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tt 15 MAR 2 1993 ST. LOUIS HUST-OISPATCH ST. LOUISTUESDAY TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1993 -3 A Futo Says Ke Shot Brother After Sibling Killed Family 3 Nicholas picked him up at Lambert Field, and they drove around for hours while Nicholas talked about abuse by his father and his own problems, with school and work, Futo said. Futo's account of the murders follows: Late that evening, he dropped Nicholas off and waited in the parking lot of an apartment complex for nearly two hours. Nicholas arrived and threw a gym bag in the back seat.

They then drove to a wooded area near a got out of the car and began walking. That's when Nicholas confessed that he had murdered the family, including Joseph, the youngest brother. "He said, 'Joe is sleeping Nobody's ever going to hurt Joe He said he had shot Joe in the back seat of Joseph's car," Futo said. Nicholas described beating their mother to death with a sledgehammer. "He wanted to make her go to sleep," Futo testified.

Nicholas then told his brother that he had shot and stabbed their father when he came home from work. That's when Nicholas and his brother began struggling. When the gun fell on the ground, Emory Futo picked it up and started firing at Nicholas. Leaving the cemetery, he saw the bodies of his parents at their home on Marquette Avenue and the body of his brother in a nearby parking lot. Futo said he didn't call police because "I was scared I'd get blamed for all of this." Futo dropped the gun and sledgehammer off the Interstate 70 bridge into the Missouri River near St.

Charles and drove to a restaurant. He wiped off the car's interior, took a cab to Lambert Field and flew home to California. "You wanted to get the heck out of town, didn't you?" Assistant Circuit Attorney Robert Craddick said on cross-examination. "I wanted to see my wife and my son, where I would be safe," Futo replied. By Tim Poor Of the Post-Dispatch Stall Emory M.

Futo testified Monday that he killed his brother, Nicholas, in self-defense after Nicholas told him he had murdered the rest of the family. During six hours on the witness stand, Futo, 29, choked back tears as he also recounted a horrific childhood dominated by his father, Emory J. Futo. The son portrayed the elder Futo as a monster who subjected the family to repeated physical, verbal and sexual abuse. "You never knew when he was going to explode," Futo said.

He is charged with shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning his parents and two brothers at or near the family home in St. Louis the night of July 25, 1991. Under questioning by his attorney, Richard H. Sindel, Futo said that as early as age 4, he remembered his father beating his mother, Euna Futo. "I remember him hitting her, smacking her," he said.

"I used to run to her, and I'd get tossed away." As he grew older, he said, the abuse continued. His father often began beating his mother and then turned on him and his brothers. He said his mother "took orders. She didn't stick up for herself at all." His father often ridiculed her as a "dumb, fat Hoosier," sometimes forcing her to eat dinner in the basement, Futo said. Prosecutors have suggested that Futo killed his family to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in insurance proceeds.

Futo testified that he didn't need the money but that Nicholas did. "He said he owed some dangerous people some money," Futo said. Futo said he agreed to his brother's request to fly to St. Louis to meet with the creditors and used a fake name to buy his ticket in case "something bad would happen." i irrnr Jerry Naunheim Jr.Post-Dispatch Smart Hatters John Washington (left), 5, and Chris Rovylett, 6, donning newspaper hats Monday for the start of "Newspapers in Education Week" in their kindergarten class at Dewey International Studies Magnet School in St. Louis.

The Post-Dispatch sponsors the project. Owners Of Lingerie Shop Must Prove That Its Neighbors Approve he owners say the city is discriminating by enforcing a little-used ordinance after they had obtained a business license. but as far as I'm concerned right now, this doesn't change a thing," Nash said. "They will still have to collect names of 51 percent of the property owners in the neighborhood and a good percentage of those on the same block." Cornetta had said earlier that residents wouldn't be happy even if he painted his windows black. At least two residents say that's not true.

"He's got a right to do business like anyone else does," one resident said. But the resident, who asked to remain anonymous, objected to some of the products displayed in the window. Gene W. Reed, block captain for the 4900 block of Winona Avenue, said he wasn't opposed to lingerie displays, "but make it tasteful, not tacky." Reed said, "As long as our children don't see it, fine." Reed organized a letter-writing campaign against the store because of its displays. Cornetta and Sylcox would like to stay.

"We have a lot of investment here," Sylcox said. Cornetta said he picked the building for its low rent and high traffic. He said business has been brisk. Cornetta said he and Sylcox would attempt to gather the required signatures while seeking a court order against the city. But he also is considering moving the store to Illinois.

By Marcia L. Koenig 01 the Post-Dispatch Stall Leonard Sylcox, a partner in a lingerie store that has upset its neighbors in the South Hampton area, looked at his window displays Monday and conceded he might be willing to remove a few sex-related items. But, he said, "For a lingerie shop, taking the mannequins down is like telling McDonald's you can't have your arches." Later Monday, the owners painted the display windows black. Sylcox and his partner, John Cornetta, could lose rheir business license by the end of this month if they can't prove that a majority of the property owners in their block approve of the displays at their store, Simply Irresistible, 4519-4521 South Kingshighway. The two men say the city is discriminating against them by enforcing a little-used ordinance after they had obtained a business license.

Cornetta said, "Here are two businessmen both in their 20s putting up hard-earned capital and getting a license. Now, we are told, here's a law no one else in the city has to follow." The two men got their license in late December, after being closed by the city for operating without a license. License Collector Thomas Nash acknowledges that "neighborhood uproar" about the shop caused him to scrutinize city license laws. Nash notified Cornetta last week that he had 30 days to gather signatures on a petition stating that "the exhibition of your wares is not a nuisance or source of annoyance." Nash pointed to letters and petitions he had received recently from members of the South Hampton Neighborhood Association complaining about the store. When Nash learned Monday night that the store owners had painted the windows black, he said that wouldn't change anything.

"I'll have to take a look and see what's going on, llTnriJ "nuinr-rmmmi" r-iirnnriiiu itihwJ Ted DarganPost-Dispatch Leonard Sylcox (left) and John Cornetta, owners of Simply Irresistible, a lingerie store on South Kingshighway. Three Teens Charged In Killing Of Clerk U.S. Unit Builds Bridge, Confidence In Somalia Six Fort Leonard Wood Engineers Share Tale 7i i A 1 By Daniel R. Browning Ol the Post-Dispatch Stall Six Army engineers based at Fort Leonard Wood, left more than their footprints in the sand after toiling 12 weeks in Somalia. They left a bridge.

Col. Bob Flowers explained Monday at Lambert Field how his men had helped build a bridge between Somalia's port cities of Kismayu and Mogadishu, the capital. Parts were culled from stockpiles in Europe and flown by a C-5 Galaxy cargo plane to an area just north of Kismayu, said Flowers, whose hometown is Newport Richey, Fla. Flowers is the ranking officer of the engineering unit; he said the U.S. government presented the bridge to the Somalian people to replace one that had been destroyed by civil war.

"I think we made a difference," said Flowers, a career officer with 22 years in the Army. After the engineers started clearing roads and repairing wells, the Somalian people started coming out to fix things on their own, the soldiers said. "It was contagious," Flowers said. "All of a sudden, city councils started being formed, and police started wearing their uniforms again." The five men in his unit made similar remarks. They are Majs.

Stephen Wood of Mount Pleasant, S.C.; Robert O'Brien of Highland Head, S.D.; Keith Stelzer of Akron, Ohio; Sgt. Maj. Richard Guieb of Glencoe, and Sgt. 1st Class Javier Guerrero of Santa Monica, Calif. Until his assignment in Somalia, Guerrero had thought that some of Mexico's border towns were tough.

But they look like "tourist resorts" compared to Somalia, he said. "It improved from the day we got there," Guerrero said. "Anything we did, they were most appreciative." The only exception, he said, were the rebel fighters. Guerrero said his unit was caught in the middle of one of the roughest skirmishes involving U.S. forces.

About 6 a.m., as Guerrero and his buddies were brushing their teeth or shaving, U.S. Cobra helicopters bombed a guerrilla position. Guerrero said he was glad to put Somalia behind him. "Today is my wife's birthday, so I'm ready to get back home," he said. Guerrero said he hoped to get on the road again today to pick up his daughter in Tennessee.

"She'll be 5 in a week and a half," he -said. "I have a couple of birthdays and Christmas to make up." id Keller, 15, of the 500 block of Mockingbird Court, Troy, and Lorenzo Long, 17, of Terre Haute. Haine invoked a state law that allows anyone 15 to be tried as an adult automatically if charged with first-degree murder or certain other crimes. "This is another example of wanton, vicious violence," Haine said. "The man offered no resistance, and they shot him to death in cold blood." Haine said he would seek the maximum sentence for Keller aji Long if they are convicted.

First-degree murder carries a sentence of 20 to 60 years, but the sentence can be extended to 100 years in particularly heinous cases. The three youths were brought into circuit court in Edwardsville for an initial appearance Monday. Chief Criminal Judge Edward C. Ferguson ordered them held in lieu of $500,000 bonds. Jackowski and Keller remained at the Juvenile Detention Center, and Long is in the County Jail.

The three youths showed no reaction during the brief hearing. But Keller wiped away tears as he was allowed to meet with his family after the hearing. Lay said Jackowski formerly lived in St. Jacob but moved to Terre Haute some time ago with his mother and stepfather. Jackowski and his family were visiting in the St.

Jacob area over the weekend, Lay said. Long was described as a friend from Terre Haute who accompanied Jackowski on the trip. Lay said the police in the Metro East area had begun searching for the 1991 Geo Storm driven by Jackowski after other youths in Highland reported that a shot had been fired at them from that car after a minor confrontation about 10 p.m. Friday. Officer Ken Dowdy of the Granite City police spotted the car about 1 1:30 a.m.

Saturday. He found five youths and a pistol in the car when he pulled it over. Meanwhile, the Major Case Squad was investigating the killing of Harrigan. Police found a automatic pistol they believed was the murder weapon on the parking lot at the convenience store, where it apparently had been dropped. That pistol and the one found in Jackowski's car were identified as belonging to Jackowski's father.

The father already had told police his son had taken both of the guns, Lay said. He also said a customer who was at the store just before the shooting remembered seeing the car driven by Jackowski. By Charles Bosworth Jr. Of the Post-Dispatch Stall Three teen-agers two of them 15 and the other 17 were charged Monday with murdering a convenience store clerk during an attempted robbery in Pontoon Beach over the weekend. Even though the two 15-year-olds are juveniles, they will be tried as adults because of the nature of the crime, authorities said.

Madison County State's Attorney William R. Haine said Monday that he would seek a life sentence for one of the 15-year-olds Shaun J. Jack-owski of Terre Haute, Ind. Police believe he fired the two shots that struck Hugh B. Harrigan, 56, of Granite City, in the chest and leg as he stood behind thejpcounter at the 7-Eleven Store in Pontoon Beach about 1:10 a.m.

Saturday. The St. Louis Major Case Squad said Monday that Harrigan probably was shot at the beginning of what was a failed robbery attempt. The squad's commander, Capt. James Lay, said it appeared nothing was taken from the store, at Illinois Route 111 and Pontoon Road.

Haine filed charges of first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery Monday against Jackowski; Dav- Boy's Shotgun Blast Hits Father In Chest A man from Jefferson County was in serious but stable condition Monday night after his 14-year-old son shot him in the chest with a 20-gauge shotgun. The boy shot his father after the man allegedly assaulted his wife. Captain Ed Kemp of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said the man, Ronald Pillow, 35, had put his wife, Judy Pillow, 31, in a headlock about 6:30 p.m., then had brandished a drinking glass at her. Then, the father allegedly shot her in the left buttock with a BB gun. The boy then ran to a bedroom for the shotgun and fired from the hall at his father from about eight feet away, Kemp said.

A helicopter evacuated Ronald Pillow to St. Louis University Hospital from the family home in the 1700 block of Lewis Lane in the Village of Jefferson, near Barnhart. Judy Pillow also went to the hospital. Deputies placed the boy in the custody of Jefferson County juvenile authorities. Kemp said the couple reportedly had been quarreling for about a half hour before the shooting.

Army Col. Bob Flowers hugging his wife, Lynda, after arriving Monday at Lambert Field from Somalia. Five other Army engineers took part in the 12-week tour. Headless Girl Still Nameless After 10 Years bought the skull for $35 in the late 1970s at a souvenir-gift shop on Lindbergh Boulevard near Northwest Plaza shopping center. Davis said he was told the skull was that of young Indian woman who had been killed hy a' tomahawk.

The body of the girl, who was black, was found Feb. 28, 1983 by two men rummaging in the basement of a vacant apartment building at 5635 Clemens Avenue. The body was clad only in a dirty ..3 yellow sweater; the hands were tied in back with a By Bill Bryan Of the Post-Dispatch Stall She was about 1 1 years old when someone sexually attacked her and then cut off her head in what police say is the only case of its kind in a country that has grown used to ghastly crimes. Ten years later, St. Louis police are no closer to learning the identity of the child they know only as Jane Doe or to finding her killer.

Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the body in the basement of a vacant building in the Cabanne neighborhood. "It's certainly bizarre," said St. Louis Homicide Sgt. Joe Burgoon, who has been the main investigator for several years. The FBI agency that documents and studies unsolved murders reported this is the only decapitation in the country involving someone so young, Burgoon said.

A remote lead was dispelled last week when the Armed Forces Medical Examiner's Office in Washington reported that a skull recovered in May in St. ,1 red and white nylon rope. Police determined that the girl had been killed he FBI agency that documents and studies unsolved murders reported this is the only decapitation in the country involving someone so young, Burgoon said. Louis County was not the murder victim's. "It was a long shot but worth pursuing," said Dr.

Mary Case, the St. Louis County medical examiner, who had sent the skull to Washington. Dr. William Rodriguez, a forensic anthropologist, determined that it was too old to be the girl's skull. A Charlack police officer got the skull from a man he had questioned at a storage shed on St.

Charles Rock Road, near Interstate 170. The man, Danny L. Davis, 34, of Pagedale, said he elsewhere. "Back then, I believed this would be an easy case to crack," Burgoon recalled. "We'd find out who the girl was, and that would lead us to the killer." That never happened.

Burgoon hasn't given up hope. ti, "There's somebody out there who knows who thisT 1 little girl was." I.