Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. She believed that Lois Jurgens was accepting and embracing Dennis, and he seemed healthy and adjusted. Lois Jurgens had a reputation amongst her extended family and neighbors as an intense, angry woman with a short and volatile temper, but Dennis' arrival in her home provoked sadistic rages that targeted Dennis as he aged from one to three-and-a-half years of age. Lt. Clarence (Buzz) Harvey at first did not know what to make of the blonde 42-year-old woman who appeared at the front desk of this towns solitary police station on the morning of Sept. 18, 1986. In the early 1980s, Jerry Sherwood went looking for the newborn son she gave up for adoption 20 years prior. Though the name of the adoptive family was not given, many suspected that the story was about Lois Jurgens. What to make of Dennis Jurgens death now was passed into the hands of the Ramsey County coroner. . She died aged 87 on May 7, 2013. The only part of him that I saw was his chest and his face. A piano and bass fiddle occupied the living room. Certain neighbors and family members knew there were problems with Lois' treatment of Dennis but did nothing to prevent it. . The defense picked the doctor, and set parameters on what questions he could ask. The Jurgenses were delighted. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. He had read the early articles that by then had been published. He would later learn much more, would attend seminars and organize a county task force on the problem, but it cannot be said that Gingold knew nothing in 1965 about the battered-child syndrome. Lois Jurgens had a reputation amongst her extended family and neighbors as an intense, angry woman with a short and volatile temper, but Dennis' arrival in her home provoked sadistic rages that targeted Dennis as he aged from one to .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}3+12 years of age. Innhold. The specter of homicide hovered, but would not land in this hearing room in 1965. Harold and Lois Jurgensa middle-class, churchgoing couple who had been unable to have children of their ownhad adopted Sherwood's son, Dennis, in 1962. Lois Jurgens was convicted in May 1987 of murder (by abuse) in the death 22 years earlier of her adopted son, Dennis. She was born February 25, 1927 to Leslie and Margaret Stowell in Cass County IL.