A Close Call For Claudia

December, 1978

Last February, police in Columbus, Ohio, found the bodies of 52-year-old night-club owner Robert McCann, his 26-year-old girlfriend and his 77-year-old mother shot to death in an apparent robbery by home invasion. The killings were particularly brutal: The victims had been shot many times and beaten or stripped, or both. Four weeks later, Claudia Yasko, a 27-year-old night-club waitress, presented herself to police, waived her right to have an attorney present and confessed to the killings, nami...