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Sunday, October 10, 1993 1 2 A Reno Gazette-Journal CRIME Suspect says 'urge' led to elderly slayings ESTATE AUCTION SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) Weeks of terror in this retirement haven ended with the arrest of a handyman who investigators said confessed to raping and killing four elderly widows because "he hnit iiro. Winona Ryder lends $200,000 reward for girl PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) Actress Winona Rvdcr otTcred a $200,000 reward Saturday tor the safe return of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, saying videotapes of the kidnapped girl stirred memories of her own childhood in Pctaluma. Ryder said a recent "America's Most Wanted" broadcast showed a home video of Polly acting on the same junior high school stage on which Ryder began her acting career, also at age 12.

"This case has really hit home for me because I grew up here in Petaluma." said Ryder, 21. "I left home, went and made mov ies and know how scared 1 was to be away from home though obviously in completely different circumstances. "I just want to try to help in any way 1 can to bring Polly back," she said. The reward money will be administered by the city of Petaluma, with funds offered to anyone providing information leading to the girl's safe return, police said. Pollv was abducted Oct.

1 from Police said Ed- Kaprat By order of Don Cavullo, Washoe County Public Administrator, we will be liquidating the estate of tivelyn Melville along with items from the estate of Dr. Benjamin Drummer, retired Reno Podiatrist, who has moved from his Dartmouth Dr. residence. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16TH Preview: Saturday October 16th, until Sale Time 870 S. ROCK BLVD.

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Smith. "He said something would just come over him. He had to go do it. There was a need he had. He had to fulfill this need." Deputies had followed Kaprat since receiving a tip Sept.

29. They linked him to a fingerprint on a garage door of the last victim, 87-year-old Lorraine Dawe, whose home was the only one not destroyed by fire. Kaprat, who worked at a machine shop in Tampa, often came to Hernando County to help with his father's business doing odd jobs and carpentry work. Associated Press PRESS CONFERENCE: Wino na Ryder talks of girl's abduction. her Petaluma home as she and two friends played a board game ana her mother.

Eve Nichol, slept in a room nearby. Police believe the kidnapper entered the home through an unlocked door or window. Once inside, he threatened them with a knife then tied and gagged the three. He asked, "Who lives here?" before taking Polly and leaving the others. In an interview published Friday in the Petaluma Argus Courier, Polly's two sleep-over friends said they didn't scream during the abduction because they thought at first it was a prank.

win Bernard Kaprat. a 29-year-old machinist, detailed how he met the victims by doing odd jobs, returned to kill them and tried to destroy the evidence by torching their homes. News of Kaprat's arrest Friday relieved residents of the quiet community 60 miles northwest of Tampa. Many had installed alarms and purchased handguns, fearing that a serial killer was on the loose. "It's wonderful," said 74-year-old Martha Cunningham, who had put double locks on her doors.

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