TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday. August I. 1JS7
Slaying of Two Young Brothers by Recently Released Psycopath Predicted by Officials
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.... . tiuLr. Mn ex-eonvict wlln
liked his new room, which was
decorated in pink and white, and
a curious mixture of religious
pictures and photographs of
movie actress Debra Paget. Near
his bed was a large autographed
Warden Grennan reported his
that -day, Ohlson straightened
the same place he got another
knife parole officers had taken
pool that afternoon, chatted
briefly with the Logan brothers,
returned to his room, took his
knife from beneath his pillow
and walked back to the park.
Police said Tie confessed forc
ing the boys into the woods,
stabbing them and tossing their
nude bodies on a rough funeral
pyre of wood and underbrush.
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two younit broth-r, si !lv after
relM frrm prlon. Uhv ai a
potential menare to sorirty, wn he
J'Vfn hl freedom? That quemion
naa touched off a rontroversv whlrh
.'?plorel in 011 following dii
patch. picture of Miss Paget, below it
a statue of Christ.
On a small table was a religi
ous statue he made in prison.
hobby there was carving such
figures.
Concealed Knife
Before he left the apartment
his bed, taking care to conceal
under, his pillow a long-bladed
knife with an ornate handle. He
had bought it at a pawn shop,
from, him three weeks before.
Ohlson later told police 4ie
strolled down to the field park
By CHINA ALTMAN
United Prei Correspondent
Brockton, Mass. iw For six
years Raymond F. Ohlson spent
his leisure in prison carving re
ligious statues. Fifty-one days
after his release for good be
havior he allegedly butchered
two young brothers.
The slaying of John Logan, 12
ana his brother Paul, 10, was
labelled "savage" and "fiend-
isn. JLater, a state correction
official examined a long police
me marked "Ohlson" and added
that it was "inevitable."
From across the state came a
storm of "I told you so's." Pris
on officials, psychiatrists and
state parole board members
agreed the 20-year-old sexual
psyhcopath "never should have
, been release." No one knew the
Logan brothers would be the
victims, but the crime had been
predicted by a dozen men.
Correction official, Dr. Ray
Gilbert said It was almost in
evitable that this person would
would commit such an act un
less aided or segregated from
society."
Shocking Record
Police Chief Joseph C. Wright
said Ohlson's record showed a
history of sadistic sexual attacks
on boys. When he was only 12,
he had beaten a 3-year-old child.
Two years' later he was sen-
tenced to 10 years in prison
for sexually assaulting and near
ly strangling a 12-year-old boy
within 100 yards of the Logan
brothers murder scene.
Dr. Ian Paley Rak, Concord
Prison psychiatrist, reported
Ohlson "presents a very grave
potential danger to the commu
nity." Rak said Ohlson has
"strong homosexual drives . . .
and is potentially dangerous on
the basis of past acts with sadis
tic sexual elements of a serious
nature to the lives of others."
A staff member of Metropoli
tan State Hospital said "extreme
caution should be used in per
mitting this boy in . the com
munity." From the father of the slain
children came the same question
that hundreds asked "How could
they ever have let him out?"
Warden Edward S. Grennan
had one answer: "We had to let
him out. His time was up."
Grennan said Ohlson was a
timid, withdrawn boy, but a
"model inmate." He had nearly
four years deducted from his
sentence for "good time."
State Correction Commission
er Arthur T. Lyman said "Theo
retically Ohlson could have been
committed indefinitely under the
sexual psychopathic law."
Confused Law
"However," he said, "this
whole law is extremely con
fused. It never even has been
activated." He explained that
the 1954 measure would become
effective only when a center for
sexual psychopaths was estab
lished. "Such a center has never been
built or designated," he said.
The parole board which twice
turned down Ohlson's petitions
for an early release, had rec
ommended to Plymouth County
District Attorney John R. Wheat
ley a year before his scheduled
discharge that Ohlson should be
indefinitely committed.
But both Wheatley and Dr.
Jack S. Ewalt, state commission
er of mental health, said there
was no legal basis under which
he could be confined, partly be
cause of the ineffectiveness of
the present law and partly be
cause Ohlson's deviation was
classed as neurotic rather than
psychotic.
"Confusion," said Lyman, was
part of the answer to why the
youth was discharged from Con
cord. So it was that Ohlson, a free
man, came to live with his moth
er, Dorothy Ohlson, here in a
three-room fourth floor apart
ment. Neighbors described the
two as "very quiet and pleas
ant." Mrs. Ohlson, a graying
blonde in her late 40s. divorced
her machinist husband 3Vi years
ago.
On the day of the Logan
brothers' murder. July 26, Ohl
son awakened in his room at
10 a.m. It was his day off from
his new job at the Stacey-Adams
Shoe Co.
Day of Rest
The slightly built youth dress
ed that day in his favorite
clothes, dungarees and an open
collar shirt." He stood before the
dresser mirror a long time,
combing his straight brown hair.
He planned to "loaf around,
maybe stay home all day," he
had told his mother. She often
told friends proudly that he
Nude Body Discovered
In Lake Washington
Seattle (IB The nude
body of a strawberry blonde was
recovered from Lake Washing
ten near Kenmore Wednesday
afternoon.
An autopsy determined death
was due to drowning and both
the sheriffs office and the cor
oner's office were trying to es
tablish her identity.
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