MANSFIELD - A nearby writer's book on the infamous 1948 homicides of an Ohio State Reformatory ranch director, his better half and little girl is being made into a Hollywood film.
Two previous OSR detainees — Robert Daniels and John West — entered the John and Nolena Niebel house with stacked firearms searching for a protect named Red Harris, who lived adjacent. The combine guaranteed Harris had abused them while they were detainees in the Mansfield jail, as indicated by News Journal documents.
Despite the fact that they were at the wrong house, the parolees took Niebel, his significant other and their 21-year-old little girl Phyllis, and drove them to a cornfield simply off Fleming Falls Road. Daniels and West trained the Niebels to expel their garments and after that Daniels shot each of them in the head.
The motion picture will be founded on a book composed by Scott Fields, 68, of Mansfield, who composed, "The Mansfield Killings: A Novel Based on True Events" distributed in 2012.
Prohibited Tears Productions of Arkansas is delivering the film, which points of interest the passings and manhunt, Fields said for this present week.
The venture, to be recorded in Hollywood and in Mansfield including the memorable jail which now works as an exhibition hall, ought to be finished by January 2018, Fields said.
Mary Kennard, delegate executive at the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society, and Dan Smith, inventive advertising chief, Wednesday advised Fields to converse with his film individuals and let them know the appreciated tangle is out for them to visit the jail as Fields halted by the jail off Ohio 545.
Fields, who was brought up in LaRue, said he put in 25 years filling in as a Kmart chief in Detroit, however constantly adored written work, having moved on from Ohio University with a noteworthy in English writing. He likewise acted as a supervisor of Pep Boys locally for a long time.
Fields, who has composed a sum of 15 distributed books, all fiction with the exception of "The Mansfield Killings," said his specialist has three other of his books she might want to make into motion pictures.
"I was just three when it happened," Fields said of the horrendous killings. In retirement, he got to be distinctly fixated after finding out about the sad story, composing the book in four months.
Fields said he had few points of interest of shooting areas, having recently gotten the last word that the venture is a go.
The Niebel's child Russ Niebel, who Fields and the News Journal met before, was at American Television College in Chicago on the day his family was killed. Russ Niebel, who lives in Mansfield, was just 22 at the time.
The two parolees were caught following a 14-day manhunt in Ohio when they endeavored to shoot it out with police and sheriff's agents at a street barricade north of Van Wert. The barricade was set up as a feature of the state's greatest manhunt. It included a large portion of the staff of the Ohio Highway Patrol and a lion's share of sheriff's workplaces in Ohio, as indicated by a News Journal front-page story July 23, 1948.
West was shot dead in Van Wert. Daniels was caught unharmed, admitted to seven killings inside the past two weeks, including the "savage, twisted, cornfield murdering" of the three individuals from the Niebel family, the daily paper detailed. Just a couple of hours before their catch, West and Daniels had killed their last two casualties.
Daniels, who later boasted he was the triggerman in the Mansfield family murders, welcomed newsmen to share his last dinner. He was executed in the Ohio State Penitentiary's hot seat Jan. 3, 1949.
At his trial, Daniels' lawyer L.H. Shaft, said his customer initially was sent to Ohio State Reformatory on a burglary conviction.
"While at the reformatory, Daniels was abused and fiercely treated by one 'Red Harris,' a watch there," Beam said.
Before coming to Mansfield, Daniels and West were in Michigan where Daniels considered an obsession to "square records with Red Harris," the daily paper revealed.
"He came here, however was not able discover Harris. They went to the Niebel house just to acquire Harris' address," Beam said. "He just knew Niebel by associate and didn't realize that he was hitched and had a family."
Two previous OSR detainees — Robert Daniels and John West — entered the John and Nolena Niebel house with stacked firearms searching for a protect named Red Harris, who lived adjacent. The combine guaranteed Harris had abused them while they were detainees in the Mansfield jail, as indicated by News Journal documents.
Despite the fact that they were at the wrong house, the parolees took Niebel, his significant other and their 21-year-old little girl Phyllis, and drove them to a cornfield simply off Fleming Falls Road. Daniels and West trained the Niebels to expel their garments and after that Daniels shot each of them in the head.
The motion picture will be founded on a book composed by Scott Fields, 68, of Mansfield, who composed, "The Mansfield Killings: A Novel Based on True Events" distributed in 2012.
Prohibited Tears Productions of Arkansas is delivering the film, which points of interest the passings and manhunt, Fields said for this present week.
The venture, to be recorded in Hollywood and in Mansfield including the memorable jail which now works as an exhibition hall, ought to be finished by January 2018, Fields said.
Mary Kennard, delegate executive at the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society, and Dan Smith, inventive advertising chief, Wednesday advised Fields to converse with his film individuals and let them know the appreciated tangle is out for them to visit the jail as Fields halted by the jail off Ohio 545.
Fields, who was brought up in LaRue, said he put in 25 years filling in as a Kmart chief in Detroit, however constantly adored written work, having moved on from Ohio University with a noteworthy in English writing. He likewise acted as a supervisor of Pep Boys locally for a long time.
Fields, who has composed a sum of 15 distributed books, all fiction with the exception of "The Mansfield Killings," said his specialist has three other of his books she might want to make into motion pictures.
"I was just three when it happened," Fields said of the horrendous killings. In retirement, he got to be distinctly fixated after finding out about the sad story, composing the book in four months.
Fields said he had few points of interest of shooting areas, having recently gotten the last word that the venture is a go.
The Niebel's child Russ Niebel, who Fields and the News Journal met before, was at American Television College in Chicago on the day his family was killed. Russ Niebel, who lives in Mansfield, was just 22 at the time.
The two parolees were caught following a 14-day manhunt in Ohio when they endeavored to shoot it out with police and sheriff's agents at a street barricade north of Van Wert. The barricade was set up as a feature of the state's greatest manhunt. It included a large portion of the staff of the Ohio Highway Patrol and a lion's share of sheriff's workplaces in Ohio, as indicated by a News Journal front-page story July 23, 1948.
West was shot dead in Van Wert. Daniels was caught unharmed, admitted to seven killings inside the past two weeks, including the "savage, twisted, cornfield murdering" of the three individuals from the Niebel family, the daily paper detailed. Just a couple of hours before their catch, West and Daniels had killed their last two casualties.
Daniels, who later boasted he was the triggerman in the Mansfield family murders, welcomed newsmen to share his last dinner. He was executed in the Ohio State Penitentiary's hot seat Jan. 3, 1949.
At his trial, Daniels' lawyer L.H. Shaft, said his customer initially was sent to Ohio State Reformatory on a burglary conviction.
"While at the reformatory, Daniels was abused and fiercely treated by one 'Red Harris,' a watch there," Beam said.
Before coming to Mansfield, Daniels and West were in Michigan where Daniels considered an obsession to "square records with Red Harris," the daily paper revealed.
"He came here, however was not able discover Harris. They went to the Niebel house just to acquire Harris' address," Beam said. "He just knew Niebel by associate and didn't realize that he was hitched and had a family."
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