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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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