Slasher director
murdered, buried
under his home
I-OS ANGFI.KS (At') AI
Adamson, a li-movle director
whose films ini:luti«d Five
Bloody Grows mid Satan's
Sadists was found murdered and
buned underneath his house
The body of the ftli-vear-old
Adamson was discovered
Wednesday in Indio, about ir>0
milt’s southeast of I os Angeles.
Indio police said Monday
Police iviued a hoinii id<* arrest
warrant for a contractor who had
!h*i‘h living at Adamson s borne
while remodeling il Fred Fill
ford 48, traveled to Florida about
a week before Adamson was
reported missing, police said.
Police have not established a
motive for the slaving or a i arise
of death An autopsy was sched
uled for Wednesday
Adamson’s brother contm ted
police after tfie dins tor was miss
ing for five weeks After exam
ining the const rut tion work at Ins
home, police took up the floor
ing and unearthed the bod\
The son of a filmmaker. Adam
son made his reputation with dri
vo in rnovios in the I Otitis and
'70s, most of them with horror or
science-fiction themes.
Among his better-known cult
works was the 1071 spoof Drnr
uln vs Frankenstein. the last
movie made hv I on Chaney Jr
i le also dins tod Hell s Bloody
Devils. HI nod of [)m<ulus Casth>,
Horror of the Blood Monsters,
The Female Bunch, The Bruin of
Blood. The Nought), Stewardess
es and Stud Broun, among mam
others.
Survivors include his brother
and two sisters.
Miss Delaware is a
four-time loser in
Miss NJ. pageant
Cl OKCl TOWN Del (AIM
A four-time loser in the Miss
New Jersey pageant is final!)
than fiction
going U) the Miss America
pageant — representing
! Vlaware
After weeks of a< < ovations l»
(wo losers in (In* slain contest
regarding her eligibility Mm helte
Harris released a packet of do<
nmejits Monday to prove she met
the six month resident \ require
mom
The I lelaware flap marked the
(hirtl ret cn! Miss Ament a t on
troversy
In Virginia. Andrea itallengev
was dethroned amid claims she
nsaggnrnlnd her credentials In
Maryland. Linda Ym*h was
stripped of her litli* as first run
ner-up after pageant offit nils
questioned whether she was a
resident of Washington. 1)X.
Thomas Harnett, state pageant
attorney, said the losers who
challenged Harris' June s victo
ry need to let it go and "go on
with their lives "
Miss Harris won fair and
square and she should tie allowed
to enjoy her victory Instead, she
has Us'ii continually under attai k
situ e the very moment her sells
lion was announced." he said
Miss America contestants must
lie either a full-time student or
have worked full tune in the state
lor six months Or, they must
have lived in the state for sis
months prior to winning a pre
liminary pageant another
requirement of the national orga
nization
At a news conference in
Georgetown, where Harnett's
oflii e is located. Harris released
copies of her lease, utility and
college hills, and the rental truck
control l her father signed to
mov e her into her apartment in
Newark. Del., from Marmora N |
Harris, who enrolled in con
tinuing education classes al the
1 'Diversity of Delaware, denied
she moved to Delaware |ust to
compete in the pageant in
Atlantic: ( itv wh**iv Miss Amt?
i< *i rovviustl 1 f» Mar
ns, ^4. gratiuattni front Dukr
l Ittivonilv
1 movmi to Delaware? to start
going to ami tr\ mg to got
ttsosi’ riassc’s so ! t ouid enrol! in
an M B A (>r ^?atn " she satd
Italy now trying
to shake image of
'pinching Italian'
ROM! i.\f’ Hi.' Italian male
who pinched women'* behind*
is a vanishing species
Far (nun evtuM l. though, is the
breed who starts and pesters,
in,iking if i,tt>*n mu omfortable •
!■> foreign, female anil solo, e,st>e
i'.»a 11 > in till' slo\v to < ll.ingir
south
With spring and th»i first wave
of tourists, young men known as
"pappagalli" (parrots) }n>r< )i on
Rome's Spanish Stops or flit
around the Naples train station
repeating pit kup linos in broken
hnglish What tunc, please'
"You smoke 1 Mam <• tonight "
Voting Italian man. vielding to
t hanging sot ml morns, am loss
likelv to lav a hand on a female
visitor than in years past, hut tin*
stereotype of tin1 pint lung Italian
tin's hard Sotmi t ities in an
effort to erase that reputation and
attrai t mom tourists are trying
to help make women traveling
alone feel a! ease
Several plat es in ( ainpama,
the region around Naples, .ire
offering freebies to women, such
as night fishing ext ursions and
theater to kets l.ikevv ise, a town
near the Greek rums at 1’aestum
called Agropoli is letting women
into plays, variety shows and oth
er entertainment for free
Perhaps the biggest effort is
lining made in the southern port
city of Salerno, where a disco
owner begun organizing volun
teers mostly men -to escort
singles on outings to sui h plm es
as Capri's Blue Grotto
Ihe group, (.ailed Uentle
man. advertises In the Salerno
tourist offic e ami mate h**-s tourists
with volunteers based on age.
interests and language, said
Annapaoia Apple tda. who works
for the* group
Cockroach proves
no wildcat’s been
stalking England
LONtXJN I \P) Believers in
the H* .is! of Ho.Imin Moor held
iij> i skuii ns proof (hill « lug i .it
vs.is kilting tivrsUn k A . in k
roach prin t'd thorn wrong
A timtn of entomologists and
xoologiat* from tin- Natural His
Ion Mutu'utti in 1 notion studied
tho skull who h vs.ts found on
tin. moor m Conivv.ill two weeks
ago. and released tlii’ir findings
on Monday
• llu' skull belonged ii* .1
young main Indian leopard
• Ihe i .it had pro!, diiv (lev er
tw«n near Hodmiti Moor
I he i rifii al i |ue inside the
skull was an egg < use from a Irop
a al i i* kru.ii h that does not exist
in r.ngland
l'he com loatoti in ih.it this
particular leopard skull t .mm to
(Cornwall onlv hv human agent v
niul it in most unlikely th.it it h.is
heen in thi’ river where it was
recently discovered for any
apprts ltihle length of time," the
report said.
Douglas Richardson assistant
director of mammals at the l.un
don Zoo. viid the findings didn't
shake his lielief that hig cats are
on the loose in southwestern Kng
land
"The evidence that I have
examined over the years, coupled
with the first-hand observations
ol some very credible witnesses,
leaves me in rio doubt aliout their
existence he said
tn July, Britain's Ministry of
Agrii ulture said six months ot
research had found no evidence
that there are big i als on Bodmin
Moor Hie ministry said video
tapes showing cats prowling the
area appeared to be pit tores of
domestic pets
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