Jewish Ritual Murder — Chicago, 1955

The two female victims had been tormented by repeated puncture wounds on the upper torso, thighs and buttocks, suggesting a sadistic sexual element in the killers’ motivations, but the two youngest male victims, the Schuesslers, had been transfixed through the hands, wrists, and feet by larger weapons similar to nails or a carpenter’s awl, inflicting wounds very similar to the so-called stigmata, the wounds of Christ.