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12A THE PALM BEACH POST TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1997 Results encouraging; for Crohn's patients! Port Salerno yields 2nd slaying victim V. DAVID LANEStaff Photographer Brian Mansfield, 10, (right) describes finding the body. David Long, 11, (left) and Omar Medrano, 12, talk to reporters. By AFRICA RAGLAND and SALLY D. SWARTZ Palm Beach Post Staff Writers PORT SALERNO A group of elementary school children found a woman's decomposing body Monday in woods a few blocks from the trailer where the body of another slain woman was discovered Saturday.

The second body was under a plank about 20 yards into the woods on Seaward Street between Jack and Isabelita avenues, Martin sheriff Capt. William Snyder said. Detectives identified her late Monday as 26-year-old Terra Lynn Kerstein of 5526 S.E. Horizon Ave. in Port Salerno.

The children were on their way home from Port Salerno Elementary School about 2:15 p.m. when they smelled an odor and went into the woods to investi-- gate. "It looked like a statue at first," said 10-year-old Brian Mansfield, one of the students who found Kerstein. "I said, 'Oh my God, it's a dead Snyder said the body, which the children said was naked and bruised, had been there at least a for approval of cA2. About 1 million people seek treatment each year for Crohn's disease in the United States and Europe, and for many the disease is very serious, the company said.

The most common complication is blockage of the intestine. There no known cure. "The results (of the studies) are very encouraging," the statement quoted Richard MacDer-mott of the Crohn's Colitis Foundation of America as saying. "It is possible that an important new therapy for Crohn's disease may be on the horizon." The studies were conducted in 18 centers in North America and Europe over the last year and a half, Centocor said. In the first trial of 73 patients, there was an improvement after a single infusion of cA2 the level of disease activity dropped dramatically in 65 percent of patients.

I When four more infusions were given eight weeks apart, 60 percent of patients were able to achieve and maintain clinical remission, the company said. few days. Deputies identified the body found Saturday in a rundown trailer in the 5100 block of Isabelita Street in Port Salerno as Miranda Kahle-Wilson, 39. Deputies said she had lived at 2285 S.E. Cove Road in Stuart.

An autopsy performed Sunday showed Kahle-Wilson died of a blow to the head. Her body had been in the trailer for several days and was badly decomposed. Investigators Monday couldn't point to any connection between the two killings other than location, the decomposition of both bodies and the fact they were women. They are treating both deaths as homicides. Kahle-Wilson was married again in January to James E.

Wilson, 36, of Stuart. Detectives said the two had separated, and Wilson was in North Florida when he was notified of his wife's death. No one had filed a missing person's complaint. She led a troubled life, marked by arrests for drunken and disorderly conduct, custody battles with a former husband and beatings at the hands of former boy- A lem, she'd have been a real nice person. But when she got to drinking, she got real nasty." Court records show Kahle-Wilson was arrested on drunken and disorderly conduct charges four times between 1993 and 1996.

She was the victim of domestic violence in August 1994 when Joseph M. Mawhinney was charged with attempted second-degree murder after he tried to drown her by repeatedly dunking her head into a pond, court records show. Staff writer Pat Moore contributed to this story. friends, one of whom was charged with trying to kill her in 1994. "She did have a drinking problem," said L.

Don Kahle of Hobe Sound, her former father-in-law. Kahle's son, Leeon Kahle, won custody of the couple's two children, Senewa, 11, and Ambrosia, 8, in a 1995 divorce. Kahle-Wilson also has a son in Lawton, from a previous marriage, L. Don Kahle said. Kahle-Wilson visited her children on weekends, he said.

"I just saw her a couple weeks ago," he said. "She was a good mother, when she wasn't drinking. If she didn't have a drinking prob Record disputed by man who made swim in 1978 vryboc3y free tnmeo Sign up for AW Digital PCS and get up to 150 minutes of night and weekend calls each month for three months. A Pennsylvania firm is planning to file an application with the FDA this year. Renter WASHINGTON Two studies have shown encouraging results for a new treatment for Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, a biotechnology company said Monday.

The company, Centocor Inc. of Malvern, said it had tested a monoclonal antibody, or protein, in the body's immune system that has been artificially produced called cA2, over the last 18 months. "Data from both trials show that treatment with cA2 can have a beneficial effect on both the severity and number of symptoms associated with Crohn's disease," Centocor said in a statement released in Washington. It said Centocor was planning to file an application with the Food and Drug Administration this year It's SUNRISE 12681 W. Sunrise Blvd.

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His time was 34 hours and 15 minutes. Poenisch settled a $1.5 million libel suit in 1983 against the International Swimming Hall of Fame and others who had accused him of faking the feat. Maroney said her team worked with the Guinness Book of Records to make sure she met all requirements, including having an independent observer aboard an Wireless Services I 800-IMAGINE all within your reach. escort boat. In June, Maroney covered 107 miles in 3SVz hours.

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