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‘THEIR OPINION
May [we pruse and add an opin.
ton? Tye afways biked myster
dlr series, ete both ftion
About 40" years ago, T began buying
detective magazines. For a long time
Luh a ander, then TJerned two
things: (1) one cat afrd to buy all
ef them und, (2) one runs into dpi
fate stries Tent down to 1nsi0e nd
Joost Peeu exclusively. 1 Tike the way
Jour stories are writen and the fn At
The Fink that tells the real end. A dot
Is left out of rine stories inthe new
Papers fat your magazines give the de
fake Now thot Tam a ahutin, Taube
seribe to loth of your magazines 50
thew come fn the mal 2
New for the opinion. Te just ne
ished! reading’ The Bloter (January
Prox Pos, 1976) and 1 noticed le.
fers about old erimes. 1 too, like up to
dite stones printed while they're stil
fresh to oor minds but, Tle the old
stores, too. One lelter siggested 2 thd
tmagazine for old stores only. Here's
‘my opiaion on that. Are there enough
1 ew sh as yo pit 19 esp
uch a magazine going. indefinitely?
Tm sure there are same gbod od stories
tat weve ether forgotten, never knew
the true facts or never beard of. Foe
spat, a story ou an old crime put in
‘whenever you sce Bt fs a ne idea, We
Fear i sid that there wasnt so much
ste way hack when, Tn. along.
years and’ erime does seem to be get
rg worse but there har always been
crime. It hogan in the Garden of Eden
So give us an old story now and theo,
“M1 Tobin, Detrot, Mich
You ask the public opinion in ee
printing some of the old. detective
Mori, Sure would love lo red again
i bout Card Ann Fugite ond. Chavis
Stikwther (Boy One Murder Binz,
May enor ract, 1998) since Can
Fuga tying to ean her freedom fn
1976. Hose quick people forget wat
{hill seoker she was, Even youn, she
new er wrongs. She dda eae i
her own mother lived or died [She
seis] in dcp sith all those ings of
11 people. Yes, let the public read
about her again. She i where she be
Tongs: Let her stay thee. f miyself
learned in, Sunday schol atthe age
Fe, what the corpoanudments were.
THE BUOTTER
ther and have alwoys believed her to be
faulty as she kept right with C, Stark
Srether into one mess then a willing
fhocomptice to the next one, as a thell
feckers [She is] just as guilty as he
tyas, Come on nov, and let the public
read this story again, This int so Tong,
figo, but many of our teenagers can
ead this also... If the parole board
thinks C. Fugate needs a parole, pre
Sent them a copy of what she was in
elved in, In one, part of that story
they took Carole King into a cave and
Cant Fugate told Starkweather, this
fone ic mine. She handled the gin he
Tuad. Sock that story to the public.
“B, Riser, Fairborn, Ohio
‘A GROSS CRIME
Tread the story He Had Sex On His
Mind and Death in His Hand (De-
tember rH0NT Face, 1975). How could
2 Many Zexz
Slain white doing her job
such a penon gin plz pace and
de soch's ros thing? Even after she
wv fom dead, he did exen com.
tnt hirwelf to police. It was fom Jan-
thy 3 1972, 10 August 29 1975 [ont
he wae cul jst dont see ow it
Could fave ro. that. long, without
{esto me Ca Me he dd
was doing her jb and beens of
The was found dead
~Allen Whitcot, Cincinnati, Ohio
-AvIND GESTURE
It sas a hearuwarming touch to the
fend of that tagie story They Hed to
Be Animals To Do This To Her (Jan.
uy rnoser race, 1976) when the
informant, who brake the ease, asked
that the 5000 reward ho donated to
the vicin’s two chdren. 15 nice to
iow that peole stil cae about others
ai ot tnly for. themselves, Some
people woul have kept the tone for
Fhinelf But the generos person gave
itto dildren who certainly el pect
Not only dd this Individual get foe |
Colved in the eae but a number of |
Cher citizens ia that town apt ine
Solved, Lsuess fear prompted. people
to lp police in apprehending the 9
responsible for such a beta and sense-
Ue urn And ely for Wat cme |
munity police arested two suspects
Tevet havo commited feces
=D. MeDoneld, Augista, Co
TOO CRUEL TO IMAGINE ;
T think the story They Ran Oper i
Bobbie Again and Again (February ,
most pace, 1976) was the most i
sadistic and vile crime T have over i
read. The ones who did it had be
fuel aid inhuman, How those gle ;
survived as long as they did after being t
run over repeatedly by a car is a mys '
tery to me. One girl died after an | '
agonizing 12 hours. The surviving gil
finally was able to Bag someone dawn
fn the road to help her. If it wast for
that man and his daughter she prob-
ably would have died also. But she
lived and was able to give police a
description of the assailants, The whole
attack was beyond any comprehension
of cruelty, Bach time they ran over the
inl they checked her pulte to see if
she were stil alive, Tonly hope those
responsible get what they deserve.
Valerie Sloan, St.Petersburg, Fla.
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innocent victim
1s always the innoeat who de
the teu of some eran acta in !
the sory The Gay's Cora Cun an a
School Bus Full of ‘Kids (Rebnacy
row vice, 1976), After fobbing &
bank, their fein the sect |
with offers bot pursuit Findly
seeing his chance of escape-a school ;
‘bus full of kids—he forced the driver to
take him away, Those poor children ‘
‘must have been terrified with the bus
Speeding at 80 mi an hour Ta ast
ation like that police had to proceed
‘ith th utmost eaten. They flowed
the bs, et they alt tun te
funman’s fre for fear of sting one
the ds When the bus wet Sapo
and a shootout ensued, one ite boy
was left dead the victim of a mice
act. People who take hostages to barter
theis way to. freedom, to mee
owas, He wed thove elds oo
shields not caring who got killed, only
4 log. as he got away from alice
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With all indiations poking toward
sw acauaintance of friend as Jadean’s
Shyer, Syracnee homiide investigators
iregin’ probing the murdered “gis
Insekgroind, Thero was no more prom
iting place to start than Norfolk
dean, many. of ber high school
classmates agreed, was tho fest Nor
folkian to achieve any smajee publicity
futside the borders of the tny com:
tunity since Willam P. Rogers was
Appninted Secretary of State
"I don’t think there was anything
special about hee,” said a local sher
HH deputy, “She was just one of the
Kids weld soe hanging around.”
Tn the 1974 ediion of The Key-
sioner, the Nerwood:Norfolk Senior
High "School yearbook, investigators
fouuil a photo of the ‘naurdered gi
above the caption; “Can You Ever
Think of Any Better W
“They called her ‘J’ in school” a
lacmate said. “She was real small,
tiny you could even say. She couldn't
have stood more thin Bre-footwo oF
weighed 110, but there was something
ynamie about he
She didn't gradoate with the rest
‘of um" the girl went on, "She dropped
‘out Isher Binal semester, J think it had
Something to do with 2 course she
Failed, but 1 could be wrong
"When she left school, she droped
fot of sight, I dida' have any idea of
‘what became of her until T read about
what heppened.”
“T can understand why she was in
such # hurry to go to Syracuse,” si
ther of the gels acquaintances sald
Finding 2 ob arom ers net to
ponte when times are bad ike
the, Ard living bee's ot too exciting
ther: Most of the Bids aren inter
‘Sted in anything but hockey
Sh loc of ule cope fom big fam
alee that cart afford to send them (9
College she sid, “even if they wanted
to go So they go dawn to Syracuse
tied tay to ind job, I they se them
ities a dead en here, aaybe the
cliy scams etclting to them, They £60
it tevin, you knw:
“east blane the city,” one of the
rmurdefed. Ts relatives told news
met“ could ae happened tn any
fay with maniac. She bad her foto
ing ard thaty where she went toe
“Sho was the gayest lite thing,” the
live and loved life
Jay" hd grown up on a farm be-
tween Notfoll. and the. seighboring
hamlet of Raymondville, “There ws
tothing that child” would sot do_ for
fer fois" the relaive added,“
aiveaylped ith things around the
Three yours caller, she explained
when Jadean was 16, an lness had
prevented her father’ fom woeking.
‘The gil had responded by Boing em
ployment atm Masons, N.Ye noring
“That litle il gota job and kept
wp in school too" the relative ro
Cilled. “She wed to come home fom
School, get cleaned ‘up and then T
Wrould drive her Into work every day
They all loved her there and she loved
When Jadean imoved to. Syracuse
she kept touch with her fay by
‘Sgt. Sardino, Inv. Heany, Chief Sardino and Dep. Chief Dil
(L to R) all worked probe. cee en
We Imew where she
verti often
s the
ha what she a doing
seo a
1 Kanw one thing” she continued
“whoever tal her up and billed her
Gilat dot stone: Sho wis ty, bat
She as wy ad srapoy
“title Jay never Intentionally hurt
a soul in her Ie, That's why 1 cat
foerstand why anyone wuld want
hurt het, She loved life foo much
Tn Syracuse, homicide investigators
spoke withthe young weman who had
titen Tad Do he job atthe
iverpoot Ramada Ton
"We were just about inseparable.”
she sald "SingeT Yad only Tearners
Permit and Jay had a license, we were
niwaye togather, We went to bingo,
Played cards at home, watched TV,
Tsteed to records and went shopping
on Fridays. Sho even walched my hi
iand's store when he couldnt be there.
GYYE worked the same shit atthe
ots, ery eran Tey
wosld walkover fe fem he lace
nd et the cote for ur And thon
iigatcreg iets
"Wo wre very cane” she aed
“Jay even told me about her dates.”
Would you mind tellng us about
then” a mil detective asked
ate on Monday evening, Osaber
after Itrviewing ts any persons
a they cold Bd whe lew he
dere gl Syracuse poe announced
tbat hey had ued a pickup oer
Beara John A Poy, Jt of Shon
tard Stet, The betel, dart aed
Young man, wibeses reported,
tren one of Jaden Bupa lat bo
friends. eae ee
"Weve got some cicumstani ey
idence linking Pry tothe womae
Sergeant Frank Satna of the Selec
tive Enforcement Unit od a epetee
“There song poaily he say be
in possesion of Be Bedlber hens
Sones nthe homie
We believe Peny still aroma
town." theives edn Se
he “is a pretty good suspect.” .
“Tacday night, Syrico pice ob
tained a wares charging Pony att
second “degree muri, ‘The sated
tan wis desorbed 8 5 fs 9 hes
ta; 143 pounds, wilh brews Rab ae
2 lg mustache, Sought ai wa
Yeacald Thomas Cour, a aed be
Heed tring with
The flowing day, 2 finer mae
for Judean Dopus Was elebrated at
Si Haynonds Chachi Rayman
vil, aboot two males nth of Nor
folk, Two state policemen es
and. at the eervices watching. the
Psion fom th unnared
Even a the murdered gel was bn
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YOU Can Do It Too! fh se som oo et atCharles Sticke was sentenced to Iie
wn prion by a Philadephia, Pa, Com
sum Pens Cet fr his convicdon on
Theo conuts of murder, Kelnaping and
arse acne oun of ernie
Spirmey in the deaths of Tina Stata
thd Besecy Roddenbough (Blacing Fi
ta toa Night of Torment, September
Trove pace, 1975). The far, whieh
Gdliberated 90 utes, cold have
Sentenced him to death. ‘Two rape
Charges against the defendant ere
tlsmmsed bythe jase. Stele, 20, and
Steer suspect, Sibeet igen 2
istorating ta, were charged we the
nudes afer the tw 10 ear gis
rere found bane in an
Go May 10, 1975, Tnves
the viens Yad been coed, raped
toon and then dons ith’ fa
able liquil before. being. set ale
Sfiss Stat dio! lnoehately but Miss
eden sed og ah
tel police the name of one of the at
tacktrs war "Chaz
ckson County (Mo) Circuit
Gourt jury found Vincent X. Lee guilty
fof (wo counts of Bint degice murder
nl two counts of robbery in the June
15, 1975, slayings of Mrs. Judith
ell ahd Robert Pope ata 7-Eleve
sore (Compliance Meant Executor
October most ace, 1975). Mrs.
Mitchel, a clerk atthe store, and Pope
{customer were found shot to death
Tauck room, The crimes were al
ged to have been commilted about
erat. ated several state's witnesses
{eatifed Lee as having been ator near
the scene at that time, One witness
reported to police that he saw a freshly
painted Blick and yellow Cadillac near
the scene of the’ crime. Acthoaritis
checked car-psinting shops and found
that a man named Lee recently had his
1965 Cadillac painted yellow and
black, There alo was stienifc ev
idence presented that showed ba
found on the left shoe Lee was
ing when arrested was similar to the
hair of Mn. Mitchel, Dried. blood
spots were discovered on the sight shoe
and a trace of gunpowder on his hand.
Kerchief. The defense key witness was
a US. marine who testified Loe was
Si is apartment for Sve or ten minates
Dereon 1:30 and 2 pat, the day of
the shootings. On cross examination,
however, he admitted that his assertion
of time was basically « guess
a
After 4 Norfolk County (Mass) Su
perior Court fury found Thomas F.
felnerney gully of the fist degree
10
THE CLEANUP SPOT
rmuer of Cynthia Hartford, 26, in her
Quiney spartinent on August 15, 1074
Ut Tas to Be Someone Who Hates
Women, May #nost racs, 1975), he
was sentenced by a judge to life ime
rsument. ‘This sentence wil be
Servet ater Melnemey completes a
life term he recelved for the second
degree murder of Dora Howarth in
1962. Melnemey was paroled in 1973
for that murder conviction, During the
tral, the judge granted a defense mo.
tion that a partal confession, Melner-
rey allegedly made (0 lay officers be
eld from the jury. The presce
on presented six witnesses who test
el the defendant had confessed. the
Killing to them, According to Melner.
ey, he had tet the victim in «bar
and secompanied het to her apartment
‘where the woman allegedly laughed at
him because he was impotent. They
‘quarecled and he steangled her
a
David Roberts was convicted on nine
counts in the murders of Bil Patric;
his wife, Ann ond thelr infant daugh-
ter in their New Whiteland, Ind, home
(When Outrage Followed Outrage,
April rrost Pact, 1975). In the first
hil ofa two-part trial, Roberts was
found guilty on six counts of murder
and arson, A month later, he was con-
ieted on three counts of felony murder
‘while having a prior unrelated robbery
‘conviction. This conviction entries 2
randatory death sentence. The pros-
tceulion presented records showing that
Roberts had served six years and six
months of a 12-year sentence for com-
ritting a zobbery, Whon the defen-
ant took the stand during the second
part of the trial, he denied ever being
in New Whiteland before, Tn the Brst
part ofthe trial a coronce testified that
the couple's death were not accidental
or caused by a fire, but were due to
asphyxiation by: unknown means, The
infant died of smoko inhalation from
the January 20, 1974, fire in their
home, A fire marsbal testifed the fire
was set dliberitely. The prosecution
alleged Roberts killed Patrick to keep
him from testifying against him at a
theft tral, Roberts has been sentenced
tw die in the electric chair plus five life
terms for each murder conviction and
1 5:o-20 year term for arson.
Joxeph Kallinger, accused inthe
murder of a New Jersey nurse and
series of robberies and sexual assaults
fn three states (Would a Father Take
His Son On @ Rape-Murder Sprec?,
May rnowr act, 1975), was sea
eae to 30 8D yen prom for
the eres of four Tans, Pa
Mncwives on Docanber 3, 1975. Th
dg tend Him Ww rinet-20
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Fh de tr thr, Kal
00 a innur of 30
ais in eon ur Penni Kew
The ule any chased alinge. for
wworing the four women he robbed
that i they seperted hin to polis ‘the
font sysean being what it, TH be
St in bo time to get you? “You aro
tern Mr Klinger the judge sid
Kallinger wil stand tl in Now Jersey
for the death of Mao Fasching
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Sandea Good, 3, former roommate
of Lynette Squealy) Fromme wh wae
Senfenced to life Bnprsonment for at
tempting to asssinate President Ford
om September 6, 1975. (Ilanson Gil
Plots to Ril President, December
now pxor, 1978), was indicted by a
federal grand jury on changes of mai
ing IT death thats fo comport ot
exatives, Another Manson follower alo
Stas indicted. An FB spokesman eid
tho indictment was the raul of
Meg “death Uist” and the reported
naling of thretening letters 10. cor:
oration ‘executives. whose. Industries
tere sleet to have contnbuted fo en
vironmental petition
Charles Demis Easley was found
sully of murder with malice in the
1069 deah of T-year-td Donna, Ma
tie Golsh (Don't Get nto Cars With
Strangers, Aveust rnose nace, 1070).
‘jury had sentenced him to death but
4 Re el War grand ad the ese
twas heard by 3 udge without a fry.
Tad the jodge found Easley Innocent
the woald have gain his freedom, The
jadge rejected arguments by asays
Lewyer that there, was insullicent or
idence to suppor a gully verdit. The
atoney bad pointed out thatthe Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals had
aside Easley’ corwitin forthe 1970
murder of U-yearold Laue Sieve
Incaue ‘of Sntulcent evidence. The
dlstrietattomey argued that the
Gali case, there had been two wit
‘ses who’ placed Eadey in the area
where the gal dlsappearca. “We did
fot have witneses to pat the delen:
dant in the area. where the Steves
fil disappeared” he ai
a
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Kirksey McCord Nix, Peter Mule ond
John Fulford, serving life terms for the
murder of Frank Corso, a New Orleans
grocer (Kill Him and Keep Moving,
July mos race, 1972) were upheld
by the Louisiana Supreme Court. The
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DECEMBER 34, 1975
From the begioning there were sev
Gal puzaling wepects to the disappear
fence’ of Susan ‘Gorman, an attractive
1Gyearold ened at the University of
Gincinnath, Certainly there was. 10
doubt that the gil was missing. And
nto a Kidnaping
ment that it was
had ever handled
‘AL the Gorman home on Ould
Drive, ia a fashionable section of Cin
ional, there was no puzalement at all,
nstead there was deep. anaiety an
worry, Her Family Kew that if S
Stayed sway’ from horne Bt was bec
omeone wat forcing her (0.
‘Susan was an unusually active gel
sand clearly not the type to disappear
tim her own, She worked en petitions
Campaigned for cxsses, repaired me
Ghanleal things, rode "a rootoreycle.
Served as election judge and was the
‘nly female on the’ Ann If
Boer Training Corps Drill Team at th
tunivenity, where she was 2 pre-law
stodent
in the Bist week of November she
Tad taken an afterschool job to cam
money for Christmas gilts asa clerk at
a cheese store on Evie Avenue. Since
it eas fn the Hyde Dusk section of the
m the Cor
home, Susan sometimes rode her
ryele to work.
(On days when the weather was bad,
however, she walked. ‘That was the
‘cue on Wednesday, November 26,
1075 a¢ 2 minture of rain and snow
Fell in Cincinnati
Susan arrived at the store st 3 7.
Classes at the university were over for
the week and the coed had a heliday
to look forward to. She worked ntl
6:15, as usual, then put oa her ski
jacket and weiked out into the wet
hilly night. If she hursied, she could
bye Brome in time to thaw out, clean up
and relax a few minutes before siting
down to dinner at seven,
But, when. Susan's family sat down
to Thanksgiving dinner, there was an
‘mply chair atthe table, A call to the
store told the Cormnans that Susan had
frrived and loft work. Calls to ber
friends gave them no fakling of where
she might be. They knew her boy
friend was hundreds of miles away
stationed in an Army camp.
en abducted, probers
[At 10:30 434. Thanksgiving mom-
ing, a phone call was received at the
Gorman home. It wae about Sian, but
not from her and it sent her father to
police headquarters where he reported
missing and said a man
had called demanding a $5000 ransom
for her safe return
“The call had been taken by one of
Susan's brothers. The kidnaper warmed
he war holding Susan and two other
coeds and said he would call over the
Send to say where he wanted the
money left. Gorman said he got to the
‘Phone in time to hear the caller’ final
Sentence ... This I no joke.
‘The missing. gil
19; five feet, four i
ing, about 130” pounds
dark, curly hair; hazel eyes, and when
Tast Seen, wearing a light blue denim
jumper, a red-andawhite gingham
black patent leather
finally, 9 dark
blue i jacket.
The ransom call that
followed Carol's
disappearance may
have heen merely the
afterthought of a
man who already had
committed murder
by JOHN V. TEN EYK= XN
Days went by before coed’s body was:
found in roadside ditch. One of
‘many activities that were part of
her commitment to life was working
in political campaigns (1). Man
charged had both a criminal record
and a history of mental problems.
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SIE had lot of friends at the univer-
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Pershiig Riles, a miltay-alliated
fratemity that fumished del teams
and color guards,
‘She had enrolled in ROTC when
she fist entered the school and was
‘ceorbod. asa. dedicated member,
committed to the program. Sho had
beeen promoted from cadet private to
cadet Sergeant in one year, an unusual
promotion for such a short time. She
Wwas a squad leader, responsible for
Freshman cadets, acting as a. sort of
student advisor.
‘Susan had coached softball team
and in her sexapbooks there were to
first-place ribbons for swimming,
‘There were alo numerous snapshots,
Neues, a presed rie fem =. dance
and newpaper clippings. Susan ako
‘was fond cf music, and would sing
While her father played the piano
She was always smiling and
met 2 person she dide® lke” a family
member said, “She acerpted everyone
the way thy were Anytime nyone
wanted someone to do something,
Bloaps went to Souns A
‘The previous summer sho had ac-
companied a woman with cerebral
palsy to the West Coast by car, tak
ing care of her throughout the’ long
Journey s0 the worn could move te
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worked at a restaurant and it as at
the "reauant where ihe met the
young man who Was now described as
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She lio was mechanically minde
aod hada” bok on how tose
watches, She recently had put a rots
sei together an had planed to we
it to cook the family Thanksgivin
finkey tenella
No, absolutely not, was the answer
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fo wheter she woold wilgly pare
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