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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday. Sept. 25. 1985
Police say killer tortured victims
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — A killer who stalks prostitutes and who apparently has slain at least 10 of them in a two-year series of attacks tortured his victims before they died and mutilated them afterward, authorities said yesterday.
Police, who Monday released a composite drawing of a possible suspect, a black man with a thin mustache and muscular build, say the killer stabbed and strangled 10 prostitutes and assaulted two others in South Los Angeles and two suburbs, Inglewood and Gardena.
The 12 victims ranged in age from 22 to 41, police said, and all but two were black women.
Their bodies, either nude or partially clad, were found wrapped in blankets and rugs and dumped on residential streets. Most of the women died of strangulation, but also
had been knifed in apparent "over-
kill."
Some of the wounds inflicted before the victims died were "superficial, torture-type wounds," a detective close to the investigation said yesterday, while other victims were knifed after they died.
Inglewood police yesterday revealed that the killer struck twice on New Year's Day, the first time in 1984.
Patricia Coleman's body was found dumped Jan. 1 of that year near a park, Sgt. Harold Moret said. She died of strangulation and also had been stabbed.
The last known slaying in the string was on Aug. 15, when the body of Gail Ficklin was found on a street in Watts — in the same block where the first known victim in Los Angeles, Sheila Burris, was dumped in November 1984
The killer is not thought to have
struck from New Year's Day 1984 until early November 1984, when the body of Gayle Marie Rousell was found in Gardena. Burris's body was found about three weeks later.
Another victim, Frankie Bell, turned up in South Los Angeles on New Year's Day 1885.
The body of Patricia Dennis was discovered Feb. 11 and Lillian Stoval was found dead March 23, both in Los Angeles.
On March 30, Shelly Wilson's body was found near another park in Inglewood. She had been stabbed in the heart. The body of Patsy Webb, stabbed several times, was found April 15 on a street in Los Angeles. On July 28 the strangled body of Cathy Gustavenson was dumped in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles
Except for Webb, Wilson and Rousell, all the victims died of stangulation, authorities said.
Church gives $6.5 million grant for poor
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Roman Catholic Church's anti-poverty agency, charging the nation has "turned our back" on the poor, yesterday announced $6.5 million in grants to 217 low-income, self-help groups, with a special emphasis on the farm crisis.
"The evidence indicates that a laissez-faire approach to capitalism is continuing to fail millions of desperately poor Americans," the Rev. Alfred LoPinto, executive director of the Campaign for Human
Development, told a news conference yesterday. "And contemporary attitudes about the poor reflect the poverty of our vision as well as the poverty in our living standards."
LoPinto called the "celebration and self-congratulation" that accompanied the recent Census Bureau finding that poverty had dropped 0.9 percent to 14.4 percent of the population "a sad commentary on how far we as a nation have lowered our sights, or even turned our backs on the poverty in our midst."
The Campaign for Human Development was founded by the
nation's Roman Catholic bishops 15 years ago to finance locally based anti-poverty programs run by, as well as for, poor people. It has awarded grants and loans of more than $88 million in that time.
Because the financing criteria also insist that the programs must address the "root causes" of poverty rather than deliver charity, some of the grants have come under criticism from conservative government officials who charge the church with financing leftist and radical organizations.
Campaigners learn tactics at GOP school
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WASHINGTON — The National Republican Congressional Committee yesterday unveiled the first-ever school to train campaign workers.
Hoping that professionally trained campaign workers will translate to a gain in the number of House seats in the 1986 election, the committee will spend $1 million during the next year to train 140 workers in campaign management, finance and communications.
Rep. Guy Vander Jagt, R-Mich., chairman of the NRCC, discussed the school at a news conference where he said six finance managers had already completed the 10-week course. Vander Jagt said 35 students are now in training in the three programs and more than 100 others will be recruited for programs through next summer.
In the past, political parties have held weeklong seminars to train campaign workers, but there has never been anything as ambitious or expensive as the new Republican program.
Vander Jagt said applicants will not be required to submit to a "litmus test" to show they are Republicans, and he suspects that the Democrats might try to infiltrate the school.
Republican Party campaign veterans from around the country have been recruited to teach the courses in classrooms set up in an office building in suburban Rosslyn, Va.
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