They were independent of each other. Please enter your email and password to sign in. Lois Jurgens, 62, of Stillwater, chewed gum impassively as the jury announced its verdict, finding her guilty of third-degree murder in the 1965 death of her adopted son, Dennis. Soon the word spread from house to housethered been a death, the younger Jurgens boy had died. Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. Rekdahl decided to call on the Jurgenses. Harold and Lois Jurgens, a middle-class, churchgoing couple in picturesque White Bear Lake, Minnesota, had adopted Dennis and five other foster children.
There was also a great deal of suspicion surrounding Jerome Zerwas, the brother of Lois Jurgens, who was a police lieutenant in the city of White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Two or three couples signed written statements. A Mrs. Hansen called to report a lost wallet, which resulted in an officers checking a phone booth at Fourth and Washington streets, next to the Avalon Jewelers.There is a problem with your email/password.
The suspicious death of Dennis Jurgens wasnt properly investigated for 20 years.
In a town like White Bear Lake, apparently no one thought it problematic that the assistant police chief, Lt. Jerome Zerwas, was Lois Jurgens brother.