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stioiMsthnrsclay 3A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Apr.73, 1987 Jailed Man To Be Charged With Murder Of Indiana Girl profile was constructed, and police departments ail across the country have been sent information about him. "There's been a lot of response," Roussin said. Roussin added that Brown's three children and five stepchildren all had been accounted for safely. The case of the decapitated girl here keeps continues to haunt Roussin and other detectives, who have spent countless hours on the investigation.

The unidentified girl's body was found in the basement of a vacant house at 5635 Clemens Avenue on Feb. 28, 1983. She had been sexually attacked. Her head was never recovered. St.

Louis detectives have tried to talk to Brown about the girl, but "he has no comment about her," Roussin said. the Marlon County state's attorney. Brown is charged in Indianapolis with killing Kimberly K. Campbell, 9. Her nude body was found Aug.

27, 1980, in a vacant house that previously had been owned by Brown's grandfather. The girl had been bound with cords, sexually molested, beaten and strangled. The statement of a witness who had seen Brown and the girl together provided the new information that led to the murder charge against Brown, police said. Indianapolis authorities said they also want to question Brown about the strangulation of a 15-year-old girl whose body was found in a creek on April 13, 1985, and the fatal stabbing of a 27-year-old prostitute whose body was found in the White River on Aug. 9, 1985.

The river flows through Indianapolis. Roussin was given the job of looking into Brown's activities. An FBI But the murder charge was dropped when prosecutors realized that a spouse's testimony could be stricken in court when the victim was at least 18 years old. After Brown's arrest for the slaying of Janet Perkins, he was Interviewed again about Ford's killing. He was recharged after saying that she had stabbed herself and that he had strangled her in self-defense.

"Although he admitted to killing Janet and made a statement about Ford, he wouldn't talk about his past activities In Indiana," said St Louis Homicide Detective John Roussln. "He definitely made it clear that be did not want to go back there," Rous-sin said. "We figured there must be more on him there than the child molestations." Indianapolis police then began go-, lng through their unsolved murder cases. As a result a murder charge Against Brown was filed Monday by wanted on six counts of child molestation. Records show that Brown was married in Indianapolis in 1979 and again in St Louis in 1983 without having been divorced.

Brown confessed to luring Janet Perkins into his house and then strangling her, police said. He said the killing had taken place while he was un-der the influence of PCP phencyclidine, a popular street drug known as "whack." Thomas Turner was a suspect in the killing of Ford, whose body was found March 7, 1985, In her apartment in the 3500 block of Washington Boulevard. She had been stabbed in the throat with a butcher knife and strangled. Turner was charged with murder in an at-large warrant after his wife provided police with details in the Ford case that only the killer or someone he had told would know. tified girl who was decapitated in 1983.

Investigators in other cities also are looking into a potential link between Brown and crimes in their jurisdiction, authorities here said. Police said Brown had been In 35 states in the last 10 years. Brown, '33, Is being held without bond in the City Jail on charges of killing Janet Perkins, 9, and Synetta Ford, 19. Janet Perkins' body was found Oct 25 in a dumpster in the alley at the rear of Brown's house In the 4000 block of Enright Avenue. The girl had lived nearby, in the 4100 block of Del-mar Boulevard.

Brown had been living on Enright Avenue for three years under the name of Thomas Turner. A fingerprint check showed that Turner's true name was Vernon Brown; other checks showed that he was a fugitive from Indianapolis, where he was Reassessment Plan 1 i Unfair, Official ays By Bill Bryan Of th Post-Dispatch Staff A man charged with two killings in St the strangulation of a 9-year-old girl and the stabbing of a 19- year-old woman has been charged In Indianapolis with murdering a 9-year-old girl there In 1980, police say. Detectives from Indianapolis are scheduled to arrive here today to inform the suspect, Vernon Brown, of the new charge against him and to Brown question him about the killings of a teen-age girl and a woman in their city. The murder charge in Indiana rekindles interest in a highly publicized but unsolved case here of an uniden if) Anti-apartheid activist Sam Frank Volkmann, Washington Divestment A group of Washington University students began a vigil Wednesday outside the chancellor's offic to protest the investment of school endowment money In companies that do business with South Africa. The group planned to stay overnight.

Sam Diener, a spokesman for Action Against Apartheid, said that the group would make a formal divestiture proposal next Wednesday Cml. Gary BohnPost-Dispatch director, outside the chancellor's office on Wednesday. Diener and his group were to spend the night in the building. TV-'- 1 University available showed that as of June 30, 1985, the university had invested $97,395 in companies with South African operations. Diener gave Volkmann a paper key, which he said symbolized the unlocking of the prison of apartheid.

Diener said the group would occupy itself overnight with discussions, singing and the distribution of symbolic keys to other university officials. estimates are accurate. The city's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority bought The Arena for $15 million $3 million of It in cash In December from the Harry Ornest family. 'Rate and terms may change dally without (r. Washington chancellor and the university's director of public relations.

Although Volkmann said the university had taken a neutral stand on political issues, Diener said that such a position amounted to "institutionalized racism." Diener, a junior majoring in peace studies and education, said that university investments linked to South Africa totaled $100 million. Volkmann said the latest figures Arena Budget Predicts $2.32 Million Profit notice COMPARE CIS TO COMPETITION By Karen L. Koman Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The city-owned Arena is expected to make a profit of $2.32 -million after expenses in the next year most of which will be used to help pay off Its purchase debt. The projected profit Is based on gross revenue estimated at $5.75 million for the fiscal year beginning May 1. The estimate assumes an Increase in attendance, concession sales and at least 35 additional bookings at The Arena.

Those figures are Included in a budget for The Arena that was presented to board directors of the Community Facilities Corp. late day. The non-profit corporation was set up by the city to oversee operations at The Arena. Several city agencies will have to approve The Arena's budget. cil's proposal calls for 'increasing 1985 assessments by tne amounc oi increase in the consumer price index for housing in 1985 and last year.

The council took action because of a major political controversy over preliminary assessment notices mailed earlier this month by the county assessor's office. Many thousands of property owners said the figures made no sense and were far too high. State Son. Wayne Goode, D-Nor-mandy, observed that the council's decision was "Ironic" given comments last week County Council Chairman H.C. Milford of Webster Groves, R-5th District "Milford was chastising House members for jumping on the political bandwagon," Goode said.

"It looks to me as if the County Council is holding up the other axle." Goode also said It appeared to him to be legally questionable whether the council could make the change in the assessment methods. But state Rep. Francis "Bud" Barnes, R-Kirkwood, said he believed that the council's action "probably is legal" provided the council did not tamper with the appeal process. Barnes said that the pegging of the assessments to the consumer price Index involved using "arbitrary figures," but he said the current reassessment process Inthe county was also arbitrary and probably less accurate. Barnes said that in his opinion, the county administration's "big mistake, both professionally and politically, was to Ignore all the work done up until 1985.

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"Politically, this may be a solution to the problem," Smith said. "Politically they have fire burning, and they will have to put it out But I would hope any action like this would be viewed only as temporary." Smith said that some property owners would get a benefit but that others would get a disadvantage if assessments for all properties are increased by the same percentage. People whose property has increased rapidly in market value more than the amount of the percentage increase would pay less Iq taxes than they should. But their taxes, Smith said, "will be paid by others" whose property has not increased as much in value. Robert Coleman, another state tax commissioner, said that a flat percentage Increase would fail to reflect figures of real estate dealers showing that properties in different parts of the county are Increasing in value at different rates.

The assessments, by statute, are supposed to be a percentage of market value. The commissioners' comments fol-jwed a decision by a County Council committee Tuesday to order a recalculation of property assessments. The decision Is being put In the form of legislation, which will be Introduced today and probably will be passed today. The assessments for this year are supposed to reflect market value of property as of Jan. 1, 1987.

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Diener said Action Against Apartheid had about 10 active members. Fifteen students, accompanied by Dan Kohl, a biology professor, had assembled by 1:30 p.m. Wednesday outside the chancellor's office. They debated university policy with Fred Volkmann, associate vice Bruce Sommer, the city's conven tion director, said Wednesday that the Arena and its events would generate $1 million in taxes for the city and $1.08 million for the state of Missouri during the coming fiscal year. Expenses for The Arena are estimated at $3.43 million of the $5.75 million grossed.

Among the larger expenses in the budget are $663,000 for administrative operations, $784,000 for personnel and $455,000 for insurance. Although Sommer calls the $2.32 million "profit," none of it will come back to the city. Instead, the board will spend $2.26 million to pay Its annual debt service, Including interest and principal, and amortization on the building. Sommer said that The Arena is on an accelerated repayment schedule that will allow it to pay off almost half of its $12 ble for reorganization. A residents committee is gathering signatures on petitions to set up a board of freeholders that would draft a reorganization plan.

McNary had hoped to put the plan on the ballot on Nov. 1. McNary has been pushing the Nov. 1 date because he had agreed to an election next February on a proposal to Incorporate Chesterfield. If approved by voters, that incorporation would drastically deplete the county government's finances, he has said.

Clark addressed the Municipal League's committee for nearly two Help Find Woman parked behind a nightclub in La-, clede's Landing. The woman, Gail Sherry King, 43, of Essex, was last reported seen at a shopping mall in Cape Girardeau, about 12:30 p.m. Monday. St. Louis police are asking that any-.

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But the faster repayment schedule means the city will have little money only about $60,000 next year for future capital Improvements at The Arena. The city will spend $700,000 on painting and renovation this year. Sommer said that If earnings continued to grow, The Arena would be able to afford to make any needed Improvements. The Arena also may have to tap into the city's restaurant tax money to help it over a cash flow hump this fall, said former Mayor John Poelker a member of the board of directors. The Arena may have to borrow $1 million to help with a major principal and interest payment due in December, he said.

But both Poelker and Sommer say The Arena should be able to repay the city in this fiscal year if its budget hours, giving a strong pitch for a reorganization that would incorporate all of the county and reduce the number of municipalities. He stressed that the county's proposal was a concept rather than a plan. Clark said that a reorganization could address inequities in finances around the county. "Clayton uses granite for its curbs. Other municipalities can't afford to fix potholes," he said.

Clark also tried to convince the group that the reorganization plan was not a means for McNary to extend his powers, as many municipal leaders have charged. "This is not kingdom building for St Louis County," he said. "Quite the contrary. St. Louis County would be reduced in Its size and authority." If the reorganization took effect, he said, municipalities would handle much of the rezoning In areas that are now unincorporated; those matters now go before the County Planning Commission.

Thus, Clark said, his own department would be slashed In half. "Why should we be in favor? We have to take a look at a bigger goal," he said. The municipal leaders asked Clark to research the effect of reorganization on the income of the county government. Roger Zlmmermann, the mayor of Glendale, said the county had opened itself up to suspicion by opposing suggestions from municipalities on who should be appointed to a board of freeholders. He was referring to the Municipal League's request for state legislation that would ensure that any board appointed would reflect municipalities' views.

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