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Newspaper

Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jul 17, 1985

Page

5

Body found at hideaway identified in Lake case

SAN FRANCISCO AP A body in a sleeping bag buried in a hillside hideaway has been identified as Lonnie Bond, neighbor of survivor Leonard Lake. Bond, 27, disappeared in May amid sexual advances allegations toward Brenda O Connor. Bond and two others were among at least 11 bodies tied to Lake and associate Charles Ng.

San Francisco Leonard Lake Lonnie Bond Bond Calaveras County Terry Parker Lake Brenda O’connor Lonnie Jr Baby Robin Stapley Parker

Teens Use Home Computers In Nationwide Credit Fraud Scam

Seven teens used home computers to commit credit fraud and rack up fake charges while learning access codes for Pentagon generals. Prosecutor Alan Rockoff calls it a real life War Games style scheme with 500 potential victims nationwide. One youth was arrested in June. another arrested Tuesday and others expected to be rounded up under a new computer access law.

South Plainfield N.J Pentagon Middlesex County Alan Rockoff Pentagon Brass Rockoff Connecticut

Food plot fizzled in wartime radiological attack plan

Stanford historian Barton J. Bernstein says recently declassified papers show U S and British documents outlining a plan to poison half a million Germans and Japanese via radioactive food and water to deter Nazi threats. The scheme faltered due to technical issues and focus on building the atomic bomb.

Stanford Calif U.S Stanford University Barton J. Bernstein Bernstein Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Technology Review Massachusetts Institute of Technology J. Robert Oppenheimer Enrico Fermi Pearl Harbor Nobel Arthur Holly Compton

Film fulfills dying woman wish to see Cocoon in hospital

Irene Sullivan, dying of leukemia, watched 20th Century Fox fantasy Cocoon with her 11 year old son Christopher in her hospital room. They cried at scenes about dying and smiled at scenes about eternal life as the film studio delivered a videotape for her birthday wish.

San Francisco Irene Sullivan Christopher Rose Nobel Sullivan 20Th Century-Fox

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