Related: 11+ Bizarre Creations of Nature That Just Have to Be from Another Planetįast forward to the summer of 1989: Grissom was 28 years old and running his own painting and maintenance company in the Kansas City area. He was sent away to the Kansas Juvenile Detention Facility for three years, eventually getting out in 1980, at 19. Police followed footsteps in the snow leading away from the crime scene and quickly arrested Grissom. The crime was particularly gruesome – the teenaged Grissom tied 72-year-old Hazel Meeker to a chair and stabbed her with a railroad spike. When he was only 16 years old, Grissom murdered an elderly woman in Lansing, Kansas. In fact, a detective later referred to him as “ a Don Juan with an athletic build.” But Grissom had a dark past that most people didn’t know about.
He was good looking, charming, and charismatic. At first glance, Richard Grissom seemed like the kind of guy women would love to talk to.