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Frank Avila Jr interviews former Detective James Jack about his book Three boys Missing. It all began on a rainy day in October 1955... Robert Peterson and Anton and John Schuessler left home one afternoon to see a Disney movie. Two days later their nude and brutalized bodies were found in Robinson's Woods Forest Preserve. This firsthand account details the tragedy of this horrible crime, which took 40 years to solve. While the story is heartbreaking, it is an important one to tell. Imagine this: a man who authorities now believe molested over 2000 boys went undetected for more than four decades. Protected by organized crime, an animal preyed on innocent children and never came to the attention of law enforcement because he was not a "known sex offender." This is just one of many interesting facts and nuisances to this story that make its lessons learned so important, and this moving true crime historical, yet timely. Kenneth Hansen, convicted of the triple murder, died Wednesday, September 12, 2007 in the Pontiac Correctional Center in Pontiac, Ill. My name is James (Jimmy) Jack. I am your narrator and one of the few living investigators of the Peterson-Schuessler murder case. Although this crime occurred more than fifty years ago, the night Robert's dad, Malcolm Peterson, came to us for help still haunts me and is vivid in my memory. In those days, we didn't have a name for pedophilia or homosexuality, for that matter. And we had no idea of the number of crimes being ...