Show 4 I 2 x p 4 t wr r 4 L f f 4 i I p I I IV V lA l i ri r m A t V fr y j 4 1 b i I Ai Press Questioned Ab About out Behead BeheadIngs Ings Robert H. H Hansen 24 radio shop hop e collapses collapses col col- col- col I lapses after being questioned b by police pollee regarding I Man Admits Butchering L. L A. A Employer Wife LOS ANGELES May 17 UP Radio repairman Robert H. H Hansen Hansen Hansen Han- Han sen 24 told officers Monday how he butchered the bodies of his employer employer employer em em- and his wife wiCe tried to burn the heads in an incinerator tor and burled buried the bodies in the desert I Sparky year old son of oC the the victims Ralph A. A and Olga Dirksen Dirksen Dirksen Dirk- Dirk sen was located at a licensed childrens children's childrens children's children's childrens chil chil- drens dren's home hom where Hansen had taken him Hansen booked on suspicion of oC murder will be taken to the desert near Newhall Cal to help find the Dirksen's headless bodies Burns Heads and Hands The gruesome crime was discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered late yesterday when neighbors neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors annoyed by heavy smelly smoke coming from a crude in incinerator incinerator incinerator in- in in Dirksen's East Los Angeles back yard poked into the fire and found the heads and hands Hansen was arrested In the spattered blood-spattered radio shop operated ed by Dirksen Under questioning he admitted the killings occurred in the shop Friday In a trembling voice Hansen told Capt Ray Morris of oC the sheriffs sheriff's homicide squad that Dirksen and his wife quarreled Thursday night When he awoke Friday said Hansen who lived with the Dirk- Dirk sens seas he saw Dirksen beating his wife with a hammer as she lay in bed The son Sparky watched in terror Shoots EmpIo Employer er Hansen grabbed an automatic grappled with Dirksen then shot him He was vague as to how Mrs Dirksen died but implied death was due to the beating He said he took the bodies to two burned heads heads found In an incinerator in fUr rear rea of the shop He lie Is hooked booked on suspicion of murder murden I the desert Saturday in a truck He said he severed the heads and hands with instruments from a doctors doctor's kit and tossed the bodies out under a tree after trying to bury them Return Returning ng to the radio store he dragged out almost anything that would burn and piled It into the Incinerator with the heads and hands He poured five gallons of gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line on the pile pUe and set it afire All day yesterday the fire smoked ed until a neighbor Mrs Marie Hangl complained to Mrs O. O K Stephens the Dirksen's land land- lord The two women discovered the heads and called officers After first claiming the Dirk- Dirk sens had taken a trip east Hansen confessed when the covered blood-covered walls of the radio shop told of the crime |