16 July 1929 (+) is born in Mound City, United States.

9 October 1947 (x) is convicted for auto theft in St. Joseph, United States.

5 February 1948 (x) is convicted of auto theft and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment in St. Joseph, United States.

10 October 1949 (x) is convicted of forgery for a $10 check at a gas station in Maryville, United States.

18 March 1951 (x) escapes from the State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, United States.

25 August 1955 (x) is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for auto theft in Orrick, United States.

20 November 1959 (x) is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for abduction in St. Joseph, United States.

2 July 1961 (-) raped and stabbed to death Jerry Tharrington in Jefferson City, United States.

21 August 1961 (x) is put in solitary confinement for the rape and stabbing to death of inmate Jerry Tharrington on the prison's kitchen loading dock on 2 July 1961 in Jefferson City, United States.

7 March 1964 (x) escapes in Iola, United States.

28 May 1964 (x) is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for car theft in Oklahoma City, United States.

20 September 1965 (x) is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for burglary in Maitland, United States.

7 December 1967 (x) is sentenced to five years imprisonment for car theft in Kansas City, United States.

21 August 1969 (x) escapes from a prison farm in Kansas City, United States.

27 August 1969 (-) abducted and strangled William Freeman in Antioch, United States.

29 August 1969 (x) beaten and sexually assaulted Gilbert Martinez in San Francisco, United States.

25 April 1973 (x) is sentenced to one year imprisonment for an attack on an unidentified boy in San Francisco, United States.

20 April 1978 (x) escapes from the St. Paul mental hospital in Minneapolis, United States.

26 May 1978 (-) abducted, sexually abused and suffocated Eric Christgen in , .

5 September 1978 (x) is arrested as Richard Clarke for sodomizing an unidentified 16-year-old boy in Omaha, United States.

31 January 1979 (x) is released from a psychiatric hospital after serving 5 months for sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Norfolk, United States.

14 February 1979 (x) 25-year-old Melvin Reynolds confesses to the abduction and murder of 4-year-old Eric Christgen and is sentenced to life-imprisonment, although the murder was committed by Hatcher in St. Joseph, United States.

3 May 1979 (x) is arrested posing as Ron Springer for the assault of 7-year-old Thomas Morton in Omaha, United States.

16 September 1980 (x) escapes from a mental health clinic for sex offenders in Norfolk, United States.

9 October 1980 (x) is arrested as Richard Clark for sodomizing a 17-year-old boy in Lincoln, United States.

13 January 1981 (x) is arrested under the name of Richard Clark, following a knife fight in Des Moines, United States.

20 June 1981 (-) stabbed to death James Churchill in Rock Island, United States.

16 July 1981 (x) is arrested as Richard Clark while abducting 11-year-old Todd Peers in Bettendorf, United States.

18 March 1982 (x) is committed to the Iowa Lunatic Asylum in Mount Pleasant, United States.

7 May 1982 (x) is discharged in Mount Pleasant, United States.

29 July 1982 (-) abducted, raped and asphyxiated Michelle Steele in St. Joseph, United States.

14 October 1983 (x) 30-year-old Melvin Reynolds is released from prison after serving 4 years for a murder committed by Hatcher in Jefferson City, United States.

7 December 1984 (-) commits suicide by hanging in his cell in Jefferson City, United States.