1 Former cop denies. he killed 5 people By Leslie Guevarra Examiner staff writer REDWOOD CITY - Anthony Sully, the former policeman who allegedly turned killer, has denied charges of slaying five people, including three whose bodies were crammed into steel barrels dumped in golden Gate Park. Sully, 39, yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charges under which he could face the death penalty if convicted. The former Millbrae patrolman, clad in a red jail jumpsuit issued to maximum -security inmates, stood quietly beside his attorney, Douglas J. Gray, during the Municipal Court appearance. When asked by Municipal Court Judge Richard Gravelle whether he understood his charges, Sully politely replied, "Yes, sir," and nodded his head solemnly. Sully, who quit the force in 1974 to become a Burlingame electrical contractor, is accused of brutally killing a man and four women with the help of three other people in the multiplemurder case investigators say involved "sex and drugs.' His alleged victims, who prosecutors say were killed between April and August, in San Mateo County, are: • Michael Thomas, a 24-year-old San Francisco man with a police record of drug arrests; Thomas' 20- year-old common-law wife, Phyllis Melendez, who had a record of prostitution arrests; and Brenda Oakden, 19, a runaway from Huntington Beach who became a punk rocker. The three were shot execution-style in the back of the head. Their bodies were placed in two steel drums sealed with plastic and cement before being dumped in Golden Gate Park on April 29. Former escort service employèe Barbara Searcy, 22, of Oakland. Searcy was also shot execution style. Her body was wrapped in plastic, roped to a car and dragged about two miles on Canada Road in Woodside. The woman's remains were found Aug, 18 near the Pulgas Water Temple. Kathryn Barrett, 24, an unemployed woman from Oakland. Barrett was beaten, strangled and stabbed before her plastic body was found in South San Francisco's industrial district on Aug, 19. Sully's three alleged accomplices include two of his employees at his Burlingame firm, Keli "Angel" Burns, 23, of San Francisco was his personal assistant. She managed an apartment building Sully owns in Burlingame and posted her boss's $5,000 bail when he was arrested in May for the alleged rape, bondage and forced oral copulation of a San Francisco prostitute. Burns, who authorities say also "procured women" for Sully, has de nied charges of being an accessory to the murders of the street people. She is accused of helping her boss dispose of the bodies. Michael Francis, 20, of San Francisco was Sully's handyman. Francis, who is accused of murdering Barrett with Sully, has also denied his charges. Tina Livingston, 33, of San Francis: co, also has been accused of murdering Barrett. She was implicated in Barrett's slaying by one of the other, suspects, on to on
