Stanley Ketchel
Name: Stanley Ketchel
Alias: The Michigan Assassin
Birth Name: Stanisław Kiecal
Hometown: Butte, Montana, USA
Birthplace: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Died: 1910-10-15 (Age:24)
Height: 175cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Managers: Joe O'Conner, Willie Britt
Also known as the "Michigan Marvel."
Managed by Joe O'Conner, per the August 22, 1908 Tacoma Daily News (Tacoma, WA, USA). Also managed, at least by 1909, by Willie Britt (older brother of Jimmy), who died suddenly Nov. 1, 1909.
In October 1910, Ketchel--eating breakfast obliviously at Col. R.P. Dickinson's Two Bar Ranch farm at Conway, Missouri--was killed by a double-barrelled shotgun blast fired by Walter Dipley, who was jealous over the attention his girlfriend had paid to the middleweight boxing great. Ketchel was only 24-years-old. Dipley got a life sentence.
A little over 17 years later, on Feb. 16, 1928, Ketchell's father, Thomas Kiccal, 74, was found in the barn loft of the family farm near Grand Rapids, Michigan, with his throat slashed. His son, John Kiccal, the younger brother of Stanley, was discovered in possession of a blood-stained knife and arrested for the murder. It was thought the motive was a dispute over land that Stanley had left to the family, purchased from his ring earnings, and which had recently multiplied in value.