toledo police Detectives Frank Stiles and Tom Ross, both of
whom are investigators for the prosecutor's office, continued to work on the
cases, they didn't have enough evidence for convictions.
Then, in the fall of 1997, Mrs. Bates was struck with an inspiration in the
middle of the night. She had returned recently from a prosecutor's conference
in Cleveland in which the DNA testing was being discussed for the wrongful
imprisonment trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard for the slaying in 1954 of his wife,
Marilyn.
It occurred to her that police might be able to link the Cooks to some of their
crimes by using DNA tests, which weren't available in the early 1980s. Sgt.
Steve Forrester, a Toledo police detective, began trying to revive the cases.
A search warrant was obtained for the brothers' blood, and the tests indicated
they had raped Mr. Gordon's girlfriend. The statute of limitations had run out
on the kidnapping and rape charges, but prosecutors were able to charge both
men with aggravated murder for Mr. Gordon's death.
Her decision led to yesterday's convictions and the cathartic experience for
the victims' families.
"I would say to all the families of those innocent young people whose cases we
could never solve and whose cases we could never prosecute . . . may those that
you loved, after today, rest in peace," Mrs. Bates said to the victims'
families before the Cooks were sentenced. "Bless your hearts."
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The Cook Brothers' Victims
Vicky Small, 22
Dec. 20, 1973
Her body, shot six times, beaten, and raped, was found in Ottawa Park. Anthony
Cook was alone when this death occurred.
Tom Gordon, 24
May 14, 1980
His body, shot, was found in the trunk of his car in a field off McLean Street.
His girlfriend, raped and stabbed, survived. Both brothers admitted involvement
in this death.
Connie Sue Thompson, 19
Jan. 17, 1981
Her frozen body was found in a creek under a bridge in western Lucas County.
She was raped and stabbed several times. Both brothers admitted involvement in
this death.
Dawn Backes, 12
Feb. 21, 1981
Her tortured, raped body was found in an abandoned Toledo theater. Both
brothers admitted involvement in this death.
Scott Moulton, 21
March 27, 1981
His body was found in the trunk of Ms. Slotkowski's car, which was backed into
a carport on Navarre Avenue. He was shot execution style. Anthony Cook admits
to being involved in this death alone.
Denise Slotkowski, 21
March 27, 1981
Her body was found in the trunk of her car, which was backed into a carport on
Navarre Avenue. She had been raped and shot execution style. Anthony Cook
admits to being involved in this death alone.
Stacey Balonek, 21
Aug. 2, 1981
Her raped, severely beaten body was found in the trunk of Daryle Cole's car,
two blocks from her home. Anthony Cook admits to being involved in this death
alone.
Daryle Cole, 21
Aug. 2, 1981
His severely beaten body was found in the trunk of his car. Anthony Cook admits
to being involved in this death alone.
Peter Sawicki, 43
Sept. 18, 1981
He was shot and killed on Sept. 17, 1981, when trying to rescue his daughter
and her boyfriend, who had been assaulted in their parked van in West Toledo.
Anthony Cook was convicted in 1982 and yesterday confessed to the other crimes.
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Plea bargain gives closure to families
April 7, 2000
BY DALE EMCH
BLADE STAFF WRITER
The lasting impact of the Cook brothers’ acts of sheer evil became more evident
with each tear-choked statement of their victims’ families.
Though most of the murders and rapes the brothers told police they were
involved with took place more than 20 years ago, many of those speaking
yesterday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court still seem to be tortured by the
vileness that their loved ones endured.
Lattie Small’s diminutive frame shook with anger and sobs as she spoke about
the loss of her daughter, Vicky Small, who appears to be Anthony Cook’s first
victim.
”My husband and other children have been shattered by that fatal day, Dec. 20,
[1973],“ Mrs. Small said, tears streaming down her face. ”Me — I’ve cried every
day of my life since it happened and will till I die.“
Mrs. Small, a former Sylvania Township resident who now lives in northeast
Indiana, and her family found out Wednesday afternoon that Anthony Cook told
police he killed and sexually assaulted her daughter on a snowy night just days
before Christmas.
About 40 family members of the eight people that either Anthony or Nathaniel
Cook murdered from 1973 to 1981 attended an emotion-filled hearing during which
the brothers entered guilty pleas for a violent attack on a young couple.
A plea agreement calls for Anthony Cook, 51, to serve 15 years to life in
prison for the 1980 kidnapping and aggravated murder of Tom Gordon. Nathaniel
Cook will receive judicial release in 20 years for the attempted murder of Mr.
Gordon's girlfriend and two counts of kidnapping.
The result was yesterday's hearing, which seemed like a veritable procession of
pain as family member after family member talked about how they have been
wounded by one or both Cooks.
Sharon Backes-Wright, mother of 12-year-old Dawn Rene Backes, offered the most
venomous comments to the brothers. Her daughter was raped, tortured, and killed
by having her skull smashed with a cinder block on Feb. 21, 1981.
"I will never know how long they kept her, tortured, and raped her," Mrs.
Backes-Wright said, quaking with rage. "Their ugly faces were the last thing
she saw on this earth, which had to seem an eternity to her."
Mitch Balonek, brother of Stacey Balonek, offered perhaps the most charitable
remarks of those who addressed the Cooks before they were sentenced.
His sister was with Daryle Cole when Anthony Cook beat them to death with Mr.
Cole's aluminum baseball bat on Aug. 2, 1981. A teacher at Scott High School,
Mr. Balonek said he and his family are still haunted by his sister's murder,
but wondered what would inspire such evilness.
"We live in an awful world that would push a man to this," Mr. Balonek said.
"Indeed, in some ways I pity [Anthony] Cook. Had he lived under different
circumstances, he might have been a good, kind-hearted man. Underneath his cold
exterior may lie the heart and sympathies of one who is too troubled to show
his pain."
At a news conference after the hearing, every family member who spoke to
reporters supported the plea agreement offered by Lucas County Prosecutor Julia
Bates.
Walter Gordon, Tom Gordon's brother and a former Lucas County sheriff's deputy,
said Mrs. Bates was to be commended.
"Look at how long we waited," Mr. Gordon said. "I can't explain how I feel
about Julia and the detectives - they just worked really hard and did a good
job. They almost wiped the slate clean."
Rusty Small, Vicky Small's brother, said he was only 9 when his sister was
murdered. He said he grew up watching the devastation her death caused his
family. He said the plea agreement might allow his family to have some closure.
"There have been a lot of open wounds over the years," Mr. Small said. "You
never forget about her, but it's hard to talk about her. Now we know who did it
and what happened and now he'll pay a price for it."
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