Show r t Girl G J 17 7 Slays Parents P Pa r Following Argument EMINENCE Mo March 8 UP UPA UPA A A 17 year old brunette was charged with ith first degree murder Monday Monday after she confessed that she killed her mother during an argument and then murdered her father so that he would not learn of his wife's death Betty Jane Kroeger attractive and well groomed said ald she shot her mother nother Mrs Minnie Kroeger 48 through the head with an Italian automatic pistol her brother had brought back from the war Then she went to the variety store operated by her father Fred Kroeger 50 CO and shot him as helay he heay helay lay ay on a cot where he had been sleeping each nig night t since burglars broke in recently The store is a half block from the Kroeger home Miss Kroeger killed both parents with single shots through their heads Tells Tens of Argument The girls girl's sultry dark eyes flashed as she told Capt J. J A A. Tandy of the state highway patrol how low she and her mother argued Tuesday because Mrs Kroeger refused refused refused re re- fused to let her go to East St St. Louis for a visit We Ve used to live Jive in East St. St Louis and only moved here three years ago Miss Kroeger said I 1 wanted to go there to s see se e some friends but mother wouldn't let me We Ve argued about it and at last I got my brothers brother's gun and shot mother I dragged her body behind a divan but then I got to thinking g that my father would find out about it soon anyway y So I decided decided decided de de- to shoot him too Shoots Father Miss Kroeger said she went to the store let herself in and shot her father as he slept in the rear room of the store She hid his body under a couch Then she tools took the family car carand carand carand and drove to East St. St Louis miles northeast of here where she stayed all of Wednesday She became became became be be- came worried that the bodies had been discovered so she returned here early Thursday That evening she slept on the store couch with her fathers father's body lying ying beneath it She spent Friday night in a hotel room because she was uneasy uneasy uneasy un easy Meanwhile neighbors had become become be be- come suspicious because they had not seen the Kroeg r and acid the store had hat not been open ogen They notified notified rio rio- no no- G G. S. S Sizemore county prosecutor who requested the highway p patrol to investigate Officers found the bodies and seized Miss Miss' e early Sunday |