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The nude body of Josephine Alice Ross, 45, twice-divorced widow, was found lying on a tumbled bloody bed in her apartment at 4108 Kenmore Avenue, June 7, 1945.

Her daughter, Jacqueline Miller, 17, an employee in a food store at Wilson Avenue and Broadway,

found the body when she came home for lunch.

A red dress had been tied around Mrs. Ross's throat with a stocking,

and the wounds in her neck had been drawn together with adhesive tape.

The bathtub was partly filled with garments and bloody water.

The victim's marriages to John Walsh and Herbert Miller,

respectively, ended in divorce, her daughter said. Her third husband, Herbert Ross, died last July.

Elmer Nelson, janitor at the apartment house, told police he saw a dark-haired, well-dressed man leave the building by the fire escape between noon and 1 p.m. The man wore a white sweater

bearing what may have been bloodstains, he said. Mrs. Eileen Huffman, 34, of 650 Waverland Avenue, told police that a man answering the description

of the one seen leaving the Kenmore Avenue building had threatened her with a gun

earlier in the day while she was in the basement.

The intruder tied her hands with clothesline

and attempted to rape her,

but fled when she screamed, Mrs. Huffman said.

Her home is five blocks from the scene of the slaying.

The song. True Crime Historian presents yesterday's news, tales of classic scandals, scoundals, and scourges, told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism.

Hang on to your seats, folks.

Episode 291 is another wild ride down psychopath lane.

Folks in a nice Chicago neighborhood are scandalized when a string of murders go from fearsome to gruesome.

Police get their man, or men, depending on how you look at it, almost by accident,

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