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Monday, March 28, 1994
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Convict's release prompts protests
California governor tries to find home for paroled rapist
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — His release from prison enraged residents of a sparsely populated northern California county and rocked the state parole system. The governor is now personally considering his case. But who is Melvin Alfred Carter, the serial rapist of at least 100 women?
Carter, 49, who has served less than half his original 25-year prison sentence and is now living in a two-bedroom bungalow in a forest prison camp, grew to manhood with a profound hatred of women, according to a confidential Alameda County probation assessment.
"While he has dated 'a few' women during his adulthood, he has never had a close or satisfying relationship with a woman and he has never had sexual contact with any woman he has dated," the document said.
Carter has said he assaulted women almost monthly for 10 years.
Dubbed the "College Terrace
Rapist," for a Palo Alto neighborhood near Stanford University, Carter never varied his methods, investigators say.
He stalked young women who lived alone near college campuses. Wearing surgical gloves and carrying a knife, he entered the dwellings after the victims had gone to bed. Before creeping into the bedrooms, he cut phone and electrical wires.
Carter was captured in 1880 and eventually convicted of 23 crimes, including rape, assault, burglary and attempt to commit burglary.
At his sentencing in March 1982, Carter confessed to some 100 rapes. But last month, prison officials realized they had no choice but to release Carter. His good behavior had already shaved off one-third of his 25-year sentence and a subsequent change in state law boosted good-time and work-time credits to half the time off.
Carter was originally scheduled for release in Hayward, conforming to a state law requiring release in the county of conviction. But protests in Alameda County prompted Gov. Pete Wilson to order him sent "out in the wilderness someplace," and Carter was secretly placed in the bungalow at the Devil's Garden Conservation
Camp near tiny Alturas, 400 miles northeast of San Francisco.
Devil's Garden is one of the state's 38 minimum-security compounds, which house more than 4,000 inmates. The camps are considered the country clubs of the correctional system, taking only inmates with no history of sex offenses, arson, crimes of violence, kidnapping or escape. Because Carter is a parolee, not an inmate, the guidelines do not apply.
Carter's presence has prompted threats against his life, including the digging of a mock grave. A busload of Modoc High School girls and politicians descended on the state Capitol to demand Carter be moved.
Last Wednesday, a group representing the state's 4,000 forest firefighters added their voices, saying that Carter's presence in a camp used as a firefighting base placed employees of the Forestry Department in jeopardy.
Two weeks ago, a woman who lives in Modoc County came forward and claimed Carter raped her 15 years ago. His continued presence near a victim would violate state law. Wilson is expected to decide early this week whether to transfer Carter to another location.
Italian centrists discredited elections promise change
The Associated Press
ROME — Voters began giving Italy a new political face yesterday, the first day of national elections that promise to turn the government's sights to the right or the left.
With the centrist parties that led the country since 1948 discredited by a corruption scandal, the parliamentary elections pitted a conservative alliance formed by one of Italy's richest men against a leftist coalition dominated by former Communists.
Pollsters and media are barred from disclosing exit poll results until voting ends tonight.
business elite.
Both the centrist and pro-Catholic Christian Democrats and Socialist parties, which have led the country for four decades, fell from grace in a kickback scandal that has tainted many of the nation's political and
Former Socialist leader and ex-Premier Bettino Craxi is heavily implicated in the scandal, and more than a quarter of parliament is being investigated for possible wrongdoing.
That leaves the conservative Freedom Alliance — led by media magistrate Silvio Berlusconi's upstart Forza Italia ("Go Italy") party — and Achille Occhetti the Democrat Party of the left, the former Communists.
Joining the former Communists in a campaign coalition were the anti-Mafa Network, Greens and hard-line Communists.
The last polls, released two weeks ago, gave a slight edge to Forza Italia and its partners, including the National Alliance, the party of Alessandra Mussolini, the dictator's granddaughter.
Tornado kills 17 at church service
The Associated Press
PIEDMONT, Ala. — A tornado struck a church during a Palm Sunday service yesterday, killing 17 people and injuring at least 90.
The roof at Goshen Methodist Church collapsed about 11:30 a.m., state trooper Bvon Morris said.
About 140 people were in the church north of Piedmont in eastern Alabama when a string of tornadoes moved through the area. Rescuers dug for survivors by hand, then called in cranes to lift the roof and continued the search.
Displaced residents were sent to the Piedmont Civic Center and National Guard Armory.
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