[CHICAGO CRIME]. Crime Scene and Autopsy Photographs from the Infamous Triple Murder of John Schuessler, Anton Schuessler and Robert Peterson, from the Collection of Harry J. Glos, Chief Investigator for the Cook County Coroner's Office. [Illinois, ca. 1950s]. Collection includes nearly 60 black and white crime scene and autopsy photographs, and nearly 30 photographs printed on plain paper of similar nature. Photos are 8 x 10". Worn, soiled, creased, occasional tears, as one would expect from materials used in the investigation of this crime. With this collection is a police bulletin from October 20, 1955, with the boys pictured on the front page. Fine.On October 16, 1955, the Schuessler brothers went with their friend, Robert Peterson, to a movie downtown Chicago. When they didn't return home at a reasonable time, their fathers went out to search for them. They found out that the boys had been to a bowling alley earlier that day but didn't find them. The families contacted the police (it is unclear if the police began their search that night or the next day). After two days of fruitless searching, their naked bodies were discovered in a ditch near a Northwest Side gravel path. Their clothes weren't at the scene. The oldest boy, Robert Peterson, had 14 stab wounds. Because the police neglected to seal off the crime scene, it became contaminated by reporters and onlookers. The case went cold, and remained unsolved until 1994, when police were investigating arson at a horse stables, and were continuing an unsolved investigation of the disappearance of candy heiress Helen Vorhees Branch. During this investigation, police came across people who implicated Kenneth Hansen for the triple-murder. In July of 1994, ?police arrested Hansen on a warrant charging him with arson for a 1970 fire that destroyed a competitor's business" (Chicago Tribune). Later that same day, Hansen was charged with the Peterson ? Schuessler murders. Although the sequence of events of the murder is unclear, police believe that after the boys left the bowling alley, they chose to hitchhike home. Hansen picked them up and took them to the horse stables where he worked; he then offered them money for sex, and they refused. He then raped and murdered them. It is generally believed that Robert Peterson tried to fight Hansen, hence his stab wounds. The Chicago Tribune reported that seven months after the murders, police had wanted to exhume the bodies to look for more evidence, when a fire destroyed the horse stables where Hansen worked; it is believed that Hansen started this fire to destroy any clues as to his guilt. The bodies were still exhumed, and hay was found in the boys' lungs. Hansen had been convicted of the murders in 1995, but his conviction was thrown out on a technicality. In 2002, he was convicted again and died in prison in 2007. IN THIS GROUP, THERE IS A PHOTO OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS WITH AN IMPRESSION OF A HORSE MEDALLION ON HIS HIP; THIS PHOTO IS THE ?MISSING LINK" WHICH HELPED TO ESTABLISH HANSEN'S GUILT. Measurements: 15 x 10 x 3".