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®t|e jßortlanb ®b»eruer A ugust 20. 2003 Missing Seattle Teenager Victim of The Green River Killer (AP) — Remains found at a wooded site in western W ashing ton have been identified as those o f a 16-year-old girl who has been listed as a victim o f the Green River killer since she disappeared in Oc- • tober 1983. The skeletal remains o f Pammy Annette A vent o f Seattle were found last weekend near Enumclaw, about 35 miles from Seattle, by de tectives on the Green River Task Force. The cause and manner o f death were pending, the King County medical exam iner’s office said in releasing her name Monday. T he rem ains were identified through dental records. A vent’s records were already on file with the W ashington State Patrol miss ing persons unit, allowing expe dited confirmation. She was last seen Oct. 26,1983, after leaving her home in Seattle. A vent’s mother, Velma Harris, re ported her missing four days later. She had been listed as a missing person on the task force’s official Page AS IL Mexico Accused of Police Abuse Rights group says officers use torture and false evidence Pammy Avent A P )— Mexican pclice used fal failed to live up to its responsibili mony o f former investigators and sified evidence and torture in in ties under Mexican and interna activists. vestigating a decade o f sexually tional law. We are seeing (killings “ In many cases, police arrest motivated killings in the rough bor of) young, p o o r’women with no people, torture them, get confes der city o f Ciudad Juarez, accord power, whose deaths have no po sions, and then build a case around ing to a report by Amnesty Interna litical cost for the authorities.” , that insteadof investigating,” Kahn tional. said. T h e re p o rt P r o s e c u to r s said police in the offer slightly dif northern state o f ferent num bers Chihuahua have on the slayings, been slow to in s a y in g th e re vestigate 137 kill have been 108 in g s o f young unexplained ho w o m en sin c e m ic id e s s in c e 1993, mishandled 19 93,93 o f them e v id e n c e and a p p a re n tly in —Amnesty International Secretaiy-General Irene Kahn failed tocatch the volving a sim ilar real killers, the London-based hu Bodies have been misidentified, pattern o f sexual abuse or m utila man rights group said evidence has been contaminated tion. “Thekillers are still roaming free,” through mishandling, and autop C hihuahua state prosecutors Amnesty International Secretary- sies have been inadequate in some have denied the torture allegations General Irene Kahn told a Mexico o f the cases, said the report, which and promised to investigate other City news conference. cited the group’s own investiga accusationsof mistreatment orm is- “The federal government has tion, case records and the testi- handling o f evidence. In many cases, police arrest Green River list. that she will finally be coming At least 49 women are believed home." to have died in the 1980s Green S h e riffs Detective Kathleen River serial killings. A vent’s body Larson said the department will was one o f seven that had not been continue to pursue all o f the Green located. River cases. The case takes its “Today is important for Pammy name from the south King County Avent’s family,” King County Sher river w here the first victims were iff Dave Reichert said in a state found. ment. “What the Green River Task Larson would not say whether Force has set out to do from the Gary Ridgway, who is charged with beginning is to bring a measure o f aggravated first-degree murder in closure to the families and justice the deaths o f seven G reen River for the victims, victims, directed authorities to look “A young girl lost her life and where they found A vent’s remains today we were able to tell her family last Saturday. people, torture them, get confessions, and then build a case around that instead o f investigating. Do N ot C all D eadline A pproaching Stopping unwanted telemarketing calls requires action Oregon’s NoCall law has been in effect for two and one-half years with more years with more than 179,000 residents in its database. The National Do Not Call Registry, modeled on states programs, be gan registering consumer in July. In October, the Federal Trade Commission will begin enforcing the National Do Not Call Registry State Attorney G eneral Hardy for five years unless the number is Myers is reminding local residents earlier disconnected or is deleted about the approaching Aug. 31 by consumers. After five years, con deadlinetoregisterontheN ational sumers may review registrations. Do Not Call list. Right now, the Oregon No Call In signing up, consumers should list and the federal registry are sepa see a reduction in the number o f rately maintained records. Conse unwanted telemarketing calls into quently, Oregonians are required their homes and on their cell phones, to sign up for both lists should they Myers also announced the filing o f want full protection o f both state 15 lawsuits against violator o f and federal laws. O regon’s current No Call Law. However, House Bill 3329, which is still awaiting final legislative ac tion, would automatically put Or egon no call subscribers on the national registry and those on the national list on the state list. U nder the plan, O regonians would enjoy the protection ofboth laws for free. “Without this measure, our pro gram will perish and my office wi 11 not have the resources to enforce the new federal program ,” Myers said. Oregonians wanting to register for the national Do Not Call list may call 1-888-382-1222,orresister onlineat DONOTCALL.GOV. For more information about O regon’s no call, the Attorney General ’sconsumer hotline at 503- 229-5576, toll-free at 1-877-877- 9392 or at www.doj.state.or.us. Singers Without Clothes, Oh My! BEEN FAKED OUT BY Demonstrators march in front o f City Hall in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico protesting the cancellation of the play “Naked Boys Singing" at the city-run Tapia Theatre. The musical was cancelled twice after the board o f the theatre said the show could compromise the theatre's good name and prestige. The performance was moved to the private El Josco Theatre. (AP photo) Girl Spends 2 Days in Seized SUV FREE CHECKING? WE CAN HELP (A P )— A 13-year-old Mexican girl who attempted to sneak into the United States in a secret com part ment o f an SUV spent nearly two days in the vehicle after it was seized by U.S. immigration authorities at a border crossing. Floriberta Jim enez Torres o f the Mexican state o f Oaxaca was dis covered in the vehicle Monday morning by a worker at the federal storage facility where the SUV was stored. She spent 42 hours in the vehicle alone, without food of w a ter on one o f the sum m er's hottest weekends, with temperatures in the 90s. “It’s a miracle that she’s alive and well,” said Alberto Lozano, spokesman for the Mexican consu late in San Diego. 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