Author discusses book about 1955 triple homicide
On Tuesday, Oct. 6, from 7 to 8 p.m., Palatine Public Library hosts a program on the 50th anniversary of a crime that changed the simple ways of the 1950s and everyone's view of the world after three children were murdered.
Author Richard Lindberg discusses his book, "Shattered Sense of Innocence: The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children."
On the Northwest side of Chicago in 1955, three grammar school boys ventured downtown to a movie on a fall Sunday afternoon and disappeared. The bodies of brothers John and Anton Schuessler, along with their friend, Bobby Peterson, were found two days later in a local forest preserve.
It took 40 years before they found who murdered these boys, and because of the crime, changed how parents took caution with their children forever. Hear the author talk about the aspects of this crime and what it took to solve it so many years later.
To sign up or for more information, call (847) 358-5881, ext. 167, or visit www.palatinelibrary.org.
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