Published: April 4, 1982

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 3— A judge who has waged a personal campaign to find the murderer of a 9-year-old girl said Friday he had received dozens of phone calls providing information about the killing.

Judge Don Clough of Greene County Circuit Court warned the killer of Shirley Jane Rose in a letter sent to a Springfield newspaper Thursday that he was ”personally going to see that you are sent to the gas chamber” and said the execution date would be ”the happiest day of my life.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/04/us/missouri-judge-conducting-hunt-for-murderer-of-girl-9.html