"Thrill killers" indicted for 1st degree murder

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · August 26, 1954

Brooklyn's four teen-age "thrill-killers" stand impassively outside the grand jury chamber of Kings County courthouse before entering and being indicted for first degree murder by the jury today. Left to right for Jerome Lieberman, 17; Melvin Mittman, 17; Jack Koslow, 18; and Robert Trachtenberg, 15. Note that Koslow, the Nietzsche-reading "brains" of the group, and Mittman, the husky "muscle-man," both had their mustaches shaved off during their stay in jail.