Silas Jayne
One thing that all of these murders have in common… Silas Jayne. Silas Jayne is suspected being directly responsible for or ordering the murders of:
— the 1955 disappearance and murder of John Schuessler, aged 13, his brother Anton Jr., aged 11, and their friend Robert Peterson, aged 14
— the 1977 disappearance and murder of Brach’s candy heiress Helen Brach
— the 1965 murder of Cheryl Lynn Rude of a car bombing
— the 1966 disappearance and murder of Ann Miller, 21, Patricia Blough, 19, and Renee Bruhl, 20 (these women may have been witnesses to the planting of the car bomb that killed 22-year-old Cheryl Lynn Rude)
— 1969 murder of Frank Michelle Jr. (Silas successfully claimed self-defense despite the fact that Michelle was shot nine times, and with three different weapons: an M1 carbine and .22- and .38-caliber pistols, and Silas reportedly boasted of crushing the man’s testicles, using vise-grip pliers)
— In 1973, Jayne went to prison for the murder of his half brother, George Jayne, who he had hired a hitman to kill George Jayne
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Read More About Silas Jayne:
- Wikipedia Entry
- Blood Feud
- The Malefactor Register: Death and Horses
- The Hideous Chicago Triple Child Murder That Was Finally Solved ... After 40 Years
- The Indiana Dunes Disappearance of 1966
- Disappearance of Renee Bruhl, Patricia Blough, and Ann Miller
- Unwrapping the Disappearance of Helen Brach
- Missing candy heiress was kidnapped, beaten, and shot on orders from a notorious Chicagoland horse dealer
- The Disappearance of Helen Brach
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