Murder of Christopher Hammer

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On September 22, 1993, in Lucas County, Ohio, 22-year-old Christopher A. Hammer (1971 – September 22, 1993) was robbed and beaten by his former roommate Archie James Dixon (born May 30, 1973) and a second man named Timothy Lee Hoffner (born June 6, 1972), who both took him to a remote wooded area and buried him alive in a shallow grave. The two men also stole Hammer's car in order to sell it and even made use of Hammer's birth certificate and social security card to receive state identification papers to facilitate the sale of Hammer's car, and they were subsequently arrested and charged with murdering Hammer. The two men were found guilty of multiple counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping, robbery and forgery, and sentenced to death after separate trials. Dixon's girlfriend, Kirsten Wilkerson, who helped drive the killers and victim to the shallow grave, was sentenced to six to 25 years in prison for kidnapping. Both Dixon and Hoffner are currently scheduled to be executed a month apart...

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