PEOPLE: Whatever Happened to the [Highland Park] Class of '65?
This month, it's reunion time for a Highland Park High School class that is haunted by the untimely deaths of 19 classmates.
BY KIRK DOOLEY PUBLISHED IN D MAGAZINE JUNE 1995
One of the most intriguing characters in this high school class was a street-fighter named Jay Heathington, who quietly bragged to classmates that he was the mysterious and elusive "King of Diamonds," a clever and very bold cat burglar who terrorized North Dallas in the mid-'60s.
The burglar struck at some of the biggest mansions in Dallas and was widely assumed to be a member of Dallas society, who knew his victims (hence the nickname).
Several friends of Heathington claim that during their high school years, he took them to houses he had rented and showed them stolen goods he had stored.
Although he was never charged and convicted as the King of Diamonds, Heathington did spend several years in the mid-'70s in the federal prison at Leavenworth for other crimes.
He was killed in 1981 [documents indicate 1984], when his motorcycle slammed into the side of a bus as he was going 50 miles an hour through Preston Center.
This month, it's reunion time for a Highland Park High School class that is haunted by the untimely deaths of 19 classmates.
BY KIRK DOOLEY PUBLISHED IN D MAGAZINE JUNE 1995
One of the most intriguing characters in this high school class was a street-fighter named Jay Heathington, who quietly bragged to classmates that he was the mysterious and elusive "King of Diamonds," a clever and very bold cat burglar who terrorized North Dallas in the mid-'60s.
The burglar struck at some of the biggest mansions in Dallas and was widely assumed to be a member of Dallas society, who knew his victims (hence the nickname).
Several friends of Heathington claim that during their high school years, he took them to houses he had rented and showed them stolen goods he had stored.
Although he was never charged and convicted as the King of Diamonds, Heathington did spend several years in the mid-'70s in the federal prison at Leavenworth for other crimes.
He was killed in 1981 [documents indicate 1984], when his motorcycle slammed into the side of a bus as he was going 50 miles an hour through Preston Center.
PEOPLE: Whatever Happened to the [Highland Park] Class of '65?
This month, it's reunion time for a Highland Park High School class that is haunted by the untimely deaths of 19 classmates.
BY KIRK DOOLEY PUBLISHED IN D MAGAZINE JUNE 1995
One of the most intriguing characters in this high school class was a street-fighter named Jay Heathington, who quietly bragged to classmates that he was the mysterious and elusive "King of Diamonds," a clever and very bold cat burglar who terrorized North Dallas in the mid-'60s.
The burglar struck at some of the biggest mansions in Dallas and was widely assumed to be a member of Dallas society, who knew his victims (hence the nickname).
Several friends of Heathington claim that during their high school years, he took them to houses he had rented and showed them stolen goods he had stored.
Although he was never charged and convicted as the King of Diamonds, Heathington did spend several years in the mid-'70s in the federal prison at Leavenworth for other crimes.
He was killed in 1981 [documents indicate 1984], when his motorcycle slammed into the side of a bus as he was going 50 miles an hour through Preston Center.
This month, it's reunion time for a Highland Park High School class that is haunted by the untimely deaths of 19 classmates.
BY KIRK DOOLEY PUBLISHED IN D MAGAZINE JUNE 1995
One of the most intriguing characters in this high school class was a street-fighter named Jay Heathington, who quietly bragged to classmates that he was the mysterious and elusive "King of Diamonds," a clever and very bold cat burglar who terrorized North Dallas in the mid-'60s.
The burglar struck at some of the biggest mansions in Dallas and was widely assumed to be a member of Dallas society, who knew his victims (hence the nickname).
Several friends of Heathington claim that during their high school years, he took them to houses he had rented and showed them stolen goods he had stored.
Although he was never charged and convicted as the King of Diamonds, Heathington did spend several years in the mid-'70s in the federal prison at Leavenworth for other crimes.
He was killed in 1981 [documents indicate 1984], when his motorcycle slammed into the side of a bus as he was going 50 miles an hour through Preston Center.
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