Word: kroeger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with exactly the same disadvantages. Before the picture is over, the criminal has proved that law-breaking is the least of the things which put him outside the pale. Without ever showing a flicker of remorse, he double-crosses a fellow crook, murders a lawyer (elegantly played by Berry Kroeger), charms a hard spinster nurse (Betty Garde) into criminal complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl...
...night last week Betty Jane Kroeger, 17, killed her mother. She confessed later: "Mother refused to let me go tb St. Louis, so I shot her." Next morning she drove to her father's store in Eminence, Mo., where he had been spending nights because of a series of robberies, and shot him while he slept. Then she drove to St. Louis, and just "shopped around...