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THE TIMES FROM PAGE 1A 2A WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1989 Triple slaying baffles investigators General says B-2 worth high price Continued from Page 1A Grief-stricken family members were allowed inside the home to collect paperwork and clothing in preparation for the victims' funerals. Detectives are Interviewing and in some cases re-interviewing residents on Beth Lane and nearby Blom Boulevard but have turned up little. "We'll redo the neighborhood canvass. So far no one recalls anything out of ordinary," Pittman said.

"Whether a dog barked or whatever, nobody remembers. But then nobody was expecting anything to happen." Family members interviewed include the elder Grissom's brother and Grissom's only son, Scott, the father of Sean Grissom. The interviews were called routine procedure. "Detectives are trying to establish when the victims were last seen, who they were last with and work backwards from there," said police spokeswoman Cindy Chadwick. Police are still refusing to specifically describe the crime scene, including where the bodies were found, how the victims were dressed and whether they were bound.

Nor would they say if a murder weapon had been found. Such disclosures, Pittman said, could hinder the in ing of her." Sunday, the Grissom's newspaper remained at the end of the curb throughout the day. Without neighbors realizing it, the paper was the first indicator that there was something terribly wrong inside the Grissom home. "Every night I come outside and look around the street, just checking to see that everything's OK," said neighbor Bob Coyles. "Saturday night, I noticed Julie Grissom's light was on, the cars were parked in the driveway there was nothing unusual." Coyles said he noticed the paper in the Grissom's driveway Sunday but assumed that William Grissom, who was battling throat cancer, was having a bad day and was unable to go outside.

Coyles said he and William Grissom often fished together. "We were good neighbors and good friends," Coyles said. "You couldn't ask for a nicer neighbor." Coyles was among a trio of neighbors who checked the house Monday morning and discovered the bodies. They called police. "It's a nightmare.

Everybody is absolutely shocked," he said. "You just don't think about something like this happening in your neighborhood. It's always across town or somewhere else it's not supposed vestigation. Evidence points to probably one assailant, according to Caddo Coroner Dr. George McCormick.

No forced entry has been found at the home. The family is not known to have enemies or domestic troubles, Pittman said. "We haven't found any bad-blood type deals," he said. Curiosity-seekers continued to drive by the roped-off home Tuesday. A white Audi 4000 and gray Ford van remained in the driveway.

Carter, at his law office when told of Miss Grissom's murder, said his. first reaction was someone was playing "an awful practical joke." "I didn't believe it at first," he said. "But then I was like 'Oh, God, it can't be true. I love Julie Carter, who was working in Atlanta, this past weekend, says he dated Miss Grissom for 1 Vi years but the two chose to temporarily split two months ago to give them time to ponder marriage and a lifelong commitment. Saturday night, Carter said, he reached the "conclusion that I wanted that marriage and a family with her." "I couldn't sleep.

I woke up in the middle of the night with her on my mind," he said. "I couldn't go to sleep the rest of the night for think- to happen next door." The house remained roped off Tuesday with bright yellow tape indicating a crime scene area. Police cars fronted the house. A procession of officers constantly moved inside and outside the house. Across the street, family and friends of the Grissoms gathered under a canopy to grieve, console each other and watch as police sifted for clues to who would kill their loved ones and why.

The family declined interviews but said they may release a statement before the week's end. Carter seemed dazed. He says he met Julie Grissom at South Park Mall. He was buying luggage at Dillard's, where she was a clerk. The two became instant friends.

"I called her Julie Bug," Carter recalled. "She wasn't crazy about that because she thought it made her sound like a little girl. "But I told her I called her Julie Bug out of pure affection. She was cute, warm and lovable. She was so soft," he said.

Miss Grissom lived at home out of concern for her father's health, Carter said. William Grissom, a supervisor at was undergoing radiation therapy for his cancer. It caused significant side effects, Carter said. Continued from Page 1A this country is going to have a deterrent force," he said. The Air Force has asked for 132 stealth bombers.

A House-Senate conference agreement has approved production of two in fiscal 1990 and obtaining components in fiscal 1991 for a future five planes. The government has spent about $22.4 billion for the program. The Pentagon wants $4.7 billion for the bomber in the coming fiscal year and may need $8 billion in each of the three years of peak production, from 1992 to 1994, according to published wire service reports. According to SAC, the flyaway cost to manufacture and roll off the production line is $274 million each. But Associated Press reports have said that with development costs added, the price tag jumps to $530 million each.

As for the plane's expense, Chain said, "New technology just costs a lot." The B-2's wedgelike shape and composite materials give it a Gen. John T. Chain Jr. small radar signature that is virtually undetectable by Soviet systems, engineers have said. SAC's B-52s, which have been its mainstay bombers, are more than 30 years old and can't be relied on to penetrate Soviet defenses, Chain said.

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2. The child ran screaming after the man approached her, police said. That incident was not reported to police until they circulated information about the kidnapping of the 11-year-old girl, investigators said. Federal authorities obtained warrants Tuesday to search Vachuska's parents' home in Bossier City's Carriage Oaks subdivision. Five technicians from the FBI's laboratory in Washington will be going through the home of Vachuska's father, Edward an engineer at the General Motors truck assembly plant in Shreveport, as well as a pickup truck and another auto believed to have been used in the kidnapping.

They will be looking for hairs, cloth fibers and body fluids, agents said. The FBI entered the case because the girl was taken across the state line and dumped near Marshall, Texas. Approximately 35 agents, most from New Orleans, are involved in the investigation. The bulk of them arrived Thursday after Vachuska was linked to the case. Bossier City police on Tuesday received composite drawings of a man wanted by Ohio authorities in connection with the Oct.

27 disappearance of a girl in Bay Village, west of Cleveland. The child is still missing. Police Lt. Richard Wilson said 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic was re child told investigators she was forced to shower and then taken outside, placed in a vehicle and driven away. The child was taken to a rural highway south of Marshall, Texas, where she said she was again stuck with a needle and then thrown or pushed from a bridge and left for dead.

Harrison County investigators said the child was nude when she appeared at a nearby house about 1 a.m. The boy kidnapped from Bossier City told police he was taken from Swan Lake park and forced to perform oral sex. He was released physically unharmed in Red River Parish, police said. In the Holidome incident, a witness got a license plate from a vehicle leaving the area, but Shreveport police were not notified. Authorities said Tuesday they have not been able to locate the girl.

After the kidnapping from the Ramada Inn on Monkhouse, a composite drawing of the kidnapper was circulated to area motels, and authorities said they learned of the Holidome incident. Bossier City police received a composite drawing of a man wanted in connection with the nationally publicized abduction of 12-year-old Jacob Wetterling, who was kidnapped Oct. 22 in St. Cloud, as he and friends rode bicycles home from a convenience store. Vachuska is not considered a likely suspect in the Minnesota case, because it happened a few hours after the young girl was abducted in Shreveport.

"I'm not optimistic this is the guy," said FBI agent Mike Kahoe, a member of the task force. ported missing by her mother when the fifth grader did not come home from school. Police found her bicycle locked to the bike rack at the school, Wilson said. Shortly before the child's disp-pearance she received a telephone calL "The caller said he was a friend or co-worker of the mother and she (the mother) was recently promoted at work and he wanted to buy her a present," Wilson said. Wilson said the caller stressed the importance of keeping the present a surprise and asked Amy to meet him at the Bay Square Shopping Center to pick out a gift.

Bossier City Police Department spokesman John Brann said it would be several days before they know if Ohio investigators will come here to investigate. Vachuska was arrested on a parking lot at LSUS Monday afternoon by Bossier City and FBI investigators, who had been tailing him since Friday. He was booked for kidnapping and oral sexual battery involving the boy, and charges relating to the alleged rape of the girl were added Monday night The Robeline girl was kidnapped from the Ramada Inn, where she and her parents were staying while visiting the Louisiana State Fair. She told police she was walking to the family truck to get a soft drink when a man standing nearby grabbed her and pushed her into his car. Authorities said the child was placed on the floorboard, blindfolded, covered with a sheet and taken to a house, where she was poked with a needle, then raped.

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Students and faculty at Arcadia High School were in a state of disbelief after receiving word of Cole's death Tuesday, Tilley said. "We are sorry it happened, but there's nothing we can do now," Tilley said. The news hit the school's senior class hardest, Tilley said. "The seniors have taken it very hard. This is a real close-knit group," Tilley said.

"There is a lot of grief involved in the senior class. "We have tried to talk to them and explain," Tilley said. "It's hard to explain things like that. It fills your heart no matter how old you are." Continued from Page 1A Witnesses told police that Cole was hit on the head with a baseball bat during the group fight, Abney said. "He was struck on the head, fell to his knees and maybe one or two other kids hit him," Abney said.

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