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- Robert_Nixon_(serial_killer) abstract "Robert Nixon (ca. 1919-June 16, 1939) was an American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana around 1919, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles \"brick bat murders\" of 1937. Depicted with racist imagery in the mainsttream press after his arrest, he was given the nickname the \"Brick Moron\" as he killed his victims with bricks and was depicted as dimwitted.Convicted of murder, he was executed in Chicago in 1939. Nixon served as the basis of the character of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's 1940 social protest novel Native Son.".