James A. Jack
Born: 1928 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Jack was born in Chicago. Biography: James A. Jack served in both World War Two and Korea and was a detective with the Chicago Police Department for many years before going into corporate security. Of all the hardships he endured and horrors he witnessed, one case more than any other haunted him and let him to write a book - ''Three Boys Missing: The Tragedy That Exposed the Pedophilia Underworld''. With a year on the Chicago Police force, James was one of the first investigators on the case and was the first to talk to the parents of the missing boys. He would go on to have an honorable 14-year career and be decorated for solving a high number of homicides. He would serve the governor of Illinois as well as head of security for the Midwest division of Toys R Us for 25 years. But it was this case, known as the Peterson-Schuessler murders, that haunted him for many years as the one that almost got away.
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Three Boys Missing: The Tragedy That Exposed the Pedophilia Underworld ISBN: 0977628140 OCLC: 72849384 HPH Pub., Chicago, IL : 2006. On October 16, 1955, three grade-school boys went to downtown Chicago by bus to see a movie. They never returned. Two days later, after a massive hunt for the boys by hundreds of police officers and detectives, their bodies were found, naked, beaten, and bloodied. The mystery of what happened to them would not be resolved until 40 years later and 41,000 police interviews -- after an FBI informant's statement led to the arrest and eventual conviction of a sexual-deviant-turned-triple-murderer. |