James H. Snook

James Howard Snook (September 17, 1879 – February 28, 1930) was an American Olympic sport shooter, veterinarian, professor, and convicted murderer. He won two gold medals in team events for the United States at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Outside of sport, he worked as a professor and a veterinary surgeon at the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, where he invented a surgical instrument called the Snook hook. In 1929 he murdered Theora Hix, a student with whom he had an extramarital affair. The murder trial received widespread media attention before he was sentenced to death an

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