This is the documented grave of a convicted criminal. Information below comes from public records.
Lee Roy Leick
June 18, 1923 โ January 22, 1960Convicted 1953
Buried at:
Riverside Cemetery , Denver, Colorado ยท Section A, Row 34 (military marker: Texas PFC 774 Tech SCH SQ AAF World War II)
Criminal History (Public Record)
Convicted (after multiple trials and appeals) of murdering his wife in 1953 to collect life insurance. He was executed by gas chamber at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City on January 22, 1960, after spending years on death row with numerous stays.
Background
Lee Roy Leick (also spelled LeRoy Adolph Leick) was a Texas native and WWII veteran executed in Colorado for the 1953 murder of his wife, Evelyn Emma Leick, as part of an insurance fraud plot.
Contemporary Colorado newspaper coverage of the 1953 murder, trials, and 1960 execution
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