 In 1957, Kiefer, a Fort Wayne mechanic, murdered his wife, Pearl; he later claimed that he was sick of her criticizing his fishing and drinking habits.He bludgeoned her to death with a hammer before turning that hammer on his five-year-old daughter, Dorothy, when Dorothy approached him to try to break up the fight between her parents.After murdering them, Kiefer hacked their bodies with a knife and then left for Chicago with $3 from his wife's purse and some change from his daughter's piggy bank.