ABSTRACT
During the year 1945 and early in 1946 the citizens of Chicago were horrified by news paper reports of three atrocious murders and the heating of a nurse. All the mur ders followed a pattern, in that they oc curred in small apartments and no evidence of burglary or other apparent motivation was found. In one apartment, in which an ex-Wave was brutally killed, appeared in lip stick on the wall, “For heaven’s sake catch me before I kill more; I cannot con trol myself.” In another, a child of six years was kidnapped and her body dis membered and thrown into various sewers and drains. A ransom note was written and delivered to her parents. In addition, hun dreds of burglaries were reported in a resi dential area in the north side of Chicago.
