St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 25

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1995 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Serial Killer Executed After Eating Steak-And-SIirimp Dinner By Kristina Sauerwein Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Serial killer Anthony Joe LaRette died early Wednesday, after a final feast of steak and shrimp. LaRette's life ended at 12:12 a.m. Wednesday, five minutes after officials at the Potosi Correctional Center injected lethal drugs into his veins for stabbing to death a St. Charles teen-ager in July 1980.

LaRette confessed to raping and slaying more than a dozen victims in 11 states during the late '60s and 70s, said two investigators who worked closely with LaRette. Just three weeks ago, LaRette, 44, offered hints and clues about several murders in Florida, said Pat Juhl, a detective for the sheriff's office in Pinellas County in that state. "He provided the information because he wanted to clean his conscience," Juhl said. "He didn't seem to want the publicity like other serial killers. He wanted to help himself, and he thought it only right to let his victims' families know what happened to their loved ones." LaRette started a seven-year string of confessions in 1988.

He provided information to police about slayings in Illinois, Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Texas and Virginia, said Richard Lee, an investigator in the Cole County prosecutor's office in Jefferson City. Authorities also charged but never tried LaRette for murders in Kansas and Florida. In a final statement to the prison warden, LaRette said: "To my family and loved ones, I love them and I'm sorry it had to come this way." "His manner was cool," prison spokes man Tim Kniest said of LaRette, "and he chatted with prison officials up until the execution." LaRette became Missouri's 16th to be executed since the state resumed the death penalty in 1989. On July 25, 1980, LaRette killed 18-year-old Mary Fleming. He broke into her St.

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IV 1 1 II "1 11 1 II II 1 rniiiri I 1 'I'm Not Going To Die Here' Detective Recounts Life-Death Struggle With Robber At Bar By Bill Bryan Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Bob Siscel had a cut on his forehead and a headache Wednesday but he; realized things could be a lot Worse. Siscel, a St. Louis police narcotics detective, was struck in the forehead with the barrel of a sawed-off shotgun as he wrestled early Tuesday with a robber at Pooh's Corner tavern, 6023 Virginia Avenue. Siscel, who was off duty at the time, pulled his service pistol from his jacket and fatally shot the robber, Anthony Bickell, 18. An 18-year police veteran, Siscel, 42, said he had reacted instinctively when he grabbed the barrel of Bick-ell's shotgun.

"In my mind, I did the right thing," he said. first, I thought it was a joke when I heard somebody mention a robbery, but I turned around on the stool and the shotgun barrel was pointed right at me," he said Wednesday. don't like guns pointed at me. It was a reflex, I guess, in grabbing it. I told myself, 'I'm not going to die the struggle, the shotgun fired, wounding Siscel's brother, Joe, who is a University City police officer, and two other patrons at the bar.

None was seriously hurt, and all have been released from hospitals. While waiting for an ambulance, minutes after the incident, Bob Siscel said he had been struck by a terrible realization. "This could have been another Cousin Hugo's," he said. "'My brother Joe said he was thinking of Cousin Hugo's the whole time." Two people, one of them a Crest-wood police officer, were murdered and two other people wounded by robbers at Cousin Hugo's tavern in Maplewood in 1972. A story about some of the killers being eligible for parole was printed in Monday's Post-Dispatch, so the.

incident was fresh in the Siscel brothers' minds. Bob Siscel had worked the 3-to-l 1 shift Monday night and had been in the bar less than an hour when two robbers rushed in the front door about 12:30 a.m. The second robber fled when Siscel and Bickell began fighting. Homicide detectives said Wednesday that they did not know the identity of the second robber. They also said there might have been a third participant the driver of a getaway car that may have been Bickell's.

Bickell's car later was found at the corner of Fillmore Street and Idaho Avenue near the robbery scene. Bickell lived in the 6600 block of Idaho. Investigators also learned Bickell had belonged to a gang known as the arondelet Mafia Gangster Bloods. Bickell's parents turned over to 'police several photographs of their that show his gang involvement. declined to talk with a reporter.

4 i I Woman Is Raped, Robbed At Home Police in Lake Saint Louis were searching Wednesday night for a man who raped and robbed a woman in I her home Tuesday morning. The woman told police a man ap-jproached her outside her house about a.m. and asked for directions. He returned about 30 minutes later, after her husband had left and flourished a 12-inch butcher knife. He ordered the woman to go back inside the house.

The victim was taken to a bed-i room, where she was raped. Before leaving the house, the as-jsailant stole about $100 from the woman's purse and about $300 in 'jewelry. I The man bound the woman's hands feet with duct tape. She re-! mained tied up for more than three hours before a friend came to the house to check on her after the wom-! an had missed an appointment. The suspect is described as a white male in his mid-20s, 5 feet 8 to 5 feet 10 inches tall, 160 pounds, dark 1 brown and very short crew-cut hair, clean shaven; wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a camouflage, military-' ityle jacket.

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