Seven Nurses Strangled
GV.Z.P.A. Reuter — Copyright) CHICAGO, July 14. The nude and strangled bodies of seven student nurses were found today in a home they occupied in Chicago, police reported. Police believed the women were victims of a sex criminal.
The bodies were discovered shortly after 6 a.m. in the South Chicago Nurses’ Home, United Press International reported.
Scores of police rushed to! the scene and were searching ;' the building for the possibility of more bodies. It was believed to be the largest mass murder in Chicago since the notorious St. Valentine’s Day massacre of 1929, when seven people were shot by gangsters in a North Side garage. A police desk officer said it appeared some of the victims had been tied up.
Police said another nurse discovered the bodies and ran screaming from the building to hail a cruising police car, the Associated Press reported. This nurse gave police the description of a man seen in
the area last night asking for money to go to New Orleans. The man was described as 25 years old, 6feet tall, 1701 b, short black hair, wearing black coat and dark trousers.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31112, 15 July 1966, Page 14
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