Christmas Card from A Wyoming Executed Killer

Investigating my family history led me to an old trunk, which was filled with loose papers and articles from over the years.  My father collected everything, including clippings from various newspapers.  In the bottom of the truck, we found a series of folders containing the writings and letters, and a Christmas Card from Wyoming convicted and executed killer, Mark Hopkinson.  My father told me of the story, he had been communicating with Hopkinson.  The papers are authentic, and have a bit of tarnish to the paper.  Much of print has been preserved, since it was on the bottom of the trunk. 
January 1992, Wyoming death row inmate Mark Hopkins was executed by lethal injection; which was the only in Wyoming since 1965. Hopkins was given three life sentences for the 1977 home bombing deaths of Evanston Attorney, Vincent Vehar and his family, and was given the death sentence for the 1979 murder of Jeffrey Green. Green was murdered two days before he was to testify against Hopkinson.
For several years, Mark Hopkinson and Al Hamburg exchanged letters about his case and Hamburg always believed there was something fishy about the testimony of the only eye witness against Hopkinson. Mike Hickey, who claimed Hopkinson black mailed him to bomb the Vehar home because Hopkinson knew that 22 year old Hickey and another unidentified male from Evanston, raped and killed a 15 year old girl, Kellie Wychase, then skinned the girl like she was a game animal.
Attorney Gerry Spence was appointed as special prosecutor to give Hopkinson the death sentence. Mike Hickey was granted immunity for the Vehar home bombing and plead guilty to the killing of the 15 year old girl, which he received 20 years in prison to be served in another state under a different name.
Today, Hickey, resides on his inherited family farm near Lonetree, Wyoming.
The other young man that took part in the rape and murder of Wychase was never revealed or charged with these crimes. Letters indicate that the unnamed individual was family to the local investigator.
Al Hamburg wrote letters to the Evanston newspaper, calling for justice for Kellie Wychase; hence, after the letters were published, a woman called Hamburg three times, threatening him.
At the time of the Jeff Green murder, Mark Hopkinson was in a Federal Prison in California.

The State of Wyoming claimed: Hopkinson's friend, Hap Russell, sent two men after Green and kill him.
1990, an Evanston jury convicted Hap Russell; which he was given life in prison; however the Wyoming State Supreme Court overturned the conviction; he was tried again and given life in a second trial. He died of a heart attack before beginning his sentence.
In one of Hopkinson's last court motions, for denial of due process and equal protection of the law; which stated.
"In Sept, 1979 complaint was convicted of ordering unknown killers to kill Jeff Green. The prosecution scenario used in obtaining the conviction was that complaint had hired Hap Russell to hire John Sueasta to hire unknown killers.
Unita County Sheriff, Leonard Hysell, was involved in the investigation, loading up to complainant's trial and conviction in 1979.  After the trial in '79, Sheriff Hysell was in charge of the investigation of the unknown killers. In 1982, he identified the killers as Al Harrison and Joe Vilipondo.  Under oath, he testified he knew who killed the Jeff Green.  In which they were to be arrested and charged., the sworn testimony about the arrest of the killers was at my retrial on the death sentence in Teton County.

In 1983, Leonard Munker, the Wyoming Public Defender was allowed to look at the D.C.I. reports, which showed law enforcement could not connect Hopkinson to Jeff Green's murder or to the known killers of Jeff Green.
In 1983, Val Brinkerhoff, an investigator for the Public Defender's office, obtained evidence that Al Harrison and Joe Vilipondo were the individuals who picked up Green on the day he disappeared and was murdered.
Hysell's position as sheriff and as an individual in charge of the investigation of Jeff Green's murder required him to come forth and admit and correct his perjured testimony. Hysell, by his perjured testimony which covered for Green's killers and allowed the perpetuation of a false conviction has and is denying Mark Hopkinson due process and equal protection of the law." Wrote Hopkinson. 
This was Mark Hopkinson's last motion to save his life and it failed and 20 years after his execution, the killers of Jeff Green have never been arrested.
The motions and letters from Mark Hopkinson to Al Hamburg are available for purchase.  In recent years collectors of gore, ghouls, and grizzly deeds have been marketed.  Here is a tidbit. If interested email me.