University Daily Kansan, January 16, 1984
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Youth charged with Fort Wayne crimes
By United Press International
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The hand-cuffed, scared-looking kid brought into the courtroom for arraignment didn't look like a killer.
He glanced toward his sobbing mother for advice when the judge asked him a question. He wept. His head was bowed. He wrapped forward and his head was bowed.
The harmless-looking teen/ager was Calvin D. Perry III, who last week became the prime suspect in a sequence of killings, rabbs, stabbing and robberies that had terrorized the south side of Fort Wayne for months.
FRIDAY PROSECUTORS charged Perry with five counts stemming from two separate incidents. The charges include bullying, rape and child molestation.
The most notorious crime with which Perry, 18, has yet to be charged is the bombing in September that killed all but one member of a newspaper editor's family.
"Mr. Perry told me that they (the detectives) threatened to torture him unless he confessed to the killings," said Rev. James Fischer, pastor of Faith Missionary Baptist Church and Reverend Mereddenominational Ministerial Alliance.
editorial page editor Dan Osborne, 35; his wife, Jane, 34, and son, Ben, 11, all slain in a late-night rampage on Saturday; 2, was beaten and sexually assaulted, but survived
But a Fort Wayne ministerial alliance said Perry told them he was inimfect of the Observer slayings and the NBC investigation, signing a confession about the murders.
A LIST OF 15 ATTACKS dates as far
A JUDGE'S GAG ORDER* to fortify
religious information to the media
'Mr. Perry told me that they (the detectives) threatened to torture him unless he confessed to the killings.'
pastor
back as late as 12pm. It doesn't end until just before Perry's arrest Jan 5, minutes after he allegedly broke into the home. He stole $1.50, broken her nails and fled.
*a young mother and her six-year-old daughter, both of whom were raped
- a 79-year-old woman who died from injuries sustained in an attack on her and her husband in their home.
Some other victims of crimes to
which Perry has allegedly confessed in
their trial.
except through court documents, has
the case in silence since Wednesday.
and daughter, both of whom were trapped.
• a retired teacher who was knifed in her home, just doors away from the home of Fort Wayne's police chief.
Before the gag order was issued, law enforcement officials said that they were unable to pinpoint a motive for the crimes. The common threads, they said, were most of the victims that they had been accused of within 14 blocks of Perry's house and that all of them were white. Perry is black.
PERRY'S SKIN color is anything but irrelevant to the case. The Osornes' 2-year-old daughter said she remembered seeing a "light-skinned" man who shined a flashlight in her eyes and beat her.
But police content that the child's traumatized memory could not be completely trusted. And there is apparently a far more damaging witness ready to testify against Perry: Perry himself.
- Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
PERRY RESEMBLES the kind of
MANPIRY WE were looking for in some
rurea.
Police say that less than a day after his arrest, Perry, after waiving his rights to an attorney, began incriminating himself before a videotape only the killer could know what Osborne knew about the case, officials said.
A profile based on an FBI analysis of all the evidence gathered in the Osborne case indicated the culprit might be a loner, that he probably lived in rental housing or with parents, and that his father might be absent from the house. Perry appears to fit on all counts.
The profile also suggested the killer would be slightly below average in intelligence. Perry was 18 years old when he draped a metal wire when he dragged out of high school.
But the profile was also off in some respects. It suggested the killer would be white, and pointed to someone between 21 and 27 years of age.
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A FRAUD EXAMINES THE FRAUDULENT
Webster's Third New International Dictionary defines a fraud as "a person who is not what he pretends to be". I am, alas, such a person. My many noisy attempts to induce laughter rarely enable me to forget my failure, i.e., I'm unemployed, in the so-called free enterprise system. My peers—there are millions of us self-conscious unemployed laggards on the societal sidelines—and I are still courageously trying to accept our government's increasing fascination with and support of the sterile and fraudulent.
If, for instance, tax dollars are used to maintain a Teen Center where automobile-laden adolescents can loll before the television and endure rock music together, or create facilities in which the bureaucrats of the Indian Center (this contingent's latest idea would cost the public $60,000) can more comfortably "counsel" and distribute, these expenditures will only occur after the City Commission has listened to all those wishing to be heard. Such is not the case, however, with some important national questions.
This is why our political system currently considers privately-funded television programs which stunt more important than publicly-funded day care programs which develop, privately-funded video arcades which captivate more important than publicly-funded schools which inform, privately-run understaffed rising student teachers, privately-run hospitals that publicly-run havens which serve and thereby support, and privately-run abortion clinics which kill more important than publicly-run adoption agencies which unite.
In each of these instances, a large but voiceless body of people has paid for the misrepresentations of some segment of the entrepreneurial set.
The Aspen Institute, an American think tank, recently published a "Work and Human Values" survey which, in the words of the December 3rd Kansas City Times, "said unemployment in the industrialized West would continue at what used to be unacceptably high levels because of untapped human potential." One of the report's co-authors described unemployment as a "tragedy of society and of the individual . . . a way of destroying a generation of people."
Instead of continuing to reward those who obliterate, oppress and destroy, perhaps this country and the rest of the Free World should strive to encourage only those who conserve, enlighten and nurture and thus put national resources to productive use.
William Dann 2702 West 24th St. Terrace
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