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One year ago, 6SIOUX CITY (AIM Flowers, candles, stuffed animals, balloons and notes decorated a fence around a small two-story home where the bodies of a woman and her five children were found a year ago.The tributes began appearing this week, a year alter the Aug. 110, 2001, discovery of the bodies of Leticia Aguilar and her children, Claudia, 12; Zack, 11; Larry, 9; Lisa, 7; and Michael, 6.I miss you when you are not near me. I love to hem' your steps. Thafs by far the sweetest music. ... My ears await everyday,” says a poster placed on the fence.Adam Moss, 24, pleaded guilty to killing Aguilar and her children, as well as local businessman Ron Fish, 58.Authorities said Moss beat each of the children to death with a hammer while they slept, then went to Aguilar’s room, cut her throat and beat her in the face with a hammer. Fish, found dead at his home about two miles away, had been attacked with a hammer and knife.Moss is serving seven consecutive life terms without parole at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. He has not responded to interview requests.rrhe Aguilar house has been donated to the Neighborhood Network, a local organization that plans to sell the property, spokesman Rick Arnold said. Money from the sale will be used to purchase playground equipment for a children’s park.“It is a park where the Aguilar kids would have played. The Neighborhood Network andin family slainAP file photoHector Saldana, father of four of five slain children, places flowers on each casket during an interment ceremony for Leticia Aguilar, 31, and her five children at Evergreen Memorial Park in Merced, Calif., last year. The six were found slain Aug. 30, 2001, in their home in Sioux City.the city will work together on getting the playground equipment,” Arnold said. “We wanted something positive to come out of that tragic situation last year. Now, there will be a lasting memory to those children.”
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Sat, Aug 31, 2002
Page 159
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