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Sunday. June 12, 1983 Philadelphia Inquirer 7-A Car linked to killings is found WJV rjfc a. 'k. Verdi nylon travelers for the Dad who's going places 1 I yC JllllllMI From Inquirer Wire Services LONG BEACH, Calif. The car taken from the ranch home where four people were killed in a bloody slaughter was found yesterday, and dozens of people reported seeing the escaped mental patient from Pennsylvania who is charged with the killings.

Officer Steven Philipini said only that the car, a white station wagon, was found yesterday morning "somewhere in the Long Beach area," about SO miles from the site of the killings. Authorities earlier said they believed the man responsible for the killings had taken the car. Sheriff's officials said they were receiving several calls an hour on a special hot line from people throughout Southern California claiming to have seen Kevin Cooper, the man charged in the slayings. A $10,000 reward has been offered for the arrest and conviction of the person who hacked four people to death at a posh hilltop ranch. Police on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border searched yesterday for Cooper, 25, who is from the Pittsburgh area.

California Gov. George Deukme-jian offered the reward Friday and called for a state investigation into how Cooper, charged with four counts of murder and one of attempted murder, was able to flee the California Institute for Men at Chino. Cooper is accused of killing F. Douglas Ryen, 41; his wife, Peggy Ann, also 41; their daughter, Jessica, 10, and a neighbor, Christopher Hughes, 11. The parents and the children died about 3 a.m.

last Sunday at their ranch in Chino Hills, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, where the Ryens raised Arabian horses. Only the Ryens' son, Joshua, 8, survived. He is listed in stable condition despite a slashed throat and chest wounds. The search for Cooper centered in western Mexico after San Bernardino County authorities received "numerous sightings" indicating that Cooper was heading south in the Ryens' station wagon. Sheriff's Capt.

Phil Schuyler said people throughout the country were responding to the search. "This thing has gone nationwide now. We've gotten calls from all over the country New York, Maine, Washington, Chicago, you name it." he said. "We've talked with Pennsylvania at least 12 times." Bulletins and photos sent to police offices in Tijuana and Baja California detailed the pursuit for Cooper, who was described as "extremely dangerous" by San Bernardino Sheriff Floyd Tidwell. Deukmejian called the killings "senseless" and demanded a report on how Cooper had escaped from a minimum-security area of the prison "Knockouts" Colteotloiv Zippered front pockets padded handles, cotton webbed shoulder strap.

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Despite sunny weather and the fact the bond election was the largest ever put before voters in a nearly area served by Metro, the turnout for the election was light, with only 12.2 percent of those eligible voting. The light turnout was a key in the defeat, said Metro General Manager Alan Kiepper. "As we indicated during the campaign, that was one thing we feared," he said. "The community obviously doesn't have consensus on how to deal with its transportation problems. It's very important for the future of the city of Houston that we achieve consensus.

That is what the board and the staff need to work on." What Metro officials called the heart of the proposal the 18.5 miles of heavy rail that would require 80 percent of the bond funds was what Councilman John Goodner, a leading critic, called "the heart of the problem." "I hope the message is loud and clear that the people do not feel like heavy rail is the solution," he said. Goodner said the heavy-rail system would benefit only about 3 percent of the population and suggested Metro more thoroughly consider the demand for transit throughout the city and design a less costly system that would serve more people. The defeat comes when portions of Houston freeways maintain peak traffic congestion of 14 hours on a weekday. Kiepper said the Metro would have to come back to voters with some kind of transit plan, but he would not say if a rail system would be considered again. "Rovers" Collection.

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