Killer of 3 boys in '55 dies
Kenneth Hansen, a former horseman serving a 200-year sentence for the 1955 slayings of three young boys, a crime often blamed for ending a more innocent era in Chicago, died in prison on Wednesday.
The Schuessler brothers and Robert Peterson disappeared Oct. 16, 1955, after taking the train to the Loop to see a movie. Their naked and battered bodies turned up two days later in a ditch near a Northwest Side bridle path.
"I think he died too soon. He should have lingered," said John Rotunno, an ATF special agent who, with his partner James Grady, helped put together the case that led to Hansen's conviction. "I know one thing, he's not with those boys. I just can't talk about those kids anymore."
8 comments:
He was framed. A young John Gacy probably did it. The victims lived in the same area as Gacy.
I think rosco has been playing with his rosco too much. This guy was guilty as hell and justice has finally been served.
Rosco probably thinks OJ was innocent also. Pardon me while I puke.
rosco
seriously....are u on drugs?
The (young at the time) Chicago Dick who worked many, many years on this case wrote a book about these boys. The case haunted him so much, that he contributes money to various children's charities. He has a website and is still active...
This is in conjunction with the Brach Heiress murder.
I remember very well the murder of these boys. I believe it was the same year of the Grimes girls and Judith Mae Anderson murders. If was beginning of the end of innocence in this city.
Yipes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is that Al Chase or what!!!!!!!
The Grimes sisters and Judith Mae Anderson were murdered in 1957. I was 7 1/2 at the time, and remember how upset the adultd were.
Years later,(early 90's) while working in a hospital as an R.N., I had a patient. named Ralph Anderson. When he saw my name tag, JUDY, it must have triggered a flood of emotions, for it was his daughter who was so brutally murdered and dismembered over 30 years before. He terfully described the night she disappeared, and how it was he (at his insistance) who identified her head. I felt so bad for him, to have lost his only daughter in such a horrific way.
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