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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1978
Page
3
A burial map drawn by John Wayne Gacy Jr allegedly guided investigators to 15 skeletal remains in the ranch house crawl space in Des Plaines Illinois. Police say the discovery followed a confession to 32 murders and possible earlier victims.
Two traffic crashes in Lexington County killed three people and left six injured. Toni Marie Bliesner 28 of Columbia died in a head on collision on Platt Springs Road with three of her children severely injured. The other vehicle occupants Horace Hook Sylvia Hook and Michael Hook survived. A separate one car crash killed Anthony Coy Harmon 24 and Davis Odell Harman 56 of Leesville.
A one million dollar safe packed with experimental drugs was stolen from the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. Thieves used a block and tackle to move a 1000 pound safe from the sixth floor to a truck, in a heavily patrolled area. The seizure included cocaine morphine methadone codeine and amphetamines with 52 vials of research drugs and numerous pill bottles labeled UM. Police say inside knowledge aided the theft and warn of potential fatal outcomes without medical supervision.
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