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St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 38

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ji.Luuia ruai-uiarAiun THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, W' Mother Should Have Stay Tuned TV Show Locates 'Lost' St. Charles Woman Great Bate. Great Yield. Guaranteed. By Nordeka English Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Connie Jo Cox of St.

Charles is a fan of the television program "Unsolved Mysteries," but she missed a recent show in favor of an early bedtime. Big mistake. If she had watched, Cox would have found the answer to a mystery of her own whatever happened to the children she last saw 27 years ago. Her daughter, Gay Lee MaCMaster of Elk Rapids, now 30, had been trying to find her mother, and her search was the subject of one of the show's segments. As a result of the program, MacMas-ter was given a list of 31 people who had called the show with tips.

On Monday she found Cox, who lives in St. Charles. On Wednesday, Cox said, "It was a shock. A great big shock. Oh, it was a good one.

I blubbered all over the place." Cox said she last saw her daughter when Gay Lee was 3 and her son, Johnny, when he was 5 months old and she and her first husband, Jim Rutledge, were splitting up. "He took the kids away from me," Cox said. No one would tell her where they were, she said. About 10 years later, she learned her former husband's whereabouts. But then, he told her he had remarried and that the children wanted nothing to do with her.

"I figured, they're young enough, and they've got a stepmother," she said. "They're happy, and I'm not going to start interfering." Cox had resigned herself to their separate lives. She married again and raised two of her second husband's children from a previous marriage. In June, she was married for a third time, to Donald Cox. She works for an agency that cares for the elderly, cleaning their houses, fixing lunches and grocery shopping.

The call from her daughter came out of the blue. Gay Lee MacMaster's reaction? Cox said, "My son-in-law said he had two blubbering women, one on each end of the phone." MacMaster said of her conversation with her mother, "Her main concern was that I understood that she did not abandon me. I said, 'Believe me, Mom, I do not hold you I needed that void in my life filled, and it's filled, and we're going to go on." She said the next step was to bring her mother to Michigan for a reunion, which may be televised by "Unsolved Mysteries." "I It was a shock. A great big shock. Oh, it was a good one.

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The magazine is being distributed across the country. Publisher Joe Strahl, an entrepreneur who worked for five years at a prison concessionary in his hometown of Danville, 111., says the magazine's focus is on prisoners' rights and interests. "We will try to expose the inequities in the corrections industry," he said. "And it is an industry." The first edition contains a column about Manson by Strahl, who earlier had said he would try to get an interview with the infamous cult leader whose group murdered actress Sharon Tate and seven others in 1969. Manson is in prison in California and has been denied parole numerous times.

Strahl is in New York this week promoting Prison Life, said Harry Church of Scott Magazines, a medium-sized publisher in New York that is backing the venture. Volume one, which is dated January 1993, contains articles, letters to the editor from inmates across the country, photographs, columns, book reviews and advertisements. "It's a slick magazine. It looks like Time or Newsweek, that kind of thing," says Don Schroeger, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Corrections in Jefferson City. A year's subscription six editions costs $19.95.

The newsstand price is $3.95 per copy, Church said. Schroeger said he and other corrections staff received copies of the magazine about two weeks ago. Some copies also were given to inmates with the department's blessing. "There are a lot of things in there that are important to the inmates, and the magazine is not attacking anybody or anything," Schroeger said. "If the rest of it pans out like this, it's not going to be detrimental to anybody." Besides the Manson column, articles hawked on the cover are: "Moms In Prisons What About Their Kids?" "Kidney For Sale Inmate Offers Parts For Freedom." The latter is about "a guy who's trying to sell his body parts so he can raise enough money for an attorney," Church said.

That inmate is in the Jefferson City Correctional Facility, as is Christiano Perez, another inmate featured in an article about the prison's television studio. Perez, who spoke by telephone from the prison, said he believes many inmates would subscribe to Prison Life or would buy at the commissary. "It's a good thing," said Perez, 36, who is serving a 30-year sentence for felonious assault. "And it's outstanding because it's another avenue of communication for us at least for those concerned about freedom and leaving this environment at some time." Church, who is group ad director for Scott Magazines, said the response so far had been "tremendous." He estimated subscriptions stand at about 2,000, but he expects many more. Roosevelt Bank A Federal Savings Bank The Smart Place to Bank Chesterfield, 532-6213 Clayton, 663-5678 Crestwood Plaza, 961-8011 Crave Coaur, 432-1246 Downtown, 231-5300 Jamestown Mall, 355-4900 Klrkwood, 966-0666 Lemay, 487-3717 Mid Rivera, 279-1310 Normandy, 381-2800 Northwest Plaza, 739-9200 River Roada, 868-3115 South City, 481-0610 South County, 487-9669 Tesson Ferry, 849-3020 Waterlord, 921-3300 In Illinois Alton, 466-7700 Alton Square, 462-8866 Staunton, 635-5450 Interest compounded quarterly.

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