Fort Wayne man surrenders amid fear of killing wife
Ralph Lobaugh, paroled husband and factory worker, confessed to killing three women in Fort Wayne in the 1944 cases. He told police a fear of harming his wife caused him to surrender after a publicized polygraph. Investigators cited taped confessions and said Lobaugh’s crimes were linked to earlier slayings of Anal Kugell, Dorothea Howard, and Billie Banga.
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Dorothea Howard
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Drowning Case Ties to Soldier and Unsolved Murder
A garbled report links a drowning near Garfield Heights to a prior unsolved murder and a soldier on furlough. Authorities questioned Lobaugh about the deaths and a related attack, while a jury considers charges as details remain unclear. Pullman cars report record wartime and postwar travel.
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Unclear OCR Fragment Describes Traffic Incident
The readable text mentions a car company driver averaging about ten miles daily, a court charged matter, and a judge quoting remarks about horn blowing in a downtown business district after a marriage. Specific names, places, and outcomes are obscured by garbled text.
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