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The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 19

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Indianapolis, Indiana
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www 7 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1972 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PAGE 19 4 freeway Phantom9 Feared Back On Grisly Job; Suit Ruling Issued By Court Of Appeals Police Find 7lh D.C-Area Schoolgirl Murdered I Introducing the gl' custom fitted jff3r- If TOUPEE if I I of washable Monacrylic P'" J) I Looks like your own hair JZf most of the time," said her father, Leon Williams, a corrections officer at the D.C, reformatory. Rewards totaling $9,000 have been offered for Information leading to the arrest and conviction of tlte person or persons involved. Police emphasize there may be more than one "freeway phantom." i Forrestvillo, Md. (AP) A seventh young schoolgirl from has been mur-dered In a series of similar slaylngs which police attribute to a mysterious "Freeway Phantom." Investigation of the murder of Diane Williams, 17, continued with FBI assistance yesterday as detectives try to decipher the bizarre similarities between her strangling and the six murders last year of other five of whom had a first name beginning with the letter D. ''THE WILLIAMS mur fits Vthe same pattern as the murders last year," said Lt.

Richard Stallings of the Maryland State Pplice at Forrest-' ville, a Prince Georges Coun ty community near the Ana-costia Freeway from south-east Washington into suburban Maryland. Those earlier murders occulted over a evi-month period and all Involved southeast Washington girls whose bodies were taken to an area near the freeway, thus prompting police to attlrbute the slayings to a "Freeway Phantom." The Williams girl was found "in the same i 1 1 Stallings noted, but an autopsy later in the day revealed that unlike several of the earlier victims she had not been sexually molested. INVESTIGATING detectives from the D.C. police, who emphasized there is no definite link yet between the Williams murder and the others, nevertheless said, "Because of the similarities, you have to follow it up." Of the six, girls who were slain last year, four were strangled, one was shot, and the sixth body was so decomposed when found no cause of death could be determined. D.C.

police assigned 30 to 40. detectives to assist Maryland police and FBI in the investigation, which is including a door-to-door inquiry in Miss Williams' neighborhood. AN' llTH-GRADEIt at Bal-lou High School, Miss Williams was described by her family as a quiet girl who was the eldest of six children. "I knew where she was People with damage claims against the government for negligence should not be bound by the requirement that they first get an administrative decision on the claim, if by so doing they would lose their right to bring suit because of the statute of limitations, the Indiana Court of Appeals decided yesterday. The court's First District remanded a case of Lawrence Circuit Court on a claim by Frederick A.

and Anna Mae Krumme against the Washington County Board of Commissioners and others. JUDGE If. Wayne Baker in the lower court had decided that pleas in abatement in the cases could be construed as motions to dismiss. He entered summary judgments in the two cases, and the appeal decision yesterday sets aside those judgments. The commissioners had maintained that since the claims to.

the county commissioners and the lawsuits were filed the same day, and the commissioners only later disallowed the claims, the lawsuits were invalid. THE APPEALS court pointed out that the lawsuit, based on a 1964 abrupt halt of a car at the site of a missing county bridge, was filed two days before the statute of limitations would bar action. There then would have been no remedy under the law, 1 (E3Wm Prout To He Speaker The Weslside Republican Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Indiana National Bank branch office at 2821 West Washington Street. Joseph E.

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