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Massachusetts manmay be stranglerLOS ANGELES CAP) — A 37- Shamshak said he drove Jones’ year-old maintenance man van during the three killings, from Massachusetts has been the newspaper said, and lie booked on investigation of detector tests confirmed parts murder in two of the 13 hillside of his story Shamshak was strangling.* after his childhood brought to Los Angeles March friend told police he watched 17.while the man killed three Gates told reporters at awomen hastily called news conference“It is a major break, said Thursday that Shamshak and Police Chief Daryl Gates, “and Jones were being questioned in we’re very hopeful that it will connection with the successfully conclude at least strangulations last November of those two and perhaps more of Jill Barcomb, 18. and Kathleen the slayings attributed to the Robinson. 17.Hillside Strangler in which the The two men lived in Jones’ bodies of female victims were apartment from the end of dumped onto roads and October until Shamshak hillsides Many were nude and returned to Cambridge, ac-sexually molested and all were cording to the Herald strangled American.We have sufficient in- The body of Miss Barcomb, formation to believe that one or the fifth victim attributed to the both of these suspects are in- Hillside Strangler. was volved in these murders, discovered on Nov. 10,1977, and Gates said Neither man has the body of Miss Robinson seven been charged. days later, authorities said,Los Angeles police arrested both after Shamshak s escape Beverly Hills maintenance man Police showed ShamshakPeter Mark Jones. 37, formerly about 80 photos of women and he of Boston, at his apartment on picked out Miss Robinson and Thursday. Miss Barcomb, the HeraldGeorge Shamshak. 27, of American said Boston, now in the men's prison Gates said a 1988 Ford vanon Los ‘ Angeles' Terminal owned by Jones had been Island, reportedly told police impounded by police and that about Jones and the killings investigators were searching when auestioned in February at both the van and Jones’ apar-Walpole State Prison in tmentMassachusetts. Gates said. “Mr. ShamshakShamshak had escaped on has been cooperating with us Oct. 24, 1977, from the state but added that Shamshak “has Correction Department's pre- been promised nothing for his release center in Shirley, Mass. cooperation He had been serving a four-to Snamshak’s mother believesfive-year term for armed he is telling the truth about the robbery killings. “He was so frightenedHe was recaptured in and afraid he would be killed. I Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 9 Two know he wouldn't lie about days later, authorities said, this. said Alice Shamshak in Shamshak told Massachusetts Bostonstate police in his cell that he Kathy Whittaker, 24, a nursehad watched Jones kill three in Bath. Maine, and Jones’ women in a Ford van in Los former fiancee, told The Anaeles. Associated Press in a telephoneShamshak said one woman interview. “I really can't was stabbed, one strangled, and believe he's done something like one hit on the head with a blunt this. It must be a mistake. It’s a object, according to a story in shock to me He’s a very gentle. The Boston Herald American, passive person.
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Portsmouth Herald
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US
Fri, Mar 31, 1978
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