The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • Page 57

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"It's taken a lot of time and a lot of discouragement. Now there is progress," said Paul Rudemiller, director of the community's neighborhood center. "Things are happening. I see a lot of people moving in, a lot of people fixing up their buildings," said Larry Rogers, who heads the Camp Washington business association. The city is soliciting proposals for renovating the old Washington Elementary School building on Hopple Street.

Also on the auction block is the northeast corner of Colerain Avenue and Hopple Street. The city is buying two properties to (Please see SCHOOL, Page 2) The Cincinnati EnquirerGeorge Longfellow Still unsolved is the Sept. 11,1 983, murder of millionairess Dorothea Irwin, who had been stabbed repeatedly in her Wyoming home. Detective still hot on old trail Friends, officials haven't forgotten 1983 murder in Wyoming wr) "It was a very, very brutal murder and it takes a long while to get over something like that," Lottes said. "I pursued it about as long as I possibly could and I know the Wyoming Police have devoted a considerable amount of time to it.

For me, the investigation has become a blind alley." But it's a blind alley Lottes continues to travel. Whenever he takes a trip to Naples, a Gulf Coast retirement city in which Irwin owned property, he telephones mutual (Please see PROBE, Page II) Irwin, 59, was found by a boarder slumped in the first-floor hallway of her Compton Road home. She had been stabbed repeatedly in the chest and midsection with a small, sharp blade. The murder astonished residents in this affluent bedroom community less than a dozen miles north of downtown. One of Irwin's friends declared he would never rest until those responsible were found and brought to justice.

That man, Ralph Lottes, a former finance director of Montgomery, said last week that he has not fully recovered from the horror of that fall day four years ago. BY JOHN ECKBERG The Cincinnati Enquirer It's a ritual now. Every three or four days Wyoming Detective Jack Roy turns from his desk in the basement of the police station on Oak Avenue to the nearby tan file cabinets. He slides open two or three drawers and pulls out manila folders thick with details from one of the grimmest days in Wyoming's history. Roy is in charge of the investigation into the Sept.

11, 1983, murder of millionairess Dorothea Irwin. The Cincinnati EnquirerJohn Samora Progress could help or hurt old school. Norwood woman, 100, still active E10 Porter Jr. High streak on track E12.