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MURDER SUSPECT — Slate Police Sgi. Joe Krease tape* a revised composite of Ihe suspect wanted in connection wlih Ihe kill Inc. of four Oakland County. Midi., children before revealing Monday ihe task fori?, found a new witness who aave Ihe force nilrln I led description of Ihe suspect. Rif nrw composite shows a young while man wkh stringy dark hair, a dark complexion, high forehead, long narrow nose and narrow-set eye*. 1UPIFour Children KilledSlayer Active in WinterBIRMINGHAM. Midi. fAPi — The winter is an uneasy lime for 3S dclcclives nn Ihe Oakland County homidde lask force. •Tltal is when ihe killer comes.Nine monllis ago. Ihe body of ll-year old Timolliy King was found in a ditch, the fourth local child murdered over Ihe pas! I wo winters.Tlie Iasi abduclion occurred wlllioui any snow on Ihe ground, said Sgl. Joe Krease, assistant director of tlie task force. But we do have a pailern. And that pallcm shows Dial our man is active only in I lie winter.On Monday, police put logoilier a new composite drawing of the man they think they are hunting, after they located and interviewed a woman from this Detroit suburb who telephoned them with a description Iasi March but did not leave Iter name.Police said the woman, who was not identified, called lasl spring lo say site had seen a man resembling composite drawings released or March 16,I lie day Timmy King disappeared.Tlie boy was found dead a week lalcr in u ditch in Livonia. He had been sexually molested and suffocated.Tlie woman told police the man she saw was sluing In a blue Gremlin parked on a side street near (he Birmingham elementary school Timmy al tended.She saw the man twice Ihe day the youngster disappeared, near the school and later leaning against a blue Gremlin In a supermarket parking lot.The King boy was last seen al 8 30 p.m. in tlie same parking lot. At leasl two oilier witnesses linked Hie suspecl lo Ihe lot. One saw a boy fitting Timmy's description talking lo a man leaning against a late model biucGrcnilm.Stale police LI. Robert Robertson, director of the task force, said he thinks the new composite is an improvement over past ones.“We feel comfortable with this picture. Robertson said. ‘Hils one really looks like a person Wiili this we might beable lo Identify Ihe man.Now we pul the man and me car together. he said. It mtgfu not necessarily be a blue Gremlin II could be another blue car like a Honda.Robertson said delectives liavc cleared 2,600 of the more Ilian 8.0JO blue Gremlins Islered in Michigan ffleet* say they believe the killer is a while man between 25 and 30 ears old. weighing between 150 and 170 pounds They believe he abducts children, plays liouse with them for up lo 19 days, and then kills them.His victims — three smoilmred and one shot in the face -were well-fed. clean and warmly cfo!tied during llieir captivity, police said. Timmy had been washed, dressed and fed his favorile meal — fried chicken — before he was slain, police saidThe firsl killing was that of 12-year-old Mark Stebbins on Feb. i^lcfi^Tne^foUo^dlhe ■“^SavevToff 1 Holiday Fashions Islayings of Jill Robinson. 12. on Dec. 22,1976, Kristine Mihelich, 10, on Jan 2, 1977; and Timmy King on Mardi 23,1977 Only I lie two boys were sexually molested, police said.PYRAMIDS PI.ANNEDNEW YORK (AP) - Pyramie*-shape recording studios will be built in Malibu, Calif., It has been announced here.The reason ts t belief Uva: to achieve ihe best recorded sound, no two opposite walls should be the same.The new studio will consist of a giant pyramid with fhrec smaller pyramids inside, each a recording studio measuring 2,5t® feet. Interior wall construction will alternate fiberglass squares with flat surfaces, each 16 Inches square.Tlie annouccrnent was made by Roy Cicala, president of the Record Plant he-*-r~^.eaVenSoSTif T1I m NURSERIES A | I CKrUtmn. trail .
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Leavenworth Times
Leavenworth, Kansas, US
Tue, Dec 20, 1977
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