Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 138

Page Ten Chicago Sunday Tribune 4 AW WILLIAM GEORGE HEIRENS, conl.Med triple murdorer. handcuffed to Deputy Sheriffs Al Mc-Gaif (Uft) and Tony L. Tourneau. The 17 year old student's recital ol crime includes the slay-ing of Susanne Degnan. Miss Frances Brown.

33. a former Ware; and Mrs. Josephine Ross. 43. In Susanne Degnan's bedroom.

Heirens re-enacts the slaying of the child. Besides three killings, he confessed two shootings, an assault, and so many burglaries that he himself cannot remember them aU. i Physically. Heirens is of bulky build, with massire I shoulders and chest. He is 6 feet tall and weighs 190 V' 1 I pounds.

His hair, never covered with a hat. is black. A sophomore this summer at the University of Chicago, the youth was 16 when he entered that institution by examination falL Behind him already was a career of crime: A series of burglaries, which led in 1942 to arrest and a year in a disciplinary school; and other burglaries in 1943. for which he again was arrested. Tribun photot Heirens, whose inscrutability is apparent in the two photos above, was sent following his second arrest to St.

Bede academy. Peru, I1L During three years there his scholarship was mediocre, but his conduct and leadership were exemplary. Authorities characterise him as a youth who sought in crime to find release from abnormal urges which he says have possessed him since childhood..