Reenactment of a young girl's death

Associated Press · February 11, 1958

Francis Michael Medaille, 15, stands with detectives on the roof of 13-story building in the Bronx tonight to reenact, police said, how he lured a seven-year-old girl to the roof and hurled her to her death on a concrete canopy 12 floors below. Police said Kathleen Heggan, who was lured to the roof for the promise of a dime and a lollipop. Then she was choked and hurled to her death. "I don't know why I did it," police quoted the boy as saying.