Palatine Library Adult Program --"The Shocking Triple Murder of 1955"

On Tuesday, October 6, from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m., Palatine 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 and dynamic speaker 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 forty 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 fascinating aspects of this crime and what it took to solve it so many years later.

To sign up or for more information, please call 847-358-5881, x167 or visit www.palatinelibrary.org.

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