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Officer Says Man Admitted Killing Co-edifRENO i.UPD-A Spark? po-! lice c;elective testified Monday ithal Michael P. Anselmo confessed to killing Trudy Ann Hiler on a Lake Tahoe beach last July while both of them were ■■ pret.lv well gone” on LSD.Detective Sgt. Gordon Jenkins, said in Washoe District Court that Anselmo and the 22-year-old coed were' on ‘the ‘beach when she took a knife from her purse and started talking 'about wanting to die.”She kept-talking about it.” Jenkins said the 15-year-old Anselmo told him. I did what she wanted me to do. I killed her.”•Defense attorney Jerome Pol a ha suggested Jenkins was less interested .in getting the truth than in obtaining a confession.For two days he told yousomebody else did it and when he told you he did it the examirial ion stopped,” Poiaha said.Jenkins ■ replied that Ansel-umo's confession was more consistent with the facts.” Did you tel! him ‘You did it. come on, confess and get it off your chest?'” Poiaha asked on another occasion. I might have.” Je’nkins replied, ‘‘although 1 didn't think I said it that wavi”Jenkinsduringthealso testified that firs: • of two “interviews” he had with Anselmo on July 17. Anselmo I old him that another person had killed Miss Hiler, someone he knew from Las Vegas.
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San Mateo Times
San Mateo, California, US
Tue, Apr 18, 1972
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