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Chapter 3
Search for a Killer
he bodies started showing up in the early 1970s. Somehard crimes to solve. Frequently, the victim has been times they were discovered in the darkness of early killed somewhere else. There is morning, sometimes in broad daylight. A driver would no crime scene to search for pull onto a freeway ramp or down an isolated road and see an clues. The connection between object. the victim and the suspect often Most of the bodies had been strangled. Some were sexually is fleeting and usually difficult mutilated, others were brutally called Long Beach police officer to reconstruct, said Long Beach violated with wooden objects, inBob Russell, then a vice-squad police Sgt. Robert Bell. cluding a tree limb. member. The community's Identifying the victims can be Some, strangely, were sense of futility was reflected in difficult, particularly when they shoeless. One, as if fate had crulocal newspaper headlines : are stripped of clothing and or elly mocked him, had a rabbit's"BUTCHERY SLAYINGS UNwallets. One of the cases cited in foot charm fastened to the belt SOLVED," "CLUES SCARCE Troup's memo described a vicloop of his trousers. IN GRISLY SLAYINGS." tim found in the area of HuntingA January' 1975 memo from Orange County Sheriff's Deton Beach known as Airplane George Troup, an investigator partment spokesman Lt. RichHill in the early hours of April with the Orange County District ard Olson said body dumps, as Attorney's Office, to James P l e a s e s e e CHAPTER 3/C7 they are called by the police, are Enright, chief deputy district attorney, outlined a pattern: During the previous two years, over an area that included Orange, Los Angeles, Imperial and San Bernardino counties, law-enforcement agencies had spotted similarities linking 11 homicides involving white males in their For cancer patients and their families . . . teens or early 20s. Whoever had Here in Orange County beginning May 16, 1987 killed the victims, Troup noted, usually left them "in a location For information and registration call: easily discovered by police or motorists." It was almost as if the authorities were being (714)665-5060 or (213)459-4434 Dr. Carl Simonton taunted. I Various law-enforcement agencies had interviewed hundreds of witnesses and interrogated several suspects, according to Troup's memo. With the help of a Dentist They had held meetings, pooled T H E WEIGHT GUARD DENTAL APPLIANCE resources and appealed to the * Constantly btodu tempting loads * Allows you to s m k freely public for help. * Slows down eating, stops tinges Can only be removed by the dentist Police determined some of the * Can not be seen I * others * S l w e s UP sett control and willpower victims were homosexual, and If vo bavt tnuMe sUying witk tight to program, tkr tigkt guris began making the rounds of gay CID give you the help yon oeed to lose lb. h;t, yet Ihey ill M< he stei hy bars in the area. They showed others. photos of the victims, first a Gateweigb Weight Loss Center has a complete program mug shot, then a corpse, in search of leads. In the gay community, "Peo2555 E. C H A P M A N A V E S I I T E 302 ple were pretty worried," re-
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