MENTALLY UNBALANCED
MURDERER OF FOUR CHILDREN
PSYCHIATRIC BOARD’S FINDING Rec. 8 p.m. NEW YORK. June 10. A psychiatric board at Lapeer, Michigan, by a majority of two to one. declared Oliver Terpenning, aged 16, mentally unbalanced. Terpenning had confessed that he shot and killed four children on May 26 while they were gathering wild flowers because he “ always wondered what it would be like to kill somebody.” The psychiatric board’s decision, which was opposed by one member who thought that Terpenning was sane, was announced shortly before he was due for arraignment on a first degree murder warrant.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26485, 12 June 1947, Page 5
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98MENTALLY UNBALANCED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26485, 12 June 1947, Page 5
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