March 6, 1938

May 6, 1938 was a Sunday.  Only The Grand Rapids Herald published and it did so with huge headlines in the Mina Dekker murder and a diagram of the third floor of the Judd Building, 64 Ionia S.W.

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Chief O’Malley was correct in this regard:  “This crime was the work of a fiend.”