The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-24
Spoiled Oldest Son Isl
 Murderer Of Parents
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be turned over to St. Louis county authorities today for prosecution.
 So incredible was his confession that police officials held him of until they could assemble a half dozen newspaper reporters to lis ten to it in addition to detectives and police stenographers. This. apparently, was move to allay any suspicion that 1t had been made under duress.
 Killed In Parking Lot
 Charles Nash, 59, supervisor of the St. Louis office of the Internal Revenue Bureau, and Eleanor Nash 49, were killed in 8 parking lot at midnight Monday night, their son confessed.
 Their bodies were found Tuesday night stuffed into the far fly auto mobile which had been abandoned at the roadside, eight miles north of Springfield, III. Their son had driven the car there, hoping to find way of disposing of the bodies. The car broke down, he lost his nerve. then made several bobbles which led to his arrest late yesterday. Within an hour he had admitted that he had driven the car, with the bodies in it, to Springfield and early today he admitted the slay- ings.
 Utterly calm, betraying no emo tion whatever, Nash dictated his story in smallroom of police head quarters crowded with potential witnesses against him. He began by saying that his parents had been disappointed with his way of living had been angered by the way in which he had wasted his fathers money on good times" and "wom- en-"
 Monday night he and his parents were riding in the family car and his father began demonstrating They parked the car in lot and began scuffiing in the car. Both got out and scuffied in back of the car
 Uses AK on Both
 Finally" he continued, T got thu ax from the back seat and hit hin several times on the head and Shoul. derS. Mother struck at me and hit her several times on the heaG and shoulders.
 T then placed his body in thu trunk of the car, seeing he was dead and threw her body into the bacl seat and drove back to the famil! apartment"
 He changed from his blood-Stain ed clothes into a blue suit and gra! topcoat, drove the car, with tn bodies still in 1t, downtown to ge a tank of gasoline, then across tn, Macarthur bridge into East St Louis, H., then eastward alonl Highway 66. His idea then was t. dispose of the bodies somewhere Il central Illinois.
 Twenty miles out of East St Louis, he threw his bloody clothe and his mothers purse out tn, window. Thirty miles farther on the left rear tire blew out and h. drove 20 miles on the rim.. Whel he stopped and changed tires, h had to push his fathers body asid to get at the spare in the trunk.
 Near the southern outskirts o Springfield, another tire hlew out There had been only one spare. H drove on the rim along a road by passing Springfield and eight mile north of the city. the car stalled.
 The rubber shortage thus arreste, his flight: his father, who wa meticulous in caring for his car would have replaced the worn tire weeks ago had he been able.
 Hitched Ride
 Nash locked the automobile am hitched a ride with a truck drive in Springfield. where he tried [ buy a tire from a filling station op orator. Failing, he hitch-hiked bacl to St. Louis, arriving about 3:30 2 m. Tuesday. Some three hours later 6 salesman. aware that the Nasl car had been parked at the roadsid all day, looked in and discovered th bodies.
 Early Wednesday, detectives wen 10 the Nash apartment and inform ed tho son that his parents haI been found murdered. They weF astonlshed by his unperturhed man ner. By noon, tho descriptions c the man who had hitched A rid and had tried Co buy q tire ha' been provided by James Mccue, % truck driver. and c. '. Sutton, th Qillng aiafsan ezernkeR n1&o1tlNo