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Police seek clues in park slaying* ItS£N FRANCISCO (AP) t police were seeking clu£s today in the “expert” decapitation of a map whose body was found in Golden Gate ParkThe body of Leroy Carter Jrl, 29, was found in a sleeping bag near Alvord Lake on Sunday. The headShirts bannedSALISBURY, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s black government says it is going to ban T-shirts with * provocative, inflammatory and racist” slogans favored by white youths to lament the fall of the old white Rhodesian regime. The outlawed shirts carry such messages as “Rhodesian Might Is White and Right, “I Slay Gooks” and “Join The Army, Visit Exotic Places, Meet Interesting People and Kill Them.”The shirts, beer mugs made from shell casings and “white power” tattoos are favorites of many white veterans of the seven-year war against black guerrillas that failed to preserve white-minority rule of what was formerly Rhodesia.was not found despite an extensive search of the area, and authorities speculated the slaying may have been a ritualistic killing.“It appears the victim was sleeping in the bushes ... when person or persons unknown to us at this time came along and decapitated him,” said Sgt. Mike Pera.Two kernels of corn and a chicken wing were found where the head would be, and the body of a chicken was found about 50 yards away, according to Officer James Dougherty, who found the corpse.A deputy coroner said, “The cut was very clean, like an expert did it. Carter had a police record and the body was identified through fingerprints, Pera said. He said investigators believed Carter had not been dead longer than 24 hours.Police said the instrument used to behead Carter may have been a sharp ax or a machete. Dougherty went to the rainy scene about noon after a young woman turned in a tan backpack spattered with blood. The backpack contained a black coat and two shirts.
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Franklin News Herald
Franklin, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Feb 09, 1981
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