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Killer of Jewish Youth Indicted for Murder; Sent for Mental Tests

September 12, 1962
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Following a grand Jury indictment for the murder of Lewis Goldfein, 17-year-old Jewish youth, a county judge today ordered John C. Vinson, Jr., 17-year-old linked by police with anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism, committed to a state insane asylum for mental observation. Before the Goldfein murder, Vinson had a record of mental illness.

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