He banged the gavel. They beat my baby to death. All the same, Lois seemed to Sherwood very nice and polite. Thomson, 57, had once been among Minnesota’s top criminal defense lawyers, but what with a penchant for drinking and late nights and race tracks, the high-profile cases had stopped a decade ago. Robert Jurgens was now 26. The next thing he heard were screams and hollers, coming from Dennis’ room. He saw how he was allowed to be placed. “I was left helpless at that point,” Judge Gingold said. Pictures were taped crookedly to walls that seemed more in need of fresh paint than works of art. Lois obviously bought into that dream. Jerry Sherwood grasped her children. “That’s Dennis, just after Lois got him,” Sherwood said. . Forcing Dennis to kneel on a broomstick, she had trained him by the age of 3 to recite the half-hour Rosary by heart, something he had done, his voice quavering in fear, at a family funeral. Robinson was still a high school student when his father, a Chicago policeman, was fatally shot when making an arrest. This time she was 2 months pregnant with a precious little boy. ( Log Out / but there is nothing about the advancement in the recognition of the battered-child syndrome that in any way came into play when Dr. McGee changed that death certificate.”. She feared attacking the welfare system, she said recently. For the first year of Dennis’ life he lived in foster care with an elderly woman who’d loved and looked after him. The boys’ adoptive parents, Lois and Harold Jurgens, returned to their house on Gardenette Drive, alone but free of any charge. Harold stated that Dennis always has constipation problems and that he didn’t seem to know how to force bowels from his rectum. The doctors on both sides checked out Lois Jurgens and both decided she was OK, Judge Gingold said recently. The Death of Superman was a 1992 crossover between DC Comics’ multiple Superman titles in which Superman tragically died saving Metropolis from an admittedly gimmicky space monster called Doomsday. For their part, Lois’ family members, including her stepchildren, were older and no longer afraid of her and finally at the age of 62, Lois was brought to the trial she should have had 21 years earlier. There are many here who now derive considerable satisfaction from the outcome of the Jurgens murder case. Being a ward of the state, she was forced to give up her son after his birth. Relatives watched and were astonished. There are understandable reasons. “Clayton,” Elledge said. The first markings of the evolution, as it happens, began just as Dennis was arriving in the Jurgens home. Their former foster mother in Kentucky visited them after they fled the Jurgenses and was horrified. It was recorded as being at the level of a person who had died of starvation. WWII had ended in 1945. On the bench, Judge Marsden felt he was losing his own composure. All that time lost from my family, Elledge thought. It was so crazy that it almost seemed normal, one of the boys, Grant, said. He wanted a family, he wanted parents. Siegel talks about twists of fate on his website and how often critical events arise out of random chance. She had never asked Lois about sores and marks on Dennis because it wasn’t her business; she wasn’t nosy. The most telling evidence that times had changed since Dennis’ death came in the immediate, decisive responses she now triggered. She had shuttled for years among relatives, her father, foster homes, a stepmother. In the July 7, 1962, edition of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. But he needed to reach the truth, as a brother to Dennis, as a police officer. Police and protective service officials should be notified. Some may call it providence. They had hired a lawyer to press their case. Within three days, Meehan and Kindle had tracked down VanderWyst, now retired and ailing, a victim of bone cancer. Yes, a child had died in their home. “The court will take a 10-minute recess,” he said quickly. Votel, as it happened, did not have to ponder that question. The Jurgenses had a supportive letter from their pastor, Father Bernard Riser. June 6, 1995. They were used to that in White Bear Lake. Plenty of others, of course, see a hero in Jerry Sherwood. We are sorry to inform you, the letter read, that your son died on April 11, 1965. Sherwood became suspicious and persuaded authorities to investigate. Lois seemed distraught, but wasn’t crying. Harold and Lois Jurgens—a middle-class, churchgoing couple who had been unable to have children of their own—had adopted Sherwood’s son, Dennis, in 1962. Jurgens was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison. Carol Felix, the Washington County welfare department caseworker assigned to investigate the Kentucky children’s allegations, was allowed to read and copy something that most people had long lost sight of--the file on the Ramsey County 1965 juvenile court custody hearing. Suddenly others saw an amazing change in her. It also occurs among people with good education and stable financial and social backgrounds. After she was sent to a foster family in St. A good number of the 16 children would gather on Sundays at the parents’ house, along with assorted husbands, wives, cousins and grandchildren. No matter what plan or idea she came up with, the people at the Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre kept saying no. He died on January 13, 2000 at 78 years old. All of the psychological evaluations were favorable. Court Intervention It should be considered in any child who dies suddenly or where the nature of the injury is at variance with the story provided by the parents. He has read through the case file, the mountains of paper that document his own history. Judge Marsden and the prosecutors, in turn, see a hero in Robert. Then one night on April 11, 1965, 5-year-old Robert awoke to loud screams. “I sure hope I don’t get that case,” Elledge said, turning to her husband. There were relatives who had seen horrible bruises on his penis. The official cause of death was peritonitis due to perforation of the small bowel. When they were displayed in the courtroom, blown up into poster size, an unprepared Jerry Sherwood had to bolt from the courtroom. Kindle thought: A blind man could tell this was a homicide. As an example, when he was put somewhere – he stayed as told; but Dennis was always running around and never one to sit still. . Based on an extended study of specific cases, they had come to recognize a pattern. June Bols was married to Lois’ cousin. He simply marked it “deferred.” There was also a great deal of suspicion surrounding Jerome Zerwas, the brother of Lois Jurgens, and a police lieutenant in White Bear Lake. With trepidation, worrying how it would affect him, they showed him photos of Dennis’ badly battered body. With such children, horrible evidence of ongoing torture is easily found, as was the case with America’s Unknown Child. He also slipped near the bathroom and fell down the stairs. On June 5, after a sanity hearing, Judge Marsden sentenced Jurgens to up to 25 years in prison. Assistant County Atty. Tellingly, one of them indicated the child had been found covered in multiple bruises the day he died. There was no piece of evidence whatsoever that Dr. McGee relied on in changing the designation to homicide. The picture on the left that was used on a police poster was retouched by artists before it could be displayed. Dennis had also fallen down the basement stairs during the past week and struck the back of his head. He saw how he was left there when they took away the Kentucky children. Robert fit in well at the Jurgens household, as he learned from a young age not to get in his mother’s way or cause an undue mess that would send his mother into a rage. Elledge and Robinson sped to Stillwater. There is some suspicion that Lois Jurgens herself set the fire, given that it occurred while Robert was hospitalized, and that Lois had been known to threaten burning down the homes of several neighbors and family members who had spoken to authorities. The Ramsey County courthouse was built in the 1930s, and still features manually operated elevators. Column: Hollywood loves making excuses for bullies. Riding his tricycle in the basement soon after that, he remembered hearing several loud thuds, then seeing Dennis rolling fast, very fast, landing hard at the base of the stairs, on his stomach. The days following newspaper, “The St. Paul Dispatch” featured a story of Dennis’ death and some realized that the story and the facts didn’t match. In the box numbered 20, where the coroner was supposed to have written homicide or accident or natural, he had instead written the word “deferred.” The death certificate, Sherwood realized, was never completed. The coroner noted there was evidence of adult human bite marks on his penis and scarring all over his scrotum. The eventual trial of Lois Jurgens for Dennis' murder made national headlines and was the top news story for the state of Minnesota in 1987. There would be no confession. Lois had numerous complaints about Dennis. It wasn't until the 1980's that Jerry Sherwood began looking for Dennis. One of the boys later would spend hours on a psychiatrist’s couch, trying to block out the pain. Save toSuggest Edits. “We got to the point,” Kindle said later, “where we didn’t want to hear anymore.”. The doctor couldn’t comprehend anyone torturing a child to death. This included an extended stay at a psychiatric institution where electro-convulsive therapy was administered. However 1987 was a new age and child abuse had become a household expression and public concern. Sadly for Dennis Craig Puckett, he would become only too familiar with life as a Jurgens. Foley had also assigned to the case another assistant county attorney, Clayton Robinson Jr., 34. The Jurgenses’ number had been changed. “Look at these photos.”. An injured bowel couldn’t be from an accident. The police found one other pipeline to the past. Kindle and Meehan did not even have to track them all down. They admired the grace and strength with which he had risen above a tortured childhood. It didn’t take the jury long to deliberate over this one. This was not a town full of scared, ignorant confessors. . Whatever. A look at the top 25 high school baseball teams in the Southland. It is one of a few crimes that FBIagent Kenneth Lannin… She could not keep the baby. Although Lois was not charged with Dennis’s murder, the death caused sufficient suspicion for the authorities to remove Robert from the home. We just happened to be cleaning out old evidence lockers, the clerk said. Two families who did testify against Lois in 1965 told police Lois had haunted them for weeks afterward, calling them late at night, driving by their homes, threatening to burn their houses and kill their children. She felt like something was exploding inside her. Lois Jurgens trial for the boy’s murder made national headlines and was the top news story for the state of Minnesota in 1987. Many appreciatively see in the case vivid evidence of this country’s increased awareness since 1965 of child abuse--this above all is often cited as the chief theme of the story. Somehow Dennis provoked sadistic rages that resulted in horrible torture. In early 1981, she dialed the number. How long had the Jurgens`waited to call police was the question no one bothered to ask. Persecution Robert was passive and obedient, refusing candy or cookies offered by relatives, but Dennis was spirited, willing to take the cookies even if it meant trouble from Lois. Kindle and Meehan flew to Crookston on Oct. 17, 1986. The task at hand, after all, was to identify a murderer and put her in jail. Don’t talk to anyone, they were urging him. . But people didn’t have any idea what child abuse was. For her own reasons she had a pathological need for control over her environment and she did so by obsessively cleaning and tending to her home and garden. His head flopped uncontrollably. He remembered nothing of the morning of Dennis’ death, of talking to the Jurgenses or the police. Before Dennis, the house had been very quiet, and he had felt lonely and afraid, afraid of his mother. The Murder of Dennis Jurgens By the age of 23, she had borne four more children besides Dennis. They told me they would take my baby to people who could give him all that I couldn’t. “Why did this happen?” he said one morning recently from his home in Crookston. Lois was accused of murdering and beating her adopted son Dennis Jurgens in 1965 but wasn't convicted until 1987 and only spent 8 years of her sentence before … Robert Jurgens, as it happens, is still struggling for an answer, months after the trial ended. Fingernail marks behind his ears and a bite-mark on his genitals were still visible. Aside from the incident when Dennis was hospitalized with burns on his genitals, there were many other incidents of abuse demonstrating sexual sadism. Photos of Dennis’ battered body powerfully colored the trial. Dennis turned purple and had his oxygen supply cut off when Lois covered his mouth and nose with her hands. She could not keep her eyes off the photos. There were no more signs advertising Victory Gardens and “We Can Do IT!” slogans. Don’t be afraid, the friend told her. He just catered to Lois, and didn’t stand up when he should have. The children she had known as loving, affectionate and happy were now distrustful and disoriented. No until 1975 did Minnesota adopt legislation regarding the reporting of maltreatment of minors. We’re talking about people who just looked the other way. Loneliness a Driving Force in Sadism and Serial Murder. A common belief among witnesses, investigators and neighbors at the time of the murder was that he interfered with the investigation and destroyed incriminating evidence. Even the talkative neighbors proved to be no help. By her early teens, she was openly rebellious, defying her parents and skipping school. The justices there ruled that establishing a general pattern of child battering was sufficient to convict in a manslaughter case--the prosecutor did not need to link a specific act by the abuser to the precise cause of death. He had packed up his things and driven straight home. This he did even though the autopsy photos showed Dennis covered from head to toe in ugly bruises, his clenched fists and twisted facial expression suggesting he had died writhing in pain. Then Dennis had changed over time--he was gradually beaten into a sad, frightened, lonely child. This happened years before the battered-child syndrome was recognized, in a middle-class suburb, where people sensed something was wrong but thought it none of their business. No one but Lois Jurgens has ever been held to account. At a funeral for Lois’ sister, Barbara, Dennis and Robert recited the rosary for 20 minutes, without error. To the petition they had attached a voluminous exhibit--the whole 1965 record. Even with Jerry working tirelessly to bring Lois to justice, it took an 6 years for authorities to arrest Lois for Dennis’ murder. She told police she was left with the impression that she was not to get involved in why Robert was taken in the first place. During light moments, they wondered what hat she would appear in the next day. The Jurgenses’ annual salary was now $16,000. By its nature the trial ended up confining and localizing the horror in one person. Lois took to tying Dennis’ limbs to the bedposts to keep him in bed, and tied him to the toilet to force a bowel movement. There have not been any medical or scientific advancements that could have been employed by Dr. McGee. We must resist hindsight. Robert, she had asked, they’re not going to come and take me away, are they? She was afraid Dennis would “man-handle” him. A clerk was calling from the Washington County courthouse in Stillwater, 20 miles to the east. I did everything she said. I returned recently to our old house on Gardenette Drive, Robert said in answer to a question. Looking down, he realized that Robert was weeping, unable to continue. That the unflinching facts of the Jurgens case suggest something a good deal more disturbing--a community full of people aware of Lois and what she had done--seems to have evaded many involved in the case. This treatment, along with the exertion as he struggled, sickened Dennis to the point of vomiting, which further enraged Jurgens. . “There was hatred in both our looks, I must admit,” Sherwood said later. In spite of extensive physical evidence pointing towards severe abuse, the medical examiner did not classify the death under any of standard classifications of accident or murder. Eighteen years later, she discovers that her child is dead, and that he was possibly murdered by his religiously -strict adoptive mom. Her inability to conceive a child drove Lois further into madness although she wasn’t beyond comprehension or control over her actions. “It was eerie, walking into Dennis’ room. Lutheran Social Services, the private agency processing the adoption request, could see no problems. After calling the doctor, Lois and Harold kept going over the same developments. The relatives and family friends this time trooped willingly to the witness stand and told their stories. Kempe was chairman of the pediatrics department and his team included experts in pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and radiology. Right away, Jerry knew her little boy had been beaten to death. . . Naturally they couldn’t see it themselves. County Atty. Finally, at a time when Robert was hospitalized with pneumonia, his grandmother burned to death in a house fire. The prosecutors hugged each other. Use our filters to find the best type of hike by difficulty levels, length and type of view. . Bols told police that one afternoon in the early 1970s, long after the case was closed, Harold came by her house and they sat drinking coffee together. Harold had known what that meant. On Jan. 29, 1987, the Ramsey County grand jury indicted Lois Jurgens on one count of second-degree murder and two counts of third-degree murder. The White Bear Lake detectives looked at each other, then turned on their tape recorder. Jerry asks what cemetery Dennis is buried in and when she goes her other children and she go to try to find Dennis' grave. Those gatherings, in fact, were the only reason some of them ever saw Lois--many, it turned out, did not particularly like her. Jerry Sherwood, Dennis’ natural mother, was in the courtroom that day when they brought Lois Jurgens in. An inquest was held into Dennis’ death but strangely, even after testimony from family and neighbours about the treatment Dennis received from Lois, the judge declared that the Jurgens were “very honorable people of very good intentions.” No one in authority, it seemed, wanted to acknowledge that here was a small child who had been beaten to death by his own mother. If your lips are moving, the attorney told us, you’re saying too much. They chose not to face it. Where some might find fault with the welfare caseworker, the family doctor, the local priest, the police, the coroner, the lawyers and judges, the neighbors and relatives, others saw informants and prosecution witnesses. After the hearing, a Washington County judge removed all four Kentucky children from the adoptive home. Now, on the day before they were to pick the last juror and begin the trial, the prosecutors’ phone rang. The passive Harold ignored Lois` continual criticisms of the little boy and within months of Dennis’ arrival in the Jurgens’ household, he was rushed to the hospital with first and second-degree burns on his genitalia, which were reported and accepted as accidental. Cloud, she met Dennis McIntyre. She was placed into a foster home. She then forced the little boy to eat his vomit. In Justice League, Clark Kent comes back to life. It was storming out, thundering and lightning. That force was what killed Dennis Jurgens. During darker moments, they wondered whether she would ever allow any expression to cross her impassive, stoic face. There was no reason the coroner’s ruling should have been deferred. “Harold,” she said loudly, impatiently, “Harold, come here.”. Unable at first to find his grave site, she leafed through the cemetery’s record book. Why did this go on? I am changing this death certificate to homicide. The authorities didn’t look too closely and the process of adopting of Dennis was completed. That makes about as much sense as abusing the child for no reason whatsoever. The Kentucky children endured three years with the Jurgenses before the two older ones ran away in 1975. Superman stood as the last line of defense against the villain Doomsday, trading blows with the undying alien threat until, eventually, both fell dead at the other's side. It is not known specifically what caused the fatal blow, though the injury was later found to have been, beyond a reasonable doubt, inflicted by Lois Jurgens owing to evidence of her constant abuse. Melinda Elledge and Clayton Robinson were comfortable with the case they had to prosecute, but from the start they had been picking up intriguing references to a 1965 juvenile hearing. Dennis sure didn’t have all those bruises when he left here“. Mental Illness Say nothing. He was, as it happened, a policeman. Ironically, being the “good son“ didn`t mean Lois spared the rod with Robert or any of her young. I mean, those doctors knew that baby was killed. And as onlookers watched with fascination, Lois snapped at her husband. He couldn’t even imagine doing such things to a child. He was by now a venerable, gray-haired member of the local medical community, close to retirement after maintaining his White Bear Lake practice for 35 years. It had to be a deliberate blow to rupture like that. For Jerry Sherwood, her search for justice for her little boy had finally ended. Introduction Robert, the whole courtroom, sat in silence for a moment. Lois decided Robert and Dennis wouldn’t fit well together at all. . “Later on, Dennis didn’t do as much crying and he didn’t do any running away. There they would see Lois Jurgens and her children. If diagnosed, it frequently is not handled properly. He wanted to find out everything he could, but they never would talk things out with him about how Dennis died. . “This case was not harmed by the passage of time,” said Robinson, the assistant county attorney. The coroner and the police were investigating.”. He was glad it was coming up. The panel found Lois Jurgens guilty of third-degree murder--the Minnesota state description for killing someone without premeditation or intent. He had thought about it every day. As for her part, in her effort to make Dennis “right” Lois embarked on a series of sadistic punishments. “And there may be three or four other cases like this one. It was determined that Lois either punched him in the stomach very hard while holding him up against a wall or she kicked him while he was on a flat surface. As the new adopted children grew older, there were many firsthand histories (recounted to the media during the 1987 trial of Lois Jurgens) describing the severe abuse they suffered at their adoptive mother’s hands. . . When they showed him his old file, he knew right away something was wrong. He really needed to lose weight. Regardless, a complete investigation is necessary. It is not known specifically what caused the fatal blow, though the injury was later found to have been, beyond a reasonable doubt, inflicted by Lois Jurgens owing to evidence of her constant physical abuse. This is more understandable from a political and social viewpoint. So it wasn’t a real shock to me. Everyone offered him candy & cookies, but he refused. . Thomson’s closing argument offered an intriguing thought. He would cooperate, even though he knew that meant one day testifying against his adoptive mother. Lois’ explanation at the funeral was that the police had abused him after taking him away. The worst possible deaths are always that of children and this case is no different. The friend was outraged. The situation was so different back then. That had really annoyed her. Not only did she want to be a perfect suburban wife, she also wanted desperately to be a perfect suburban mother but alas, it wasn’t to be. Peterson stared at the picture of a badly bruised body, a body he had looked at in the flesh on Palm Sunday, 1965. He stated that “Dennis ate good. The case revealed an image of a community and human nature, after all, that was not the one many thought they knew--or even now want to know. It was against this backdrop that Dennis Jurgens’ natural mother, Jerry Ann Sherwood, appeared on the doorstep of the White Bear Lake Police Department in September of 1986, demanding that the case of her baby’s death be reopened. Why didn’t you ever get us out of this? California community college enrollment plummets, putting some campuses at risk, McManus: No shot, no service. She did not intend to back down this time. Dennis and I have been at it again, Lois had told Harold on the phone. In the middle of the night, Dennis had awakened, had to go potty. “I’ve made up my mind this is something that I want to do and I’ll try and recall and think of everything,” Robert told the policemen. If Dennis was murdered, without a doubt, without even a doubt, she killed him. Jerri attended his grave in White Bear Lake to say her good-byes. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. 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