Gomez snuck up behind him and bashed his head in with a rock, fracturing his skull and ultimately killing him. On June 22, Gomez was sheltering in Merced, California when he spotted 60-year-old George Jones walk into the hobo camp there and find a spot to begin cooking. Ten days later, he used a wood plank to bash to death an unidentified sleeping hobo, and searched through his coat and stole $20. He beat to death Elmer Cushman who was sitting in a rail car, and pocketed $16. On May 26, 1951, Gomez resumed his killing spree, this time claiming six more victims in little under four months. Gomez simply returned to the homeless lifestyle without killing anyone for the time being. After killing him, Gomez disposed of the rifle used to kill Cunningham and attempted to flee to Los Angeles, but was arrested by authorities on an unrelated charge for vagrancy, for which he served thirty days in jail before being released in December. While there, he murdered 50-year-old Earl Franklin Woods by bashing him to death with a large rock. Just eight days later, on November 18 or 19, Gomez wound up in Mojave. The only witness to the killing, John Kapusta, couldn't identify Gomez based on the fact he was blind in one eye. The second victim was 42-year-old Warren Hood Cunningham who, on November 11, 1950, was shot to death after he accused Gomez of stealing his beer. The first victim, an unidentified man, was killed in the summer of 1950, the cause of death being a wine bottle smashed against his head.
During the first series, it took Gomez over four months to kill three people.
One interesting detail is that Gomez appeared to have taken 7 1⁄2 month break from killing during his spree. He used numerous methods in his murders, including shooting them, beat them with a wood plank, smash them with a bottle, and bash their head's in with rocks. Gomez chose fellow homeless men as his victims, roughly middle-aged whom he often preyed on while wandering around railroad cars. Īs time passed, Gomez became more and more motivated by financial gain, eventually causing him to begin robbing and killing people. He was brought to a prison camp, but one day when guards were not looking Gomez simply walked off, not to be seen again for the next two years. In 1946 Lloyd was paroled, but was returned to prison after being convicted in 1948 for assault. He was later arrested in Cedar City, Utah and was extradited back to Nevada, for which he was sentenced to four years imprisonment. Armed with a knife, Gomez forced the boy to hand over his rifle, and once in hand of it threatened the youth before fleeing the area. On March 26, 1942, Gomez accosted a 10-year-old boy in a field near Caliente. In 1942, Gomez was arrested but later released by Sacramento County deputies on suspicion of dodging the draft, since at the time the United States was at war with Germany and Japan following inserting itself into World War II. Later in his life, Gomez started to go under the pseudonym of Harry Jenks.
He is known to have traveled extensively around the west coast through freight trains. Little is known about Gomez’s childhood, but once leaving his parents' house in 1939 lacking formal education, he was never able to afford substantial living conditions leading to him becoming homeless. Gomez was born on December 6, 1923, in Caliente, Nevada to Indian- Mexican parents.
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