 Despite Glos's insistence that the pathologists had "[taken] the girls off Madison Street and put them into respectability", investigators connected to the case continued to insist that there had been no evidence of either girl being disreputable, or the recipient of extreme violence or sexual molestation prior to her death.After refusing to retract his statements, Glos was fired by Coroner Walter E. McCarron on February 15, although Glos would insist his firing had been politically motivated.Nonetheless, Glos would later be deputized by Sheriff Joseph D. Lohman—who concurred with Glos's conviction the girls had likely been beaten and tortured by a sexual predator who had lured them into his vehicle upon an innocent pretense—to continue to work on the case without pay.