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* ¥ ¥ Mutilation Death Details ReportedFCRT WORTH, Tex. (AP; — Discovery of the nude body of a young woman, apparently strangled and tliatu sliced in half, at a West Fort Worth dump provided investigators still another mystery today.The unidentified victim, esti. mated between 17 and 21 years old, was the fifth woman found brutally murdered here during the month of February in the past decade. A11 the slayings remain unsolved.These details were reported in a copyrighted news story by the Fort Worth Star.Telegram-.Two White Settlement men hunting auto parts discovered the latest victim inside a 30. inch-square box about 2:30 p.m. Sunday.The Tarrant County medical examiner, Dr. Feliks Gwodz. said the Woman had been dead no longer than 24 hours and ap. parently was strangled before her body was severed.“Whoever did it has to be nuts,” county medical invest!, gator R. O. Medford said,Clifford Few Ier, 23. and Dale Sustalre, 22, told White Settle, men! police they drove to the dumpgrounds in Sustains for. eign car,I Motioni Age Outmurder in'the shooting„of his estranged wife Priscilla. Theshootings occurred in the Davlfi residence where Mrs. Davis lived while the couple was ob. taining a divorce.In addition the wealthy Fort Worth Industrialist faces charges of attempted murder of Mrs. Davis and a visitor, Gus Gavrel Jr., in the same shoot, ing spree that night.Through last week prose, cutors and defense lawyers questioned eight potential Ju. rorsand all were excused from hearing the case.After finding the hinged box, sealed with new nails, they took the trunk lid from the car, loaded the heavy crate inside and drove to Sustalre's home, Fort Worth Patrolman G, R. Shaw said.The men said they drove away witfi the box because they thought it might contain auto parts. They left the crate out. side the house while one got a screwdriver and hammer to pry it open.“A hand came up when they raised the Hd,” Medford said.The men summoned police. Officers raised the box lid again, revealing the body of a slim woman with long, dark blonde hair. There were light bruises on the right side of the neck.Investigators said the two sections of the body had been arranged carefully, and there was little blood inside the box, which was lined at the bottom with tinfoil.“It looks like the box was built for that purpose,” said White Settlement policeman L. W. Terry.The body war taken to All Saints Morgue and X-rays of the teeth were taken in an ef. fort to establish identity.Detectives searching the dump ground found several feet of blood-stained nylon cord tan. gled in a rope.“She apparently was killed somewhere else and stuffed in the box,” an investigator said, “This Is similar to the June Ward slaying. Both were naked and both possibly strangled.”The battered body of Mrs. Ward was discovered Feb. 1C on a curb in far South Ford Worth, nude except for a gokl necklace and a basslere strap tied around the neck. Police said she had been gludgeoned with an ax or hatchet.On Feb. 3, 1967, the nude and strangled body of Mildred May was found along a bank of the Triinty River. She had left a disabled automobile on a Fort Worth freeway.
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Del Rio News Herald
Del Rio, Texas, US
Mon, Feb 28, 1977
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