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IV Arizona flqiln Stor Page Eight Section A Tucson, Wednesday, September 19, 1984 provide some hope When was the last time you had a delicious or shake? JSrv QiJi cHomor Davis School fVL. I OlltCj found 1 Roger Co -IS I Prince CC U. Li- Let Baskin-Robbins refresh your memory. We still make your fountain favorites the way they used plenty of nuts and toppings and cherries. Except nowadays there's 31 flavors to choose from! EIIJ.A'IWWIMWIM ALL FOUNTAIN ITEMS SECOND y2 PRICE! OF EQUAL OR LESSER VA! IIP 1 COUPON SPECIALS 10A1 STORES mmm asaa-mr BASKIN-ROBBINS CREAM STORES 'kind' acts was a dark green or brown Monte Carlo with Arizona plates, The police are checking on it.

There are some indications that the woman may live near or in Vicki's neighborhood. After circulating the composite drawing at area Circle stores, deputies found a clerk who said he had seen the woman in his store before. The store is the one at Romero and Wetmore, where Vicki mailed a letter just before her disappearance. A woman who lives in an apartment complex near Homer Davis School reported that she had to fight off a woman who tried to abduct her 2-year-old son from the laundry room of the complex a week ago. The mother said the woman claimed her own little boy had been killed by police.

A sheriff's sergeant said officers had talked to other residents at the apartment complex and were keeping the report in mind. But he noted that the mother's description of the abductor didn't match that in the composite drawing. Police believe Vicki's abductor may have emotional problems. Detective Weaver Barkman said he believes the woman may have lost a child to death, divorce, abortion or miscarriage. "You don't just wake up one morning and decide to snatch a kid," he said.

"She's probably been living with this for years." Barkman said it is probable the woman has a drug or an alcohol problem, or both. She is probably a paranoid, Barkman said. The woman is described as olive-skinned, with a pronounced, Roman nose. She has dark hair that is notic-ably lightened at the roots. She is "sturdy," about 5-foot-6, and "needs a bath," according to a flier put out by the Sheriff's Department.

She was wearing a "Bella Abzug" wide-brimmed brown hat and carrying a large, brown leather purse with two cigarette pouches built into the front. The clerk who recognized Vicki worked at Cartoon Junction in Tucson Mall. She remembers a child acting up around 7:10 p.m. and the woman buying her a toy. She paid with a $20 bill produced from a white bank envelope containing other bills.

The child was begging to go home. At the time, the clerk simply thought the child was spoiled. She noticed the woman carried a very large package from Mervyn's, which is located near Cartoon Junction in the mall. At the children's department in Mervyn's, a clerk studied the composite drawing as recognition spread across her face. "I saw a woman wearing a big, New York-type hat in here," she Ruthrauff I VOl, Wetmore Vicki'o homrGardner North 1 COUPON PER PERSON VOID WITH OTHER COUPON GOOD THRU OCT.

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with bloodshot eyes. A repeat of the door-to-door; search conducted the night before produced nothing new, except the reversal of the neighbor boys' earlier assertion that they saw Vicki talking to someone in a brown car. "Nothing. Nothing," the police would say when they met on the streets bordering the houses. Then they'd become quiet.

The search was called off about 10 a.m., and the officers retreated to the command post. Officers were in and out all day "following leads." The FBI reportedly sent 15 men from Phoenix in the afternoon to assist. Richard Rogers, agent in charge of the FBI office in Tucson, said yesterday that federal agents will work with the Sheriff's Department. Rogers said the FBI entered the case yesterday because of evidence that the girl had been abducted. State and federal authorities hold joint jurisdiction in such cases, he said.

State officials usually prosecute such cases if state lines are not crossed in the crime. Rogers declined to say how much FBI manpower would be devoted to the case. The searchers continued to follow leads, no matter how slim. At 5 a.m., a psychic who has aided police in other investigations arrived at the command center. The psychic, Joyce Martin, stayed all day and, in late afternoon, said she "felt something" near Ina Road, west of Interstate 10.

Relatives and friends of Vicki's father, Ron Hoskinson, rushed to the area. They searched in waist-high weeds along the Santa Cruz River, on foot and in all-terrain vehicles, but found nothing. Late in the afternoon, police thought they had a good prospect a woman arrested many times for "crazy things" whom they described as non-violent. The woman's mug shot looked like the composite drawing drawn from the Cartoon Junction clerk's description, but police interviewed the woman and decided she was not involved. Althnuph nnlirp alsn rnrripri rnm.

posite drawings of child molesters, particularly those thought to have been involved in recent attacks on schoolchildren, they are hoping it is the woman in the big hat who has" Vicki. 1 They're also hoping they can find her. said. "It was light brown or tan. I can't remember when, though." The clerk working the children's department cash register was not at work in the morning.

When reporters tried to contact her through her supervisor, he said police told him not to comment. Later, police would neither confirm nor deny whether the woman was known to have bought Vicki clothing in the Tucson Mall Monday night. "We're hopeful, because she's doing kind things for the child," said Barkman. But this was no consolation to the girl's family. "What difference does it make if it's a man or a woman, if she's crazy?" asked Vicki's grandfather, Carl Trimmer.

"She was scared of everybody. Being sought A Sheriff's Department composite drawing taken from a store clerk's description. She wouldn't have gone anywhere willingly." Vicki's parents and teachers said yesterday that she had been trained not to talk to or go with strangers, and that she remembered and could repeat the warnings she learned in school. Vicki came home from school at 3 p.m. Monday.

About 45 minutes later, she rode her bike to the Circle to mail a letter. On the way back, she ran into a friend, Jennifer Spencer, also 8. Jennifer asked whether Vicki could come play. Vicki said she would go home, about two blocks from the Spencer house, and ask her mother. No one ever saw her again.

Her bike was found in the middle of Jennifer's street North Pocito Place only yards from Jennifer's house. The seat was twisted, but there was no sign of a car accident. The family became worried when Vicki did not return in a half-hour. They looked themselves for a half-hour then called the police. Police searched door to door and MfJi jK- 1 Woman's Continued from Page One confusion earlier about whether the person is a man or woman.

Vicki had disappeared off a serene, Neighborhood Watch-protected cul de sac in the Flowing Wells area north of the city's northwestern boundary. More than 35 volunteers and law officers from three agencies combed the Flowing Wells area hoping not to find the 8-year-old's body which they did not. But they also found nothing they hoped for a really good witness, a car description, an identification of the woman seen in Tucson Mall with the child Monday night. The clerk who waited on the pair in a mall toy store and phoned police after recognizing the child on the news later said the child was pleading to go home. "You're not going to take me home, are you?" the child wailed.

The woman bought her a stuffed Garfield cat instead. After going door to door in the area around North Romero and West Wetmore roads, and after searching bushes and sheds for two hours, the police checked out leads. Last night, Sheriff's Department spokesman Richard Kastigar said deputies had received between 150 and 200 leads and tips. They were looking for more and set up a hot line telephone number, 293-2700. They checked reports of a brown Datsun 280Z that some neighborhood boys said had cruised through the area shortly before Vicki's disappearance.

Contrary to earlier reports, the police are not certain that Vicki actually talked to anybody in the "brown car" the boys described Monday. One of the boys is only 4 years old and really could not describe anything, police said. At least three other cars were described, however, and police at the search command center at 1556 W. Prince Road shrugged in futility when asked if they thought the car leads would amount to anything. A Flowing Wells High School junior, David Rafus, identified a police composite drawing of the suspect spotted by the clerk in the toy store as a woman he saw around 3:45 p.m.

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Infants' hand or footprints will be taken. On Oct. 1, the program will become an ongoing service of the St. Joseph's emergency department. The Love Note document will also include information such as height, weight, hair color, distinguishing marks, blood type, sex, date of birth and nicknames.

Parents are advised to keep the Love Notes in a safe place, together with a current, dose-up color photograph, dental records and a hair sample of each child. Southern Arizona law enforcement officers have been training St. Joseph's employees to take fingerprints, hospital spokesman Jim Planck said. They will also make the rounds of the various locations where Love Notes will be available this weekend, Planck said. EL CON CENTER Friday, September 21 Authorities estimate that at least 100,000 children in the United States were kidnapped last year by parents in custody fights, and 50,000 more are taken by strangers many never to be heard from again.

The Love Notes program is designed to provide parents with a document to' keep, education on what measures to take to protect their children, and instructions about the types of information needed by officers in searching for a missing child, Planck said. Love Notes will be available this weekend between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at these locations: St. Joseph's Hospital emergency department, 350 N.

Wilmot Road. Tucson McDonald's restaurants at 6105 E. Broadway, 5640 N. Swan Road, 6900 E. Tanque Verde Road, 540 W.

Valencia 3740 E. Grant Road, 1711 E. Speedway, 3232 N. Campbell 4495 N. Oracle Road, 3570 S.

Sixth 3830 W. Ina Road, Tucson Mall at North Oracle and West Wetmore Roads, 3310 E. 22nd St and 7202 E. 22nd St. Nogales McDonald's, 205 Crawford.

Sierra Vista McDonald's, 1802 Fry Blvd. After Oct. 1, the service will be offered Monday through Thursday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the St.

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