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...victims, it seemed plain, of a thug who invaded their Staten Island -home (TIME, Sept. 15). Son Melvin Dean, 8, told police that he was awakened and choked in the night by a white-masked prowler. The child cried for his parents, who came running. Before both died of knife wounds, Loujean Nimer is reported to have told police that the prowler was "tall as my husband, same build" (5 ft. 7 in., 160 Ibs.). In the public shock that followed, nobody got more sympathy than little (4 ft. 4½ in., 68 Ibs.), orphaned Dean Nimer. Dean accompanied...
...then Mom"). He had planned the parricide, he said, while lying in bed several nights before. On the night of the crime, police said, Dean read an article in the Mormon magazine Era entitled, "I Think of Papa." It was illustrated by gnarled hands peeling an apple with a knife, ended: "How priceless is the memory of a good father." Dean left his Boy Scout knife folded inside Era, then went to bed. Later, he told police, he stole downstairs for a kitchen knife, crept back up and killed his sleeping parents. Did his dying mother, then, pass...
Remanded to Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, little Dean began a long period of intense psychiatric observation. A possible item on the agenda: putting a doll mother and a knife in his hands to see his reaction. Other tests will inevitably get at the truth of his "statements," which alone prove that whether he is a guilty boy or not, Dean Nimer is a very sick...
...cops scoured Staten Island, picked up suspects, kicked up lawns looking for a knife. They groped for explanations, e.g., maybe the killer was a psychotic from the hospital, checked records, bars, neighbors. But neither dragnet nor theories helped the Nimers. Soon after they were carried out and neighbors took the children away, Loujean and Melvin both died, and with them died the nice family and the dreams that had almost come true...
Guide Piper. In San Antonio, when a knife-wielding hood accosted Jose Martinez Jr., Jose went right on walking, parried the man's threats until he had led him to the police station, where cops made the arrest...