According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, York and Latham strangled both women with their own stockings, stole their money, and dumped the car they had been driving in a ditch.

[2] On June 6, York and Latham attempted to rob a man in a Cadillac near Aiken, South Carolina, but the shots they fired at him missed, and their would-be victim escaped.

On June 8, York and Latham abandoned Whittaker's car near Troy, Illinois, and hitched a ride from a passerby named Albert Reed.

They continued their cross-country killing spree in Wallace, Kansas where on June 9, they shot 62-year-old Otto Ziegler to death, then took his wallet.

[4] While on death row in Kansas, York and Latham associated with Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, the subjects of Truman Capote's book In Cold Blood.

York and Latham's crimes are described in Capote's book, and the men are portrayed in the work as flippant, snide, and lacking any degree of remorse.