Chapter 37 Section 12

The Levinson family lived two miles away at 40th Street and Lake Park Road, and his father was a well-known lawyer. 9-year-old Jonny and Roy's youngest son, Tommy, are in the same fourth grade. Not long ago, they went to Roy's house to attend Tommy's birthday party.Richard guessed that Johnny might be willing to be driven home by someone, so he bought two packs of bubble gum in the small store. After meeting Richard with the binoculars, Nathan drove to the open space on 49th Street, found a place with a good view on Ingleside Road, and stopped to watch Johnnies play ball through the binoculars, while trying to get out from the children. Pick other possible abductees.But in the end it was still felt that Jonny Levinson was the most ideal of them all.

At about 4:30, the children were still playing baseball, and Jonny and several children left together and never came back.The two criminals waited for a while and felt that something was wrong, so they drove to find Johnny.They walked around the neighborhood and drove to Levinson's house, but there was no sign of Jonny anywhere. It was just after 5 o'clock at the moment, and it was almost time for dinner.If Nathan and Richard can't find a kidnapping target as soon as possible and start as soon as possible, they can only wait until the next time.And, God knows if there will be a next time.The two men were driving—one of the great mysteries of the case is that no one knows for sure which of them has been driving since—going south on Greenwood Road, turning right at 49th Street to Love Lisi Road, turn right again.At this time, the target appeared.

Confessions of Richard Lowe: We catch a glimpse of Bobby Fanks walking south on the pavement of Alice Road West.He had just crossed 48th Street when we passed him.We also turned onto 48th Street and turned the car around. Confessions of Nathan Leop: When we returned to Ellis Road, we found that Bobby had distanced himself from the pedestrian behind him and was approaching 49th Street.There we tricked him into the car. The pedestrian behind Bobby Fanks is 9-year-old Erwin Hartmann.Prior to this, his name had been brought up and discussed by the two criminals more than once.Either they hadn't recognized him in their haste, or they thought Bobby was a better hostage than Erwin.In short, the two perpetrators drove past the little boy who was looking at the tulips on the side of the road, and they couldn't wait to move towards their victim.

Confessions of Nathan Leop: Richard knew Bobby and asked him to come over. ...Bobby came to the car and Richard introduced us both.Richard said he wanted to ask him a favor. …Richard said, come in the car, I want to ask you about the tennis racket.After he came up, I drove south on Ellis Road to 50th Street.Richard asked Bobby, would you like to hang out with us for a while?Bobby said no problem.As soon as the car turned the corner at 50th Street, Richard covered Bobby's mouth with his left hand, took the chisel with his right hand, and poked Bobby's head several times. Confessions of Richard Lowe:

I was driving and Nathan was in the back.I went south on Ellis Road, parallel to Bobby.I pulled up and opened the door and told Bobby I could take him home, and Bobby said no.He was about to walk away, and I said, I want to ask you about the tennis racket, and he came up.I turned east on 50th Street when Nathan covered Bobby's mouth and punched him on the head with his fist. In order to support his statement, Richard added a few words: "Our original plan was to suffocate him with ether. This idea came up with Nathan because he had knowledge and experience in this field. He said It's quick and easy, and it doesn't leave blood or whatever.  … I don't know this chemistry shit, but he does, doesn't he? So you see, he's the one sitting in the backseat and acting as the executioner." However, the murderers eventually gave up using ether and used a rope stranglehold instead.

In the dark blue Willie Cavalier, Bobby Fankerston was bloodied and unconscious or dead.He was dragged to the back of the car and had a large ball of cloth stuffed into his mouth "up to his throat".Because Bobby was motionless, the criminals did not strangle him with a rope as planned in advance.Bobby was laid on the floor, and Nathan or Richard continued driving south.They crossed the state line and arrived in Indiana, stopped in a deserted place, and began to strip Bobby's clothes, so as not to leave any identifying evidence on the body.Before leaving there, the two criminals scattered some of Bobby's clothes, shoes, belts, etc., one by one, in the surrounding wilderness.

It was still early at this time, or rather, night had not yet fallen.Nathan and Richard drive around aimlessly while killing time.In between, they stopped to buy some hot dogs for dinner. It wasn't until it was dark that the two of them drove to the shore of Wolf Lake along a muddy path with potholes.According to the pre-plan, the corpse was wrapped in a blanket and moved to the culvert.Then the blanket was removed, and hydrochloric acid was poured on the face of the deceased.Nathan put on his ill-fitting rubber boots and jumped into the ditch.The two criminals worked together to stuff the body into the culvert.Then, he washed himself with the ditch water, put all his belongings in a blanket and wrapped them up, and left the scene calmly.

At one point during the process, likely before jumping into the ditch, Nathan recalled, he took off his jacket and put it on the ground.When cleaning up the scene later, Richard picked up his coat upside down.Probably at that moment, the glasses fell out of the left breast pocket.But Richard said it wasn't him, it was Nathan who picked up the coat himself. On the way back, they stopped at a store and Nathan needed to call home.Mr Leop told his son that his aunt and uncle were waiting at home for him to drive them home, and Nathan promised to be there as soon as possible.At the next store, the two found the address of the Fanks family from the telephone yellow pages and immediately copied it on the envelope of the ransom demand letter.Later, when I passed by a mailbox, I dropped the envelope marked "Special Mail" and fully postage into it.Then, according to the phone number copied from the yellow pages, he called Fan Kesi's house from a public phone booth.This is the phone call Mrs. Fankers Flora received that made her faint.