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Sunday, October 3, 1982 Akron Beacon Journal A11 MASSILLON GOlIL FOUND SLAOW girls are gone Lake Erie 3 AN i along 150-mile Ohio crime line iviapie Heights Tammy Seals Age 14 Oct. 17, 1980 Damita Sullivan Age 9 Oct. 12, 1981 Proctrin Marshallville Massillon PHOTO NOT AVAILABLE Tina Marie Harmon Age 12 Oct. 29, 1981 1 JoAnne Herbert Age 14 July 22, 1981 Kelly Prosser Age 8 Sept. 21, 1982 Plain City I Upper Arlington Y- Columbus I Such people also tend to be enamored of the enormity of the crimes they commit.

"MURDER is abhorrent to begin with. That, in itself, might appeal," Tanay said. "But it is so abhorrent to our culture to do that to a child that it becomes the pinnacle of deprivation." Psychological profiles have been drawn in several of the nine disappearances. Only Upper Arlington Police Detective Edward Tyne would discuss specific profiles, saying Tanay's conclusions were consistent with that of the suspect in the murder of Asenath Dukat. Here are brief histories of each of the cases: Asenath Dukat "Sennie," as she was known to her friends, was last seen June 3, 1980, at a crosswalk three blocks from school.

She and her classmates had been kept late 10 minutes as punishment for some rowdy behavior that day. She was reported missing by her parents at 4 p.m. The 11-block walk usually took 20 minutes; 40 had passed. Her fully clothed body was found Zy2 hours later in a small creek bed one block from her home. According to Tyne, the girl's skull had been crushed with a large stone and there was evidence of sexual attack.

She also had been choked. No suspect has been identified. i JoAnne Hebert The slightly stocky teen-ager disappeared 13 months later from a grocery store about a mile from her Dublin home. She was last seen at 5 p.m. making a phone call from a booth outside the store.

Her red-orange, 10-speed bicycle was still propped against a wall when the store closed two hours later. JoAnne's partially decomposed body was found on Sept. 29, 1981, by a squirrel hunter in a wooded area of neighboring Union County. Her skull had been crushed. No suspect has been identified.

Tiffany Papesh There were last-minute errands that Friday June 13, 1980 -for the family's camping trip. Tiffany offered to walk to the store for hamburger buns. While in the checkout line, she stepped aside to let an elderly woman pay for her groceries. Tiffany then paid for her purchase, dropped the change in her bag and walked out of the store. She was never seen again.

"This is the greatest vanishing act in the world," her father said two weeks later; "Houdini could never have done anything to compare A bulletin circulated by Maple Heights police describes Tiffany as 4 feet tall, weighing 58 pounds, Continued from page Al mony and evidence linking one of those slayings, that of Tina Marie Harmon, to the death of Krista Harrison. A man has been arrested in another case Donald L. Maur-er, 28, an unemployed meatcutter from Massillon, was charged Saturday with aggravated murder, kidnapping and rape in Dawn's death. Threads of similarity age, geography, cause of death, sexual assault run through several of the killings, but police have been unable to weave those threads into a single fabric. WHAT EMERGES, however, is a dark cloth of brutality a cloth from which other killers of other young girls in other cities have been cut.

While those killers may rape their victims, their goal is sadistic, not sexual satisfaction, according to Dr. Emmanuel Tanay, who is recognized as one of the top forensic psychiatrists in the country. "We often view rape, whether a child or adult woman, as a means to an end: Securing sexual gratification," Tanay said. "For these people, sadistic activity is the goal the suffering imposed upon the parents as well as the victim." They need to hurt, often because they were hurt as children and they need to hurt again and again, Tanay said. "The impulses are within the person; therefore, he is driven to do it over and over until apprehended or killed," he said.

"Something is terribly distorted in their character. They don't have a normally developed conscience; feelings of remorse or guilt are unknown; their conduct is perfectly acceptable to them." WHILE TANAY'S description evokes images of wild-haired men with glazed eyes, most "sadistic psychotics" do not look bizarre or peculiar, he said. "Again, generalizations, but these are people who live very normal yet isolated lives, with few links to the outside world," he said. "They are bright, calculating and prepare (a murder or assault) carefully." Dr. Richard Dobbins, director of Akron's Emerge Counseling Center, agreed.

"Whoever is doing it is very disturbed, but also very smart," he said. "He may very well understand the sociology of small towns, where you don't have the fear syndrome working for children's survival and you don't have police departments prepared to handle these cases." Such people are equally careful in choosing victims, Tanay said. "There is some element age group, gender, physical feature that makes (a victim) acceptable to them." i Tiffany Papesh Age 8 June 13, 1980 Akron J3 Canton Dawn Marie Hendershot Age 7 Sept. 29, 1982 Beacon Journal found evidence of sexual attack. The FBI and police in Wayne, Holmes, Ashland and Stark counties have pursued almost 600 leads in the case including reports that a man photographed Krista at softball games.

Sketches of Krista's abductor have been mailed to 400 police departments across Ohio, along with a description of the van that sped away from the park. No suspect has been identified. Kelly Ann Prosser They found her raincoat crumpled along the roadside, the right sleeve smeared with blood. They found Kelly a half-mile away in a Madison County cornfield Columbus police have refused to comment on details of the, 8-year-old's death Sept. 22, but sources say she was strangled and sexually molested.

Police have questioned a 63-year-old Columbus man charged with gross sexual imposition in an attack on another girl the night before Kelly disappeared. "The big thing on my mind is that I hope Kelly didn't suffer," her father, Marty Hoffman, told a Columbus reporter. "I can't imagine the terror she went through 8 years old, grabbed off the street by some guy. "I wanted to talk about this so maybe one family can be spared this pain. The community has got to know how much jeopardy their kids are in." Dawn Marie Hendershot The 7-year-old Massillon girl disappeared Sept.

29, while walking home from a Massillon elementary school. She was found dead Saturday. Beacon Journal photo by Ted Walls parked on Deerfield Avenue 1 A ML Krista Harrison Age 1 1 July 17, 1982 Maynard recanted his testimony two months later, saying he had lied because of threats by investigators. Holbrook's trial began Aug. 27 before a three-judge panel.

Two days later, it was disclosed that evidence had been found linking Tina's death with the kidnap-slaying of Krista Lea Harrison of Marshallville. The matching orange-brown carpet fibers were only one twist in the trial. A key prosecution witness, Tammy Decker, recanted her testimony; another, Susan Siegler, defended Holbrook from the witness stand. But the judges found Holbrook guilty as an accomplice to murder, rape and kidnapping. On Sept.

15, Rucker was granted a new trial based on the "strong probability" he would have been acquitted without May-nard's "perjured" testimony and with the fiber evidence. Prosecutors last week asked the 9th District Court of Appeals to uphold Rucker's convictions. Holbrook also has petitioned for a new trial, arguing that the judges' unannounced visit to a crime scene violated his right to be present at all phases of his trial. Krista Lea Harrison More than two months after her abduction, Marshallville still shrinks from strangers. The sixth-grader was dragged into a dark-colored van as she played July 17 in a park across the street from her home.

Her body was found six days later in an abandoned garage in rural Holmes County. She had been strangled. An autoposy south of where cruisers are Dublin torial deceit and constitutional error" is before the 8th District Court of Appeals. Damita Sullivan The girl was last seen Oct. 12, 1981, walking with two boys near her Copley Road home in West Akron.

Days, then months, slipped by as massive searches were conducted by off-duty police officers and volunteers. "This is sad. It gets sadder by the hour," one detective said. That sadness gave way to anger and frustration after police listed Damita as a runaway. Her parents insisted she was abducted.

Her body was found April 21 in a shallow grave a half-block from her home. Cause of death has never determined. No suspect has been identified. Tina Marie Harmon "Wait for me," the 12-year-old called to her friends, paying for a Fudgesicle and heading out the door of a Creston grocery store. Five days later, on Nov.

3, 1981, her fully clothed body was found at an oil well site near Navarre in Stark County. She had been raped and strangled. Herman Ray Rucker, 26, of West Salem, and Ernest Holbrook 20, of Lodi, were indicted three months later on charges of aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping. Rucker was found guilty June 9 by a Wayne County Common Pleas Court jury, largely on the testimony of four witnesses including a fellow farm worker, Curtis Maynard and was sentenced to life in prison. The body was found in just in- vti 3 Asenath June 3, 1980 (fSM; 1 i awn's neighbors with brown hair cut in a shag style.

She wore blue shorts and a red T-shirt with the words: "Let's face it, I'm cute." Her body has not been found. Police say they follow up any leads that come to the department, but her father disagrees that everything is being done to find her. "There are still states where my daughter's picture hasn't been shown," he said last August. "Nothing I know of is really being done." Tammy Seals The eighth-grade honor student lived with her widowed mother, brother and sister, earning money by delivering newspapers. She disappeared the morning of Oct.

17, 1980. Her newspaper bag was found in a yard across the street from her Cleveland home. Only 12 of the 27 papers had been delivered. Her body was found four months later in an abandoned house 10 blocks from her home. The cause of death is undetermined.

"Let the people know that a lunatic is still out there. He's still out there," cried her mother. Orlando Chico Morales, 24, of Cleveland, was convicted of aggravated murder, felonious sexual assault and kidnapping largely on the testimony of a former Cuyahoga County Jail cellmate. The cellmate later said he lied to gain favor with prosecutors on robbery charges. Morales was denied a new trial, but an appeal citing "publicity, strained emotions, prosecu grieve Potted plants hang in most windows and there are several sitting on the front and side porches.

Saturday, metal wind chimes hanging from a front porch awning made a soft sound in the gentle breeze. LORETTA WEIGAND, 87, the oldest resident of the neighborhood, looked out of Mrs. Cary's front window toward the Maurer home and talked about the tragedy. She said she used to see Dawn playing with her neighborhood friends including the children who live in the Maurer house. "She played with his children," Mrs.

Weigand said. "That's what hurts." Mrs. Cary's son, Dale, had hints of tears in his eyes and anger in his voice. The father of three said Dawn's abduction and slaying are the best argument for the death penalty. "If America doesn't wake up and enforce the laws on the books and bring back the death penalty, it will be too late," he said, "Some people say it's cruel.

Is it any more cruel that what happened over there?" His voice cracked slightly. "Everybody in the city, every place you go, people feel the same," he said. "It isn't safe for a boy or girl to walk down the street any more." with family of murdered girl shots moved into the neighborhood about 10 years ago, when Scott was about 7. "Her brother, he worshipped that little girl," Mrs. Cary said.

"He's the one that has taken it the hardest." Scott, 17, is a member of the Massillon Washington High School football team. Team members were among the dozens of people who made their way to the Hendershot home. Some women carried trays of food. A florist delivered flowers. As they left the home, the visitors were in tears.

"Oh, God, why?" a young girl sobbed. Two Massillon police officers stood outside the house, turning away reporters and other unwanted guests. The Hendershot home is diagonally across the street from Maurer's rented house. MAURER, his wife and her four children have lived in the small two-story white house for about a year. Police reports say Maurer is married, but they don't say to whom.

Neighbors say he was not married to the woman with whom he lives. Maurer's house with its patches of peeling paint was obviously a house for children. There are Mickey Mouse curtains in the largest front window of the home. There is a small red bicycle near the front porch and a yellow bike near a side porch. By Terry Oblander Beacon Journal staff writtr Loretta Cary remembers the day that Patricia Hendershot brought her baby home from the hospital.

"I went over to see her. She was such a beautiful baby," she said. That beautiful baby Dawn Marie Hendershot who had grown to age 7, was found dead Saturday morning in a northwestern Stark County woods. Dawn's neighbor, Donald Lee Maurer, is accused of killing her. Mrs.

Cary, a widow, lives next to the Hendershot family on Allen Avenue Northwest. "They're nice people," she said of the Hendershots. "They're quiet people devoted to their children." Dawn had become one of Mrs. Cary's little friends. "She's a very pleasant, sweet little girl," Mrs.

Cary said. "I'll never forget the time she played doctor and beat me on the chest like this." Mrs. Cary rapped on her chest, imitating Dawn's play. The widow had watched Dawn grow up. "Most of the kids played in their drive," Mrs.

Cary said. "She was never, never stingy or anything. "I never saw her fight with anyone. She was almost a perfect child." MRS. GARY said she also watched Dawn's brother, Scott, grow up.

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