Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-23 | Page 4 | The Case of the "Good Boy"

The Case of the Good BoyE Boy E strange case of John Fiorenza John Fiorenza John I l' l was always a good boy might boy might never have been solved by the storied d deductive methods of the style old-style detective nor any amount of b by dogged investigators if th the aid of t science had not entered the baffling manh manhunt nt The tub slayer of exquisite Nancy Evans Tit Tit Tit- was was' trapped by a literal shred of evidence evi evi- evi- evi dence dence-a dence a fragment of upholsterers upholsterer's cord found when the nearly nude victims victim's body was taken from the bathtub in her het apartment Much in the same manner as the wood in inthe inthe inthe the Hauptmann ladder was traced from forest to mill to lumber yard to the he slayers slayer's Bronx attic the inch 13 bit of twine was tracked down to the factory which made it to the shop of Fiorenza's employer to Fiorenza himself Confronted with it he confessed and characterized character characterized himself as a maniac But the psychiatric clinic found no evidence of mental defect defect to to it this year old love slayer was a weak emotional emotional emo emo- youth inadequate to meeting emergent situations S Sixty five detectives were assigned to the litterton case After exhausting ing every resource resource at their command almost everything movable was taken to the police laboratory In cramped quarters but with every sort of scientific equipment equip equip- ment and reagent used in crime research Deputy Dep Dep- uty Chief Inspector OConnell O'Connell a college graduate graduate grad grad- graduate and his trained college-trained assistants went to work Microscopes ultra violet ray apparatus cameras ray X-ray y equipment fingerprint developer developer developer devel devel- oper and many other aids were called into play The laboratory found nothing of use until work w was as s begun on the bit of cord When th the work Was finished so was the case of the good boy oy The he I unaided human eye could not have tied fled this shred of evidence but technicians and scientific aids made of it a hangman's noose for J John hn Fiorenza Inequalities in educational opportunity in th the United States are too obvious to need comment S Some me st states tes have public school programs costin costing 35 35 per child chUd on the average while other expend I f more more than Professor Professor Jo John n K Norton columbia Co co- lumbia university