[2] Their case is notable for the fact that, unlike other siblings who engage in crime, Larry and Danny operated completely independently of one another.
Influenced by their father's authoritarian parenting, the two brothers constantly competed with one another, often fighting over a handful of cents, in addition to being persuaded to drink alcoholic beverages.
Over the next few years, he began to spend much of his free time with her and took part in raising her children, eventually beginning an intimate relationship with her.
The district attorney's office offered to nullify Larry's sentence if he agreed to enlist in the United States Army, which he did.
Devastated by her refusals, he attempted to take his own life on December 23, 1963, by trying to suffocate himself by inhaling exhaust fumes from his 1958 Plymouth Plaza.
[4] Larry then stole $3 and other items of material value, before leaving the car on the side of the road, where it was discovered a few hours later by a police officer.
[5][6] Over the next few months, Larry told a number of acquaintances about the murder, resulting in his arrest in the early morning of June 5, 1964, in front of his friend's house.
[4][7] Larry was unable to name three of his victims, but investigators suspected that one of them might have been 21-year-old Vernon La Benne, a serviceman from Southfield, Michigan.
While working at a gas station near Battle Creek, La Benne was shot dead on April 6, a day before he was due to be married.
The examining doctors concluded that the psychological trauma of his childhood abuse caused him to develop a subconscious hatred towards gas stations, as they reminded him of his father.
[10] Danny attempted to drive to the outskirts of town so he could rape her, but King managed to escape when he took a wrong turn near the Kellogg Community College, after which he threw away his gun and fled.
[11] Danny's car was later found in the parking lot of the pharmacy where King worked and was attacked, and after being identified by the victim, he was arrested.
During this period, he met 15-year-old vagrant Brent Eugene Koster, a local youth with a troubled family life on account of his schizophrenic mother and alcoholic father.
Threatening the girl with a knife, they took Fearnow to the woodlands surrounding Morrow Lake, near Comstock Township, where they raped her several times before Danny strangled her using a plastic bag.
[15] The judge told Koster that he deserved to die in prison and that people like him were why some wanted capital punishment brought back to Michigan.
[4][8] Larry additionally said he made several attempts at suicide by hanging and by ingesting lacquer thinner and gelatin capsules, all of which occurred in the mid-1960s.
[17] In the early 1970s he took up bodybuilding, but at one point stopped playing sports and refused to eat for twenty-nine days, nearly dying from cachexia in the process.
[17] Larry stated that while serving his sentence, he earned a living through usury and social activities, sewing slippers and drawing.
He told an interviewer that he had read many books, filling his educational gaps and developing his eloquence, for which he gained a reputation amongst other inmates as a skilled manipulator.
[13] In September 2020, at yet another parole hearing, the commission, taking into account his apparent remorse and the young age during which he committed his crimes, finally approved his application, as he was considered unlikely to reoffend.