The Methodical Murderer

"Mr. Peter Coleman, of Gallapin, Texas, is the most methodical murderer we have read about for many a day. Peter recently went to an undertaker's and ordered a coffin for a neighbor named Smead, hired a grave-digger and four carriages, and then hunted up Smead and shot him."

-The Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 (Red Cloud, Webster County, Nebraska)

Shades of A Fistful of Dollars.