Alice Hochhausler:1966, Cincinnati

   

   In 1966, Alice Hochhausler was so concerned about so many recent reports of attacks on and rapes of women that she was regularly giving her daughter, a nurse, a ride home from work. Even if it was late at night she didn’t want her daughter walking and taking the bus. 

   Alice was a mother of nine children. Her husband, Carl J. Hochhausler, was a local doctor. 

   On October 12th 1966, as her husband sleepily watched T.V., Alice left the house around 11 p.m. to go pick up her daughter, Beth. She was in her pajamas and robe. It was dark out already so no one would see her clothing. 

   Alice picked her daughter, Beth, up at Good Samaritan Hospital. The two noticed a car that seemed to be following them too closely. As Alice pulled over at Beth’s apartment the car pulled up behind them. Then it pulled around them and seemingly left. Alice watched her daughter enter her apartment safely and then continued home. Was that same suspicious car following Alice in the dark? 

  As Alice got out of her car and headed inside, someone hit her on the head. They strangled her with the belt to her bathrobe and raped her. 

  Her husband found her on the driveway in the morning after waking up and realizing that Alice had never come to bed. 

  I think this is the same rapist and murderer of Marian Wells(1970)and Sylvia Jones (1969). I think that man is Eugene William Gall Jr. 

  Gall had been dishonorably discharged from the military after his arrest for being a “peeping tom” in Virginia in July of 1964.  They sent him to a psychiatric hospital for a time before his discharge. This seems like more than just “peeping”. He returned home to Hillsboro, Ohio to his parents home. 

   On December 15th 1970 Gall was arrested for a series of rapes around Lima, Ohio. He lived in Middletown, Ohio then. He was convicted of 8 counts including rape, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon and armed robbery. He was sentenced from 10-30 years but was out by April 12th, 1977.

   He was next arrested in 1978 for the murder of Lisa Janson. He abducted her off the street in Cincinnati in 1978 and drove to Kentucky where he raped and murdered her. He then committed armed robbery and got in a shootout with police. Gall shot and killed a police officer. He is serving life in prison for those murders and the 1977 abduction, rape and murder of Beth Ann Mote from Dayton. 

   So, from his discharge in 1964 to December 15th 1970…what else did he do?  

   What was he up to from April 12th 1977 until his arrest in Kentucky on April 5th 1978? 

   I think he’s responsible for the series of 1965-1966 Cincinnati rapes/murders that included Emogene Harrington, Rose Winstel, Lois Dant, and Jeannette Messer. 

   I also think there are many more crimes that he committed. There’s no such thing as a part time serial killer. It’s all they think about. It’s their sole focus. Jobs and relationships are just a means to hide in plain sight in order to keep killing. 

   He drove around a lot.  I think armed robbery was one way that he financed his criminal habit. Armed robbery was one of his 1970 and 1978 convictions. Authorities should look at any cold case armed robbery/murders that fit his timeline. 

   In a 1978 article his mother mentions that he drove older people to doctors appointments. Sylvia Jones and Marian Wells lived fairly close to Good Samaritan Hospital. Imagine he has dropped off his elderly patient very early for lab tests or a long session of dialysis. Both Marian and Sylvia were killed in the morning hours. 

  Imagine him just driving around Cincinnati that night,  sitting and watching the hospital shift change.  He sees Beth get picked up by her Mom. He figures out that her Mom is driving young Beth home out of a concern for her safety. He hits upon the idea of attacking Alice, the mother. Maybe he is thinking it will be ironic. Maybe it amuses him. If it was Eugene William Gall Jr. it probably still amuses him to this day. 

   

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