On December 23, 1934, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 12-year-old white male Robert Dempsey was tragically killed in a mass murder-suicide orchestrated by his aunt, Kathryn Dempsey Schoch. The incident occurred at the Dempsey family home, where Robert lived with his parents, Walter and Clara Dempsey, and his siblings: Walter Jr., 10; Thomas, 8; and David, 15 months. Kathryn Schoch, a 40-year-old trained nurse from Dunkirk, New York, had recently suffered the loss of her own seven-year-old son, whic
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