Slaughter on North Lasalle

On December 1, 1971, the bodies of Robert Gierse, James Barker, and Robert Hinson were found in their blood-spattered Indianapolis home. All three had reputations as prodigious womanizers, hard-drinking bar fighters, and unscrupulous businessmen--the kind of men with more enemies than friends.

When detectives searched the home and discovered an address book used as a sex contest scorecard, their ne...