Many of the best known hobo songs of the 1930s were written by urban sophisticates who never spent a moment in an open boxcar. Tunesmiths Waldo O'Neal ("Hobo Bill's Last Ride") and Carson Robinson ...

But some law enforcement officers who have traced their activities also know them as the “boxcar killers,” and ... But they are reputed to be a group of hobo killers who primarily prey on ...