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itr-v vil# T.if: '/’i'. ;j- ►/ A'*' :\1.IS4Sa. fs-*s.%intV- *•e-isEAST LANSING, Mich. (UP)Police OommissionerDonald S. Leonard said today that Theodore Hillefe, 19-year-old Detroit handyman and mental dullard; has fully confessed the grisly sex slaying of six-year old George Counter in Detroit.Leonard said the confession was “informal” during preliminary questioning, . but further stenographic statements will beCaptured’slitmididCapture of. Hilles and his admission of the sadistic slaying caine within a few hours alter a two-state , alarm had been spread, ordering his arrest. Po- ] goi lice nabbed Hilles near Pinckney where he was hitch-rhiking.Leonard said Hilles glibly admitted attempting to pervert I tioi the youngster yesterday after-1 unlt;noon while they were playingtogether.da}puiticLeonard added that Hillestold him how he choked andanlt;undressed the boy when he/Uagbalked at his advances. He lateraJ.igtoicesei;ecited in 'detail how he attempt-te| ed to cut and burn the youngster’s body in the garage of a Detroit hotel.Headed For Pinckney. - . r. • t . _Id-1 State Police said Hilles ad-. nyyic I mitted „that he attended a show ] and carnival in Detroit after slaying the body and then head- I ^1 * ed for Pinckney Where he was f0] captured. |Hilles was arrested by State Police Troopers Walter Teddy and John Mahon a few hours earlier this morning 1% mileswest of Pinckney, ending a two state manhunt for the suspected slayer of George Counter,Trooper Teddy. said Hilles readily admitted his identity and confessed the grisley Detroit slaying which was described £s the “most sadistic crime” ii recent years in the* metropolitan area.P.a.,aladistnen-it-heryib-irele-ursofoeanoofmtr
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Marshall Evening Chronicle
Marshall, Michigan, US
Thu, Apr 21, 1949
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