Prof. and Mrs. Stanley Spector

[ca. September 1959]

Ship officer faces quiz in slaying. A Dutch officer who told slain Lynn Kauffman she gave him 'naughty ideas' today faced intensive interrogation as police pieced together the events preceding the mysterious death of the lovely young heiress in Boston Harbor. One of 20 Dutch officers aboard the freighter Utrecht from which Lynn vanished Friday night, the officer was recalled for a second session of questioning when he was quoted as having told Lynn: 'You give me naughty ideas. Be careful.' The remark was made aboard ship sometime before the freighter docked in Boston, just before heading for New York on a run from Singapore. The remark was recalled by Mrs. Juanita Spector, wife of Dr. Stanley Spector, the Far East affairs professor for whom Lynn was a research assistant. Mrs. Spector and the three Spector children, along with a 15-year-old Chinese boy the family will adopt, traveled with Lynn from Singapore where the professor finished his work on a research fellowship. He flew home to St. Louis several days before the Utrecht arrived. Mrs. Spector, who underwent lengthy grilling by police, was at a loss to pinpoint the sketchy timetable of events immediately preceding the girl's disappearance. She guessed the remark on to Spector. The professor told Police Capt. Joseph B. Fallon, head of the Boston's homicide squad, who is heading the probe along with Brooklyn detectives. The Utrecht is docked at Brooklyn. The remark provides police with the best motive yet in the sadistic slaying of the 23-year-old divorcee. Lynn was beaten brutally before her unconscious body was tossed into Boston Harbor to drown. Med. Exam. Michael A. Luongo, who ruled out suicide in the death, said she had not been criminally assaulted. Police are trying to get an accurate time on the exact time when Mrs. Spector and a Chinese steward summoned her to dinner. Locked in her cabin, she pleaded a migraine headache as her reason for skipping dinner. Both Mrs. Spector and the steward put the time at 7 p.m. but Boston harbor police believe the girl's body must have been thrown off the freighter several minutes before then in order for it to be washed up on Spectacle Island the next day. They figure the girl's body could have hit the harbor and ended up where it did.