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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
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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
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(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.
The girl w as put into the SUV
on Aug. 9 in Tijuana, M exico,
along with a Mexican woman who
slipped into another secret co m
partm ent.
A bout an hour later, the ve
hicle w as stopped as it crossed
the San Y sidro Port o f Entry and
the w om an was discovered. A u
thorities detained the woman and
the v eh icle’s driver, but neither
o f th em a le rte d o f fic ia ls to
Floriberta.
The girl freed herself from the
compartment but remained in the
vehicle. After being discovered, she
was taken to a hospital and found
to be in good health.
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Cuba by U.S. authorities were con to the repatriation after Havana turned three security guards from
victed and sentenced to 7 to 10 promised that those who stole the the boat and six other men who
years in prison for hijacking a gov boat would serve no longer than 10 were on board, but Cuban authori
ernment boat and trying to reach years in prison. The sentences o f ties released them.
Florida.
betw een 7 and 10 years were
U nder U.S. policy, most Cuban
Cuban exiles had criticized the handed down Aug. 12, the court migrants intercepted at sea are re
Bush adm inistration’s decision to official said.
patriated. while those who reach
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