New techniques help
to solve murder case
MADRAS (AP) — The unsolved disappearance of a girl, new
forensic techniques and a misguided attempt at reward mon
ey helped authorities solves 15-yuar-old murder case and con
vict two men.
Roger Dalo Beck, 44. and John Arthur A< kroyd. 41. have been
convitied of aggravated murder for raping, stabbing and shoot
ing Kayo |ean Turner, who was attacked while jogging in the
Camp Sherman area.
A Jefferson Circuit Court Jury convicted Beck Monday night
Ackroyd was convicted lost month.
Turner. 15, of Eugene, disappeared on Christmas Eve 1978
when she went jogging in the Santiam Summit community of
Camp Sherman, where she had been vacationing with her fam
ily.
Her remains wort! found eight months later. She had been
shot and stabbed.
Ackroyd had reported setting Turner on the day she disap
peared.
Ackroyd led police to her remains eight months later, saying
he had stumbled across some of her clothing while he was walk
ing his dog.
"He was trying to go for the reward money." said Jefferson
County District Attorney Bill Hanlon. "If he could have kept
his mouth shut, this case would have gone nowhere.”
However, authorities didn't have enough evidence to proceed
and the case remained unsolved.
Hanlon credits the Linn County sheriffs office with help
ing break the case in 1990, when they began investigating Ar.k
royd again, this time in the disappearance of his stepdaugh
ter. Rachanda Pickle, 13, in Santiam Canyon
Further help in cracking the Turner case came last year, when
now forensic tests on her remains showed she had been shot
and stabbed.
"We didn't know prior to 1992 that she had been shot and
stabbed,” Hanlon said. "X-ray work done on a shirt showed a
load fragment similar to a bullet fragment imbedded in shirt
material.''
Turner's husband, Noel Turner, said Tuesday that he had not
been sure that a guilty verdict would be returned in Ber k's
trial
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Espresso man shapes appetites
PORTLAND (AH) — Away from his own Port
land espresso bar. when he is desperate for a good
espresso. Alev Fisenko asks to set* the person in
charge He hands over his business card: Espresso
Coffee Consultants, it reads Stores-Marketing
Training
"I usually charge S"50 a tla> for my consulting."
he tells the person, "hut for you. I will trade some
of my knowledge for one t up of espresso if I may
make it myself ”
Espresso has been the center of Alex Fisenko s
existence for a long time — before lattes si ented
the air in corporate offices, liefure espresso blends
Im>i ame as common as < hewing gum. before Seat
tle boasted its first espresso bar
And since 1986. the man who helped shape the
San Francisco Bay area's appetite for espresso has
made Portland his home base, quietly operating
American Espresso — o coffee and yogurt shop on
the edge of Portland State University.
(Jkrainian-bom Fisenko set his sights on enlight
ening Americans about i of foe: The bottomless cup
of dishwater — a fixture of American restaurants
— wasn't worth the water it was brewed with A
man with strong opinions and an impatience for
red tape, he approached his mission with a mix
ture of persistent e. enterprise and intelligence.
At "ifi, Fisenko has mellowed since 1969. when
he opened the 3-Cs, a pioneering espresso bar in
Berkeley. Calif It seated seven and took in 5*15 on
a typical day. Me went on to open a total of 16
plai es specializing in espresso drinks — not food,
not socializing — in Berkeley. San Francisco,
Sacramento. Portland. Ann Arbor. Mich., and
Columbus, Ohio.
Anierit an Kspresso is big and walled with win
dows, with al! tiie charm of a poster-decorated
i afeteria Professors and bac kpack-toting students
frown into textbooks and binders, a penc il in one
hand and a Si 50 tall double latte in tin* other
Fisenko eves his place likr .1 watchful mother
Cool, damp mornings — espresso-drinking weath
er — elate him And college neighborhoods suit
his open-shirt. sassy sensibility I ell Alex I isenko,
"Clive me .1 second, " and he'll let vuu know w hen
a se< Olid is up.
The silver-haired Fisenko is full of stories, and
he moves his hands like butterflies ill flight as he
tells them f'he day the polit e came to Coffee
Renaissance in Berkeley to question him about
Patty Hears!, who stopped in regularly with her
walrus uiustiH bed boyfriend anti ordered mochas.
The time 111 San ( rant isco when an elegant cus
tomer turned out to fie Dr Ernesto Illy — famed
in t offee 1 in.lot — who invited Fisenko. Ins wife,
Oksana, and their son to v isit his roasting plant in
Trieste, Italy. Opening day a year and a half ago
at his espresso bar in Ohio State University's stu
dent union, when all of 17 customers showed up.
Half were foreigners, he says with a laugh, and the
rest were Seattle natives — thrilled to find espres
so.
Fisenko entered the espresso business with a
friend m 1965. importing and selling Gaggia espres
so machines 1 le rigged a machine in the back of his
station wagon, offering sample cappuccinos to
prosper ts The usual response w as. "Tastes good,
imt no customer is going to order one "
I isenko kept at it; Ins espresso bars followed In
the fall of 197-t, Dave Olsen — now Starbucks'
senior vice president lor coffee spent a couple
‘I furnished the coffees; he
made the decisions — and the
decisions were made on taste,
not price. Almost everybody
started copying what he was
doing, right away.’
Milt Mountanus
coffee roaster
of days hanging around Coffee Renaissance, a larg
er cafe that Fispnko opened in the early 1970s on
Berkeley's Durant Avenue
While Olsen, 47, sees his business style as very
different from f'isenko's. he credits the elder man
with prodding him into taking a risk with espres
so. And in the spring of 1975, Olsen bought a (log
gia from Fisenko and opened a cafe near the Uni
versity of Washington.
Coffee Renaisssance was a bohemian place, dec
orated with burlap coffee bean bags and frequent
ed by hippies. On the menu board, next to
"Espresso — 35 cents." Fisenko wrote: "If you
don't know what it is. don't order it. Try a cap
puccino." The message struck some people as
amusing, others as unfriendly. Either way. the spot
was a turning point for him.
"The lines were around the block in Berkeley to
his espresso businesses." recalls Milt Mountanos,
a third-generation San Franc isco roaster who han
dled the only supply of fancy green beans in the
United States in the 1970s. "I furnished the cof
fees: he made the decisions — and the decisions
were made on taste, not price. Almost everybody
started copying what he was doing, right away."
In 1981, when Fisenko’s landlord took over
Espresso Experience —one of his Berkeley cafes
Fisenko decided to break away from university
neighborhoods. A reluctant leasing agent agreed to
rent him a space in the heart of San Francisco's
business district “These aren’t a bunch of hip
pies.' he warned Fisenko.
At that time. lattes am) cappuccinos were 65
(flits. His iirst dav at Km hart ad era Center. Kisenko
pulled in StH On the se< and day. $20.
On l)a\ i. he hung signs nil over the building,
advertising the newest Espresso experience.
"Listen to what happened." says Kisenko,
chortling. " Those three-piece guys, these women
in blouses and high heels and lipstick, come up
and sav. 'Hoy. Alex, remember me? 1 used to hang
around with you when I was going to Berkeley and
now I am a finam ial adviser,’ or a lawyer And
those people were desperate for espresso.”
In 1986, he moved to Portland and sold his
Kmbarcadero Center business. The Northwest, he
believed, was ripe for espresso.
A year later. Boyd Coffee Co. temporarily hired
Kisenko to set up new coffee stores in Portland and
Seattle Boyd’s roastenaster worked with him on a
blend to serve in American Espresso. And the
company recently bought one of Fisenko's Ann
Arbor coffee bars
Kisenko dreams of the day when it's possible to
stroll into a Denny's in Iowa and get a decent
espresso. "Then I know." he says, "my life’s mis
sion will have been achieved."
UCLA cited for its crematory’s fumes
l.OS ANGELES (Al>) — UCLA
was cited earlier this year because
its campus crematory was send
ing fumes into medical school
offices, it was reported today.
State investigators cited the
university in August for operat
ing an improper venting and
exhaust system and also for vio
lating worker safety regulations,
the Los Angeles Times said.
The incinerator was used by
the UCLA. School of Medicine
to cremate cadavers. It was shut
down last week following the
discovery of bloody scalpels,
syringe needles and other haz
ardous waste among cremated
remains that were to have Inteii
buried in Santa Monica Bay.
The captain of the boat dis
covered the waste when a bag of
human remains accidentally
broke open.
UCLA officials called the mix
ing accidental, but investiga
tions into possible civil and
criminal violations are under
way.
The August citations by the
California Occupational Safety
and Health Administration said
emissions from the UCLA cre
matory were entering medical
school offices
The university suul the bodies
were being burned at tempera
tures lower than necessary to
kill bacteria and eliminate
odors, the Times said.
"As far as we know, the repair
of the incinerator took care of
that." David Meyer, the medical
school's faculty research coordi
nator. said Monday.
Hut Lianne Lund, student
affairs officer at the medical
school, said employees reported
headaches and nausea from
fumes coming from the venting
system as late as Oct. 20.
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