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Officers Fire Guns ToRecapture StudentAttempting; To EscapeRENO, Nev. (\IM—V Imikv, IS-m .m ohl hi^h school youth, who id gun-firing police on a brief loot chiivr during his investigation, v;is hooked Saturday night for the savage dismemberment slaying if skier Sonja Met askie a Meek ago Friday.Disl. AUy. William II. Baggio told newsmen Thomas Bean ad-nitted the slaying and gave rape as the motive.Kaggio said Bean told him he had not known Mis*# Mel askie.The district attorney, relaying Bean's story to reporters, said lean entered the 21-year-old secretary's duplex apartment, about talf a mile from Bean’s home, about midnight Thursday, April 4. le carried with him a piece of rope and a butcher knife.Raggio said Bean told him hevoke up Miss Met askie who wasAs Bean burst out the station,sleep in her lied, strangled herJd,l! Mueen If. and 20 officers, aped her ami slabbed her with 11! Mmg-Dirt Atty. Raggio. took ■is knife. He took ihr body t» the llI chase Three officers fired aiving room and cut il up. 11,,tal ,,f liv*' shols as Bean ledMiss McC'ask.e s heart and left tlu m UP an alk‘- across a street foot were found on the floor ol jn(l h,',vm'n ,vso hollsC *hctehe living room, her body and lu wus captured.S Afterward Bean ask«'d lt;f po-Officials have said cause of ' WMo was shooting at me?I wiAsevered head in a hone chest.B i'j uo and other officers thendeath was strangulation.Bean was linked to the lt;through a camera belonging to Bean to his home for a shortMiss McCaskie which had been whlk- ^ mM %venl on a dnvefound in a pawnshop. ak»n« vund,l'« Lakeside Road inIn a routine check of pawn- southeast Reno and then to theMl Mips, John Peever. investigator ;iskii* apartment,for Raggio, came across the cam Kaggio -said Bean willingly re-era, a type fitting o|erating in- enacted 'lie slaying while a sound struct ions found in Miss McCask m°tion picture was made, ic's apartment, last Thursday “,,e ,s lt;)IM“ of ,hlt; coolest sub-Thc name on the pawn ticket K'ds I have ever been confronted was almost unreadable |U| hh in any serious offense, Rug-Peover made ' Bean” out of it. «in s**id.No “Bean” lived at the addle-- R 'dgio said Bean went throughgiven hut Pecvcr finally deter- ,hlt;‘ motions of killing a personmined that a Bean lamily had h no ,race of emotion, reluc-tunce 01 indication of lemorse.lived there innl pnst| peeve IS further emrking l-d to The district attorney said Beanthe pickup of Thomas B. an at ,;id ' Ver studied anatomy andhis home. Office asked him K1*1*1' the official theory that Misscome to the station to discuss the askit had Ikvii killed and dis-camera.numbered bv .someone with aHe agreed at the station to !*■ knowledge of the human body wasfinger and foot-printed. It was the wronLfootpriuting. Bean told Rar,g.o, ' Rl!t vu‘‘ satisfied that Beantuat caused him to make his the man. - Raggio declared, break from officers leading him Kagisio said Bean was a student from the identification room to a al tiic new Wooster High School.lie detector room.n Pinm It
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Eureka Humboldt Times
Eureka, California, US
Sun, Apr 14, 1963
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