Joseph Corbett Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Convicted murderer
Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1928
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, United States
Date of Death: 24-Aug-2009
Profession: criminal
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Joseph Corbett Jr.
- Joseph Corbett Jr.
- (October 25, 1928 – August 24, 2009) was convicted of the 1960 kidnapping and murder of Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors beer fortune.Corbett was convicted of shooting a man in the back of the head in 1951, which he claimed was self-defense.
- Corbett was placed in a maximum-security prison and due to good behavior, he was later transferred to minimum security, from which he then escaped.On the morning of February 9, 1960, Adolph Coors III, the 45-year-old CEO and chairman of the board of the Coors brewery, left his house for work, but never arrived.
- A delivery man found Coors' station wagon abandoned, and blood droplets were found nearby.
- Corbett was implicated, and the FBI began a manhunt that spanned from California to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and eventually to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- In March 1960, the FBI added Corbett to its Ten Most Wanted list.On September 11, 1960, Coors' remains were found in a trash dump, with two bullet wounds in his back.Corbett was finally arrested October 29, 1960 in Vancouver by Canadian police after the Vancouver police recognized his car parked outside a motor inn.
- Since the kidnap and murder occurred in Colorado, the state charged Corbett with murder.On March 29, 1961, Corbett was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- He was paroled and released from prison on December 12, 1980.In 1996 Corbett gave his only interview following his release from prison; in it, he maintained his innocence.Corbett committed suicide on August 24, 2009.
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