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[[Image:BartelsEdward.jpg|left|thumb|100px|Edward Bartels]]BARTELS, Edward. (Dubuque, IA-East Dubuque, IL, July 11, 1960). Physician. The cold-blooded murder of the Dubuque physician and father led to the execution of [[FEGUER, Victor Harry|Victor Harry FEGUER]]. | [[Image:BartelsEdward.jpg|left|thumb|100px|Edward Bartels]]BARTELS, Edward. (Dubuque, IA-East Dubuque, IL, July 11, 1960). Physician. The cold-blooded murder of the Dubuque physician and father led to the execution of [[FEGUER, Victor Harry|Victor Harry FEGUER]]. | ||
Bartels was tricked into answering a call for help. Feguer, seeking a general practitioner who would be likely to carry morphine or demerol, chose his victim from the phone book. Bartel's name had been the first listed. Feguer's appeal was rejected by Harry Blackmun, then a federal appeals court judge in St. Louis and later a member of the United States Supreme Court. His appeal was also denied by President John F. Kennedy. | Bartels was tricked into answering a call for help. Feguer, seeking a general practitioner who would be likely to carry morphine or demerol, chose his victim from the phone book. Bartel's name had been the first listed. Feguer drove Bartels into Illinois where he shot the doctor and stole his car. It was in attempting to sell the car that Feguer was captured. | ||
Feguer's appeal was rejected by Harry Blackmun, then a federal appeals court judge in St. Louis and later a member of the United States Supreme Court. His appeal was also denied by President John F. Kennedy. | |||
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Revision as of 16:51, 9 February 2010
BARTELS, Edward. (Dubuque, IA-East Dubuque, IL, July 11, 1960). Physician. The cold-blooded murder of the Dubuque physician and father led to the execution of Victor Harry FEGUER.
Bartels was tricked into answering a call for help. Feguer, seeking a general practitioner who would be likely to carry morphine or demerol, chose his victim from the phone book. Bartel's name had been the first listed. Feguer drove Bartels into Illinois where he shot the doctor and stole his car. It was in attempting to sell the car that Feguer was captured.
Feguer's appeal was rejected by Harry Blackmun, then a federal appeals court judge in St. Louis and later a member of the United States Supreme Court. His appeal was also denied by President John F. Kennedy.