Post War
Shortly after the war ended, Olivia Josephine Oswald, a Filipino nurse, claimed to have married Wermuth December 7, 1941 on the rooftop of the Great Eastern hotel in Manila, though this was disputed by Wermuth. His divorce to Jean was finalized June 4, 1947 and the same day he married Patricia Steele, a 23-year-old parachutist from Denver, Colorado. He and Patricia adopted an 8 year old named David about 1956.
In 1948 Wermuth was elected Marshal of City Court in Wichita, Kansas. and subsequently arrested L. Ron Hubbard in 1951. He was sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado from 1957 to 1962. He resigned May 1, 1962 in lieu of prosecution on an embezzlement charge. As sheriff, Wermuth was also involved in the 1960 investigation of the kidnapping and murder of Adolph Coors III. In the early 1960s, it was reported that he was married Julia while Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado.
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