Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-22
YOUNG WIFE SLAIN;
NUDE BODY FOUND
Chicago Woman Discovered
on Operating Table in Home
of M0ther-in.LaW.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. November 22.-Earl Wyne-
koop, 81. was reported today to have
been in Chicago not more than few
hours before and perhaps at the same
time his pretty wife Rhea. %, was killed
with a pistol bullet through her heart
and left nude on an operating table in
the home OF his mother, DR.. Alice
Wynekoop.
DR.. Wynekoop widow of DR.. Frank
Wynekoop. sister-in law of two other
doctors and mother OF Dr.. Catherine
Wynekoop. had said her son was on his
way West when she reported the Staying
last night.
A further revelation in the bizarre
murder mystery came today in testi-
mony at the inquest that Rhea had been
stupefed with ChlOrofOrm before she
was shot
Il found a cloth over the victims
mouth testified Police Lieut.. Charles
Peterson. There was no chloroform on
the cloth, but there was bottle of it
nearby"
That the husband had been in Chi
cago yesterday was asserted by his
mother.
Mrs. Wynekoop, talented violinist and
artist, was found dead last night in the
basement of the 16-room home of her
mother-in-laW
Pistol Found Nearby.
There was a single bullet wound be-
meath her left shoulderblade, fired
through the heart Nearby lay a pistol
from which three shots had been fired.
The young Womans clothing was piled
neatly on chair.
To make the Wierd murder even more
uncanny, there were many of the ele-
ments of detective mystery thriller
a mysterious telegram, passionately
sharp fingernails on the victims face,
reports that drug addict had frequent
ed the home to do odd jobs.
The young husband first was reported
en- route to Arizona with a friend, STAN
ley Young, to take photographs of the
Grand Canyon. An hour before the
body was found, face downward and
wrapped in a blanket, Dr. Wynekoop
received a telegram from Peoria, ILL.,,
that read:
Stanley has domestic difficulties
Starting home tonight" 1t was signed
with the initial e"
Dr. Wynekoop said shortly before
the inquest that her son had lived
since October 10 in the Chicago suburb
of Beverly Hills, that he had communi-
Gated with his wife only by telephone,
and that she believed he had left yes
terday for Arizona.
Police at Peoria learned the message
had been telephoned to the telegraph
company by a man who identified him
self only as being Ion my way to Kan
sas City" No one had left Peoria by
train or motor bus for that destination.
Chicago police said they had no rea-
son to suspect Wynekoop, but they be-
lieved he could clarity the telegram
and note, found among the victims
possessions, which read:
"Precious-I'm choked. You are gone
YOU have called me up-and after 10
minutes or so I called and called. No
answer. Maybe you are sleeping. You
need to be, but I want to hear your
voice again tonight would give any,
thing I have to spend-to spend an
hour in real talk with you tonight
and I can not-good night" The let
ter was written in feminine hand and
dated Sunday night"
Three Discharged Bullets.
As police reconstructed the Staying
and events leading up to it, Mrs. Wyne-
koop left her mothe-tn-law's home
for an hour yesterday afternoon on
reighborhood shopping tour. She re-
turned at 3 pm. and met DR.. Wyne-
koop leaving the home.
DR.. Wynekoop returned in the early
evening, ate dinner with Mrs. Vera
Duncan, a boarder in the home. Not
until about pm. did she have occa-
sion to enter her basement Office and
consultation rooms. It was then she
found the body.
The pistol was identified as DR..
Wynekoops. One bullet had been fired
L. Oh eatI A
second killed the young wife. The third
discharged bullet was unexplained.
Dr. Wynekoop testified at the in
quest that she knew nothing of any life
insurance on her daughter-in -law, but
Coroner Frank j. Walsh said he had
been informed that DR.. Wynekoop re-
Gently obtained $4,000 policy from the
New York Life Insurance Co. on the
young woman.
The inquest was adjourned to give
the police more time to investigate.
Aside from the fact that Mrs. Wyne-
koop was almost entirely stripped OF
her clothes, police said they found no
evidences of struggle and admitted
that they we're at loss for clues.
in fact, the killer had evidently taken
pains to handle the body as carefully
as possible, as it was covered with a
ends and the head, face down, rested on
two small pillows.