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Serial Killer Suspect Added
to FBI’s Most Wanted
Over 19 Million Pool
Toys Recalled
Resendez-Ramirez Suspected in Eight Slayings
‘Dive Sticks’ Could Impale Children Who Land on Them
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More than 19 m illion pool toys are
being recalled because they can im
pale children who land on them, ac
cording to a report published.
The C onsum er P roduct Safety
Com mission is expected to ban so-
called‘‘dive sticks” within two weeks,
U SA Today reported. The pool toys
are hard, plastic cylinder-shaped ob
jects that stand upright on the bottom
o f pools so children can retrieve them
CPSC said that at least six children
have been rectally or vaginally im
paled by the toys, which have been
sold for about 20 years at various retail
stores. The commission recommends
that parents throw the toys away.
O ther CPSC recalls being an-
nounced today:
Snugh Front & Back Packs with
vertical “T” straps. At least 13 chil
dren have slipped through the leg
openings o f the carrier, including
one who suffered a fractured skull.
Star W ars Lightsabers. CPSC re
ceived 38 reports about such toys
with batteries that overheated. Three
users w ere burned.
Victims’ Relatives Defend
Williams
Bs D A V ID PACE
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A TLA N TA (AP) - Em anuel
Jones rem em bers his grandm other
sending him and his brother C lifford
to the grocery store that A ugust day
20 years ago, the day C lifford was
strangled and his body dum ped be
hind a Laundromat.
“She told us d o n ’t split up, w alk
together, hold hands,” Jones said,
recalling the fear that gripped A t
lanta during 1979-81 w hen police
“I blam ed it all on m y self for
years because I let him go,” said
Jones, now 33. “ I let him do that."
Partly to assuage his guilt, Jones
recently returned to A tlanta from
Chattanooga, T enn., to launch his
ow n investigation. F or w eeks, he
pored tlirough police files and inter
view ed w itnesses.
“ I found out for one that W ayne
W illiam s didn’t kill m y brother,” he
said. “There w ere others involved in
Since then, som e o f the victims
fam ilies have becom e defenders o f
the m an blam ed for killing their chil
dren, unsuccessfully asking the Jus
tice D epartm ent and the city to re
open the case.
“They d id n ’t w ant nothing else to
do w ith it after he w as convicted,”
said W illie M ae M athis, m other o f
11-year-old Jefferey M athis, one o f
the slayings not officially blam ed on
W illiam s. “They ju st pushed it all
the m u rd e r.
But the investigation o f Clifford’s
slaying officially was closed in 1982,
after W illiams was convicted o f mur
der in two o f the 29 deaths. Authorities
blamed W illiams for 22 o f the other
slayings, including Clifford s, on the
basis o f fiber evidence taken from the
victims’ bodies and matched to sources
under the rug.”
Now, some victims’ mothers are
working with W illiams' lawyers, trying
toenlisttheaidofA tlanta’sblackclergy
to persuade the new F ulton County new
district attorney, Paul Howard, to launch
in W illiams’ home and cars.
gia Suprem e Court.
investigated the slayings o f 29 young
blacks, including C lifford.
At the grocery store, Jones let
Clifford stay out front to hustle money
carrying groceries for custom ers,
w hile he w ent inside to buy the break
fast food their grandm other wanted.
He
his
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a new investigation.
In addition, an appeal filed by
W illiam s is pending before the G eor
KKK Leader Convicted in
Virginia
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H ILLSV ILLE, Va. - An all-w hite
jurv convicted a Ku Klux Kian leader
o f cross-bum ing W ednesday, reject
ing claim s by his black A CLU law
yer that he w as legally exercising his
right to free speech.
The ju ry took 25 m inutes to con
vict Barry Black o f Johnstow n, Pa.,
o f violating a V irginia law against
burning a cross to intim idate others.
Black, 51, could get up to five
years in prison.
Prosecutors said Black, an im pe
rial w izard w ith the International
K eystone K nights o f the K ian, led a
rally in w hich 18 robed and hooded
K lansm en held torches as they stood
around a burning cross. The A ugust
gathering was on private property
w ith the ow ner’s consent.
The Kian leader’s lawyer, David
Baugh o f the American C ivil Liberties
Union, argued. " T h e cross was burned
asapartoftheircerem ony.notbecause
they want to intimidate anyone. Mr.
Black has the right to express, by sign
or gesture, any feelings he has.”
B augh told the ju ry he know s the
K ian hates blacks, but " i n Am erica
w e have the right to h ate.”
Prosecutor G reg G oad said Black
has every right to freedom o f speech.
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MURPHYSBORO, 111. - A uthori
ties today charged a railroad-riding
drifter with the slayings ofa father and
daughter last week in G orham , bring
ing to eight the num ber o f slayings
linked to the suspected serial killer.
Authorities found fingerprint evi
dence directly tying Rafael Resendez-
Ramirez to the Illinois killings, Jackson
County States Attorney Mike Wepseic
said. Resendez-Ramirez is wanted for
questioning in five killings in Texas and
one in Kentucky since August 1997.
An FBI task force o f local, state
and federal officers has been hunting
for Resendez-Ramirez since authori
ties began connecting the killings
earlier this month. All eight slayings
took place on or near railroad tracks
ers,” G oad said.
He said B lack indicated his intent
to intim idate to a deputy on the way
to jail. ‘ ’ Mr. B lack said, ‘W hen is the
w hite m an going to stand up to the
blacks and M exicans in this neigh
borhood?” ’ the prosecutor said.
Less than 1 percent o f the 26,000
residents ofCarToll County in the moun
tains o f southwestern Virginia are black.
Before the case went to trial, Baugh
said he found the KKK ’ s views offen
sive but took the Kian leader on as a
client because ‘ ’we cannot afford any
erosion o f the First Amendment. ”
found on it matched the suspect’s.
Ja c k so n C o u n ty S h e r iff B ill
K ilquist said au th o rities b eliev e
Resendez-Ram irez has fled the area.
In H ouston today, FBI spokes
man Rolando M oss said Resendez-
Ram irez also has been charged with
federal unlaw ful flight to avoid pros
ecution for a burglary in Texas.
R esendez-Ram irez also has been
added to the bureau’s m ost w anted
list, and a $75,000 rew ard for infor
m ation leading to an arrest and con
viction was increased to $125,000.
"The fact h e’s on the list means
there’s a lot more resources out there,’ ’
FBI special agent Don Clark said.
A sked to provide a m otive for the
killing spree, C lark replied, " I w ish
I could tell you.”
Accused SLA Fugitive
Denied Bail
Bi JOHN N EM O
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M IN N E A P O L IS (A P ) - Bail
w as d en ied for the w o m an c a p
tu red this w eek w ho au th o rities
say is fu g itiv e S y m b io n ese L ib
era tio n A rm y m em b er K ath leen
A nn S oliah.
D istric t Ju d g e K ath leen G earin
refu sed to set bail on F rid a y . p artly
b ecau se o ne o f the ch arg es ag a in st
M s. S o liah c a rrie s a p en alty o f life
in p riso n . M s. S o liah is ac cu sed o f
p la n tin g tw o p ip e bom bs u n d er
p o lice cars in 1975; the b o m b s did
n o t ex p lo d e.
" W h a t is different here is that no
body has the right to intim idate oth
T he bodies o f G eorge M orber,
80, and his 52-year-old daughter,
C arolyn Frederick, were foundTues-
day in his hom e in the southern Illi
nois tow n o f G orham The house is
only 100 yards from railroad tracks.
Resendez-Ram irez was charged
in Illinois with first-degree m urder
and hom e invasion, authorities said
at a new s conference.
Resendez-Ramirez is accused o f
shooting M orber in the head with a
shotgun and beating Frederick in the
head with the shotgun. State and fed
eral authorities declined to reveal any
other details about the crim e scene.
M orber’s truck w as recovered
Wednesday from a school parking lot in
Cairo, about 60 miles south ofGorham.
Authorities said today that fingerprints
Ms. S o liah , 52, assu m ed a new
life in St. Paul u n d er the a lias Sara
Jane O lso n , au th o rities said. T he
su sp ect has refu sed to w aiv e e x
tra d itio n to face th e C a lifo rn ia
b o m b ch arg es. H er next h earin g
w as sc h ed u led for Ju ly 15.
H er lawyer, H ow ard Bass, did not
return phone calls seeking com ment.
H e has not acknow ledged w hether
M rs. O lson and Ms. Soliah are the
sam e person, but the FBI says finger
print analysis shows a m atch.
The 52-year-old w om an captured
W ednesday has been quietly living
as a d o cto r’s w ife, som etim e actress
and m other o f three children.
M ean w h ile, G ov. Jesse V en tu ra
said he w o u ld sig n e x tra d itio n p a
pers fo r M s. S o liah if th ey are
p re se n te d to him .
In 1974. the a n ti-g o v e rn m e n t
SLA k id n a p p ed n e w sp a p e r h e ir
ess P atty H earst. T he case to o k a
b iz a rre tw ist w h en M s. H ea rst sen t
w ord th at she h ad jo in e d th e group.
W hen Ms. H ea rst w as a rre ste d
in San F ra n cisc o in O c to b e r 1975,
she w as liv in g w ith M s. S o liah an d
h e r b ro th er. M s. H ea rst w as c o n
v ic te d o f an SLA b an k ro b b e ry
and sen t to p riso n , se rv in g fo r tw o
years b efore P resid en t C a rter c o m
m u te d h er sen ten ce.
1 Dead, Dozens Hurt in 2 Bus Crashes
B\ CADONNA M. PEYTON___________
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Two unrelated tour bus crashes in
Southern C alifornia - one in Buena
Park and the other near the M ojave
D esert - left one person dead and
several other people injured.
T he first crash S unday involved
a sig h t-seein g bus tour to T ijuana,
M exico. The C alifo rn ia H ighw ay
P atro l said a C h e v ro let M alib u
veered in front o f the bus, killing
the c a r 's driver.
T he 30 bus p assengers w ere not
injured. T he c a r’s driver, w hose
nam e w as not released, later died at
W h ittie r C o m m u n ity H o s p ita l,
M on tan ez said.
The accident happened shortly
before 9 a m. on Interstate 5. about
30 m iles southeast o f Los A ngeles,
said O fficer Gary M ontanez, a po
lice spokesm an.
“ I w as scared ,” said 13-year-old
L ali Q uezada, a bus passenger. “ I
saw the car hit the d iv id er and the
bus hit it and d ragged it all the w ay
to the oth er sid e .”
The second crash occurred more
than an hour later, near Baker, about
150 m iles northeast o f Los A ngeles.
A tour bus can y in g 37 passengers
overturned on Interstate 15 about
10:20 a.m. as it returned from Jean,
N ev., from a gam bling trip. O fficer
W illie H ailey said.
Bus driver Louis A uther Jackson,
59, o f Lynw ood, apparently lost co n
trol o f the vehicle as a tire blew out.
The bus crashed into the center d i
vider and then flipped several tim es.
Rescue w orkers rushed 12 people
to area hospitals. Tw o victim s su f
fered moderate injuries.
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