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Page 13 St; Louis NewsNovember 29, 1 978 Hypnotized Witness Describes Murder Suspect I at the motel for meetings and conferences, police said. She had planned to drive to the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Richard C.

Becker, of the 2000 block of North Ballas Creve Coeur." Becker put up the initial $5,000 in reward money. The Crackers, who met as students at" Southwestern Missouri State University at Springfield, had been living in Louisville, but had planned to move back to the St. Louis area in the near future. "They were both happy about returning home," said a policeman, "and he was going to be making more money with the shoe company." Mrs. Crocker had been looking for rental property in the Glendale area, police said.

Crocker is a graduate of Vianney High School. About midnight Tuesday. Crocker told police, he walked his wife to the front door of the motel and watched as she went to her car. He then returned to the party. Witnesses heard a gunshot about 12:05 a.m.

about the time the hypnotized witness saw the young man and the brown car. by John M. McGuire Under hypnosis, a witness who was nearby when Nancy Crocker was shot to death on a Berkeley motel parking lot has given police a detailed description of an automobile and a partial license plate number. The Police are seeking a young man for questioning. Dr.

Jon Tek Lum, a psychiatrist, hypnotized the woman Monday. Under the spell, she told detectives that the automobile, which she saw on the parking lot of the King's Inn, 9600 Natural Bridge was a brown or rust-colored 1978 Chevrolet Camaro, with color-coordinated wheels and an antenna on the left rear side. The young man, who she said had light, medium length hair and heavy, light-colored eyebrows, was about 6-feet tall and weighed about 170 pounds. He was wearing a blue jacket and was carrying something in his left hand, an object that appeared to be wrapped in a towel, she said. So far, these are the only clues that Major Case Squad has in' the killing of the 22-year-old, strikingly pretty brunette.

Robbery is a possible motive, although Mrs. Crocker's purse, containing about $5, was left next to her body, apparently undisturbed. "They (Mrs. Crocker and her husband, Jeffrey,) had everything in the world to look to: it really tore a hole in tiis life when she was killed," said Jack Derr, a Berkeley detective, as he announced a $5,000 increase in the reward money in the murder case. The reward is now $10,000, which will be given for any information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Mrs.

Crocker's murder. The addition to the fund was made by the Brown Shoe where Crocker works as a salesman. Nancy Crocker, a 1974 graduate of Kirk-wood High School, was shot once in the left side of her head by a 38-cal. weapon. She was found slumped across the front seat of her Volkswagen beetle shortly after midnight last Tuesday.

She had just left a shoe company party at the motel and had been accompanied to the front door by her husband, who was staying Mrs. Nancy Crocker BEEF COMPANY Hell Hath No Fury Like Helen Scorned Zj 1 imj 1 1. iiili Vmm witanim i 1 1 gMfclMIIWWIIUyilllPMMWPII M.imH ll.llli.lMin iila.il wit a J-f fU 3s fW WH i s--t Ik I 1K AK I I Jans Jjsw Wts A I i. i-i I If I i Mat i I -jj 1 -t Jj It o( I 4k li A 1 1I i If St I mm I -v I Mrs. Helen Gerleman, who lost a race for the Democratic nomination for Congress against Rep.

William L. Clay. D-St. Louis, says she is quitting the Democratic Party because of its failure to support her. Mrs.

Gerleman. who was Nonnandy Township Democratic committeewoman in 197276, said she would become an independent. "I worked awfully hard, and devoted my adult life to the Democratic Party. I don't feel 1 received the support I deserved," she said. In a seven-person contest for the 'First District nomination.

Mrs. Gerleman finished second, losing to Clay by 10.000 votes. She led only in one county township in the district, which sonsists of north St. Louis wards and parts of central St. Louis and St.

Louis County suburbs. "I'm now an independent. I'm not going to turn Republican, but I'm not going to blindly support the Democratic side. I'm going to take the candidates as I see them," she said. Mrs.

Gerleman said she believed that a group of north St. Louis County voters would follow her lead, particularly in the Normandy area. "The Normandy Democratic organization is falling apart. If the Democrats want to hold on out here, they had better get' with it, she said. Mrs.

Gerleman was asked whether her feeling that the Democratic Party had failed to support her was similar to Clay's, who is backing Magistrate Charles H. Staples as an Independent for St Louis sheriff. Clay has accused the St. Louis Democratic Party of taking blacks for granted, and refusing to support Staples, who is black, for sheriff. "He's lying about what the Democrats have failed to do for him, and I'm telling the truth," Mrs.

Gerleman said. "The Democrats have given Clay plenty of support. I'd like to see him run on an independent ticket for Congress." I Is I. i TV- lis, 'is JU ii. GET IN LINE Not humans, of course, but the four-footed dears were meant by this sign at Twin City Beef Company at Interstate 270 and Lucas and Hunt Rd.

News Photo Jim Forbes St. Louis To Lyon: Le Grand Greeting their 12-foot by six-foot card (when opened) pen in hand and jot down their messages to Lyon. On Dec. 11, the giant card will be packed and sent by air to France, where the deputy mayor of Lyon; Rene Perrin, will officially put the card on display through the Christmas season. Westroads Mall, the Richmond Heights shopping center, on Friday will unveil a Christmas card that you can walk on, a greeting destined for France and St.

Louis's sister city, Lyon. Since the Guinness Book of World Records hasn't looked into such things, the shopping center is claiming that is the world's largest. Westroads will set up the card in the mall, where it will be on display from Friday, Nov. 24, until Saturday, Dec. 9, and Francophiles, poets, artists, writers and would-be ambassadors are invited to queue up with.