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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN, May 21, 1973 CHICKEN IN THIS AD ARE (FfCCTIVl THROUGH SATURDAY. ITIMS OF'IRIO roR-SAit NOT AVAILAILI TO OTHIR RETAIL MALMS AND WHOLESALERS Slaying Has Police Baffled MAY 26h AT ASP WEO IN ASHEVILLE by the piece A Lttle more than a month after the brutal slaying of -Ginger Olson, a University of North Carolina-Asheville coed, on a hill near the campus, police continue to search for a clue any clue that might give liiem a trace of the Mller. The case has been a baffling one "one of the toughest Bob Terrell BSSs) "Try it you'll like it" SAVE MONEY AT WEO ON CHUNK BOLOGNA cases since I've been in tms job," said Chief of Police, J. C. Hall.

Hall's detective division has checked out every lead to a dead end. Likewise with the State Bureau "of Investigation. Red Minter, supervisor of the SBI's western division, is beginning to look behind him. "1 think we're gonna have to start back-'tracking," he said, "and see if we jnissed some little something. We'll, just have to bum some more Minter agonizes over the there's something," he All Moot By The Piece Lb.

a to POLICY: BOB TERRELL a 13-year-old girl, but we determined that he hadn't been in Asheville since last Christmas. "The SBI has given a number of polygraph tests, and turned up nothing. We sent several pieces of evidence to the SBI lab in Raleigh with no results. "We arrested a boy who broke into the Greek Community Center and sent some of his items to Uie SBI lab, thinking he might have been involved, but the results were negative and he was released. He's the only one who has been in jail as a suspect.

"We have even gone back as far as 1965 checking out similar killings! There was a girl named Sue Ellen Evans who was stabbed in the heart in Chapel Hill in July of 1965. That case, which is still unsolved, was similar to this one, so we've checked out everybody who transferred from UNC-Chapcl Hill to UNOAsheville since that time. Nothing." Are there any current suspects? "The news media asks if we've got any suspects," Hall said, "and I say everybody is a suspect but me and the only reason I'm not is because I KNOW where I was. At the moment, though. I will admit we have no one suspect who is under more suspicion than any other." Hall does not think there is a tie-in between the slaying of Miss Olson and that of VISTA worker Nancy Morgan in Madison County June 17, 1970.

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"All we Jiave to do is find it. But where?" J. C. Hall admits he has lost sleep over the case. "I wake up in the middle of the night," he said, "and go over things we know and try to come up with a logical explanation I can't put the pieces together.

I know that the men working on the case have lost sleep, too. The only thing we can do is keep plugging." They Checked Every Lead At first, while leads and information were flowing freely, Hall assigned his whole detective division to the case. The SBI, working closely with the Asheville Police Department, put five agents on the case. "We ran down every lead," Hall said. "We checked out every piece of information, regardless of who brought it to.

-But we turned up empty-handed." Since then, the investigation has bailed down to a four-man atffair. Detective Sergeants Charlie R. Rhew and Ralph Cook of the Asheville Police Department and SBI Agents Charlie Chambers and' Bill Matthews spend most of their, time trying to find this killer. Miss Olson was stabbed to death and raped on a Sunday afternoon. Her body was discovered by two teen-agers who called the police, touching off a massive manhunt.

"We started the long road of footwork and talk that day," Hall said. "I wouldn't hazard a guess as to how many people we've talked to. Men in this department and with the SBI have spent an untold number of hours talking with people at the college and with those we know were in the University Gardens at the time of the murder." The Gardens are just across W. T. Weaver Boulevard from the place where the body was found.

"After the first few days," Hall said, "we had citizens volunteer to take imetal-detecting devices into the area to try and locate a weapon. They found nothing. Any Suspects? "We checked out several suspects to determine where they were at the time to no avail. Our last jaunt was to De-. Kalb County, Georgia, to talk to a man we thought might be inivolved.

He was picked up in the process of trying to rape Steak Roast Bone In Lb. Hall has developed a thread of a theory in the Olson case. "It would appear, from what we know, that the murderer was someone she knew," he said. "The reason we feel that way is this: witnesses we've developed saw two people sitting on the bank where her books were found about 214 hours before her body was discovered." Unfortunately, the witnesses didn't pay enough attention to tell whether it was a boy or girl with Miss Olson. "Our theory," said Hall, "is that it was a boy.

"There is another line of thought," Hall added. "We got many stories about her outgoing personality. Kids are very friendly nowadays. So it's possible that she would talk to a total stranger who walked up." As yet, a motive for the slaying has not been turned up. "That," said Hall, "leads me to believe that whoever killed Miss Olson may repeat the crime somewhere else.

When a killer has a motive for killing a particular person, he seldom repeats the crime, so without a motive, we're checking out every similar crime that occurs. We sent a detective to Alabama to investigate a man accused of raping a girl on a university campus and he determined that tiie man hadn't been out of the county in which he allegedly committed the crime. But we checked out all leads like that." Rewards totaling $4,000 have failed to produce a hard lead in the Olson case. But the police keep plugging away. "That's all we can do," Hall said.

"Like Red Minter said, we'll just keep burn- -ing leather until we come up with something. We're still receptive to anything anyone wants to tell us we'll check it out. "And we certainly won't close the case till it's solved." "SUPER-RIGHT" CORN FED HEAVY BEEF Chuck Steak -boneless Lb. $1.19 "SUPER-RIGHT" CORN FED HEAVY BEEF Shoulder Swiss Steak-boneless Lb. $1.19 "SUPER-RIGHT" CORN FED HEAVY BEEF Shoulder Roast bone-in.

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