Police corruption

Sheriff Joe Lohman

Schuessler read the booklet and was stunned by what he learned. He then made the mistake of going to the police and demanding that the possible ritual murder angle in his sons' death be investigated.

The Cook County Sheriff of the time was a Jew named Joseph Lohman, and he immediately placed Mr. Schuessler under arrest on suspicion of killing his own children.

Lohman appointed a Jewish detective, Harry Gloss, to investigate both murders.

Harry Gloss

A Jewish deputy named Horowitz was sent to the Schuessler home with a party of men; having ransacked the house looking for " evidence", Horowitz then placed Mrs. Eleanor Schuessler and her family under virtual house arrest, forbidding them to leave the house or speak with anyone on the phone lest they " spread rumors about the Jews."

Detectives say " Evidence was destroyed"

The two Chicago detectives in charge of the case, Irish lieutenants James Lynch and James McMahon, later complained angrily that Lohman's Cook County investigators had destroyed evidence, threatened and tampered with witnesses, and generally impeded their efforts to solve the case at every turn.

Anton Schuessler, Sr. took a lie detector test which completely cleared him, as well as proving that he had an ironclad alibi for the murders.