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Continued from Page 1 Hannelore Schloo said of police and detectives. “It's hard to do your job and solve a murder from behind a desk. “One has to wonder, she said, fingering her cane as she sat by a table covered with newspaper often about her daughter's kill me often wish I'd have ne w means to hire a private inves tor for something like this. It seems like these people are sit ting behind their desk and mean while the murderer gets farther and farther away. A bubbly young woman with a determined streak, Susan Schloo was working two jobs to afford her tar and a future apartment. In fact, a future husband was also on Susan’s horizon. She was to be engaged to her boyfriend, John Lanny, during a Planned romantic weekend at the New Jersey shore, said a close friend of Susan’s who asked to remain anonymous. But the romantic occasion nev er happened. Susan was killed a week earlier Sunny confided to Susan’s friend a short time later that he had bought an engagement ring for Susan. She said she never saw the ring. “All I know is that he was going to give her an engagement ring,” said the friend, a childhood chum of Susan's. ‘‘They went out for about a year. Susan drove him Places and paid” his way quite often. “He didn't have a car and he didn’t really work for long.’* But Susan's desire to work hard at two jobs, her friends and acquaintances said, made up for Lunoy'’s apparent lack of ambi tion. Even if she wasn‘t thrilled with her newly acquired part time job. Ht was her second day on the job, and cleaning offices in the evening at Phytec Inc. in the Ma sons Mills Business Park as a second job, left Susan a bit nerv ous, explained her sister Linda. Phytec, an information clear ing house for physicians, was located in the rear of the business center in an isolated area sur rounded on three sides by woods. As her parents later learned, it was no place for a young woman to work alone. “Looking at the place after ward, if we would've known she was there, well, we wouldn't have wanted her to work there,” said Susan’s father, Walter Schioo, whose face exuded pain as he spoke of his youngest daughter. “It’s isolated as hell. * Susan Schioo's parents, a warm, compassionate couple born and raised in Germany, said goodbye to their daughter on July 23, 1985, as she left for her secre tarial job in Horsham. It was the last time her parents would see her. At midnight, after her parents became worried that Susan hadn't come home, police notified the Schipps that Susan's car was found burned in a wooded area in Northeast Philadelphia. Only shell of the car remained. The following morning, the Schicos reported their daughter Missing to Upper Southampton police. Walter Schico found the only piece of physical evidence un- damaged by the arson: receipts from an automatic teller ma chine, unburned and littered on the ground a short distance from the car. The evidence did not prove fruitful. The receipts were covered with fingerprints from Walter Schloo and several police officers who handled them, said one police official. Other on the receipts, how ever, remain unidentified. On July 29, five days after her car was found, Susan’s decomposed body was found, ful ly clothed and face down, follow ing an extensive search of the area. She was identified later by dental records. Bi A source close to the investiga ion said Philadelphia police may have hampered the investigation by allowing the burned car to sit for two days before having it impounded and combed for evi dence. Capt. Bruce Forstater of the 7th Police District, the jurisdiction which the car was found, said he and his officers have no knowl edge of that case, since they began working that district six months after the incident. He said he replaced a police captain who retired and brought with him ‘‘all new men. In the borough of Bryn Athyn, with a population of 1,000 resi dents in 1.3 square miles, Police Chief F. Mason Adams said he has been particularly perplexed by the Schloo slaying. He said he has found no apparent motive for the murder of the attractive, young blond woman who had graduated from William Tennent High School. “It's not so much who did it but why, Mason said. “She has an excellent reputa tion, goes to her job and suddenly she disappears and her body appears about a mile away from work. We don't even know if she was abducted from her job or whether she went out after work. This whole thing is baffling. “Susan was such a nice girl and a hard worker,” he said. “It just doesn’t make sense. ” Stanley Kadelski, Montgomery County homicide detective, said he continues to investigate the killing by reinterviewing people associated with Susan and by checking the background of other criminals convicted of crimes that might be similar to tt Schoo case. He said, however, that the mo recent Slayings take preceden over unsolved, older hamnesses. “if someone saw her talk it with someone outside’ Phyt, the day she was killed, he sai d they may not have thought an thing. Five days later when a body was found, a possible w ness may have been down to shore, up the mountains, we knows? When they came bac it’s too late.
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Mon, Mar 23, 1987
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