Man serving life sentence for 1963 Omaha cab driver murder dies in prison

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – A man serving a life sentence for killing an Omaha cab driver in the 1960s is dead.

Robert Hammond was 18 when he was booked for murder in 1963.

News accounts at the time said he was an AWOL soldier from Fort Knox, Kentucky, who, investigators said, shot, robbed and ran over 59-year-old William Edwards — an Omaha cabdriver…

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