The crime that created Superman: Did fatal robbery spawn Man of Steel?

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http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-08-25-superman-creators_N.htm

Interesting (and sad) story about the origin of Superman...

On the night of June 2, 1932, the world's first superhero was born — not on the mythical planet of Krypton but from a little-known tragedy on the streets of Cleveland.

It was Thursday night, about 8:10 p.m., and Mitchell Siegel, a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, was in his secondhand clothing store on the near East Side. According to a police report, three men entered. One asked to see a suit of clothes and walked out without paying for it. In the commotion of the robbery, Siegel, 60, fell to the ground and died.

The police report mentions a gunshot being heard. But the coroner, the police and Siegel's wife said Siegel died of a heart attack. No one was ever arrested.

What happened next has exploded some of the longest-held beliefs about the origins of Superman and the two teenage boys, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who invented America's best-known comic-book hero.

Past accounts suggest Siegel and Shuster, both 17, awkward and unpopular in high school, invented the meek Clark Kent and his powerful alter-ego, Superman, to attract girls and rise above their humble Cleveland beginnings.
 
What gets me is that the crooks were never arrested. I know that it happend alot and way too often but still.
 
That's why Jerry Siegel devoted his life to honing his intelligence and developing his physique, then one day as he contemplated the persona he was too adopt, reasoning that criminals were a cowardly and superstitious lot...

Oh wait. Oops.
 
Was it Meltzer or Chabon who was writing a book about this?

Meltzer. I remember now.
 
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What gets me is that the crooks were never arrested. I know that it happend alot and way too often but still.

Well, for this crime. If they were robbing second hand clothing stores they've probably done other things before and since. I'd expect they were caught at something somewhere along the line.
 

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