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A-4 Sunday, April 7, 1991 THE COURIER-NEWS DEATHS MOTHER MOURNS HER SON This letter was written by the mother of Gary Farmer, who was found shot to death at a Bloomsbury truck stop in February. John Fautenberry has been charged with murder and robbery in connection with Farmer's death. This letter was written to Courier-News staff writer David P. Willis, who had Interviewed Farmer about her son. On March 26, Fautenberry was charged with murder and robbery in connection with Farmer's death.

A grand jury here has not considered the case. Fautenberry has been indicted on murder charges in the deaths of Guthrie, Daron and Diffee. Clackamas County, police have not obtained an indictment in the Nutley death. Which state goes first? A trial in the Diffee slaying has been scheduled for July 22 in Alaska. If he is convicted there, where there is no death penalty, the maximum sentence that Fautenberry could receive is life in prison.

Oregon was the first state to indict him, but prosecutors don't know which state would be next to try him if he is extradited. Prosecutors from each of the" states that have charges pending against him will determine that in a future conference, Ransavage said. Oregon has the death penalty, death sentences there have neveiv been upheld on appeal. Ohio and New" Jersey also have the death penalty. Ransavage said her office will rev quest that Fautenberry be transferred to New Jersey.

"The citizens of Hunterdon County and of New Jersey recognize (the need to) prosecute any murder that occurs in our county and in our state. We don't want other states to seek -justice and retribution for us," Ran---savage said. 1 Police from across nation interested in accused man Police say Fautenberry shot Daron, dumped his body by the side of the road, took his credit cards and stole his car. Police say he used the credit cards to pay for hotels, signing his name in the register when checking into a Portland hotel with a stolen card. Authorities say Fautenberry drove Daron's car to Oregon, where he has a girlfriend.

Another woman was seen with him several times, most recently Feb. 26, shortly before she was reported missing. Christine Guthrie, a 32-year-old bank teller, last was seen with Fautenberry when he checked into the Silver Sands Motel in Rockaway, at 3 a.m. that day, Portland police Sgt. Derrick Foxworth said.

Her decomposed, fully clothed body was found last week in woods about 25 miles from Portland. She had been shot in the head several times, police say. There was no evidence of sexual assault. Portland police have charged Fautenberry with murder, theft and kidnapping in the Guthrie case. Ransavage, the Hunterdon County prosecutor, in a recent interview said police in Oregon have interviewed Fautenberry's girlfriend there.

Police say Fautenberry then used Guthrie's bank cards to withdraw money from automatic teller machines. Juneau police Capt. Mel Per-sonett said he abandoned Daron's car at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and flew to Juneau. In a bar at a city hotel, he met a local fishing captain who offered him work, police said. Fautenberry spent a week on a fishing boat.

Jefferson Diffee was a gold- and silver-mine worker. On March 14, the day after Fautenberry returned to shore, the two met in a bar. Juneau police say Fautenberry stabbed Diffee to death that night. Two days later, he was arrested at the Bergman Hotel in Juneau based on a description provided by Portland police. A search turned up Farmer's wallet, penknife and watch, which gave Hunterdon County investigators the first break in what until then had been a dead-end case.

Continued from Page A-1 cally quiet," Fautenberry has little, contact with other inmates and is permitted to leave his 1-man cell only in shackles for a shower and recreation. Fautenberry is a big man: 6-foot-3 and about 220 pounds. He's single, 27 born on the Fourth of July and apparently served in the Navy, although complete military records were not available. He was born in New London, and moved with his family to North Kingstown, R.I., in 1983. He has family in the suburbs of Cincinnati and in Montville, Conn.

His father lived in Oregon. Fautenberry has lived most of his adult life on the road, working as a long-haul trucker and at a series of short-term jobs. He also has tangled with the law. In 1987, he moved to Gresham, to live with his father after he was sentenced to three years' probation in Ohio on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon in his vehicle. He also was fined on a separate assault charge.

In August, police in Ledyard, charged him with creating a public disturbance and he was fined $40. State police there said he was arrested at a local residence. They would not be more specific. The dead and missing Police are searching an area of the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon for the remains of Donald Nutley, who disappeared in November after going trap-shooting with Fautenberry. Police believe that Fautenberry may be connected to the disappearance of Nutley, a resident of Waco, Texas.

The two met at a Troutdale, truck stop and reportedly went trap-shooting together. Last week, searchers found several human bones, not enough for positive identification. "Until we come up with something By lee Mcdonald Courier-News Staff Writer The arrest of John Fautenberry, who has been indicted in three slayings, charged in a fourth and linked to a fifth, has triggered the interest of police investigating scores of unsolved violent deaths throughout the nation. Alaska police, who are holding Fautenberry on $3 million bail, regularly receive requests from police in other states for information about Fautenberry, Juneau police Capt. Mel Personett said.

"They'd love to know where he's been and at what time, but that's something we're still figuring out." In Hunterdon County, the body of Donna Marie Watson of Allentown, was found more than two years ago at a truck stop only 100 yards from the spot where the body of Gary Farmer, 26, of Springfield, was found Feb. 5. Fautenberry has been charged with murder and robbery in connection with Farmer's death. The marks of a serial killer are elusive SERIAL KILLERS A look at some who have links to New Jersey. This picture is about four years old but the only difference in his looks is that he kept his hair cut real short now.

He always smiled. Our hearts are broken. We as a family usually spent Sundays together with me cooking a big Sunday dinner. Yesterday was Easter and we spent the day with Gary at the cemetery. He was so kind and gentle, always smiling.

He never drank alcohol or smoked or cursed. When he wasn't on the road he went to church. We are only poor country people that never had money but we were blessed with love for each other. I want you to write our story in case there is someone out there that has killed or is even thinking about killing they will maybe think twice about what they do to a family. Please pray for me Mrs.

Charlene Farmer that this is or this isn't, we can't even speculate that those bones belong to Nutley," said Sgt. Michael Michado of the Clackamas County (Ore.) Sheriff's Department. By January, Fautenberry had traveled back across the country, visiting a girlfriend in Connecticut. He was returning from Connecticut to his sister's home in Clermont County, Ohio, when he met Gary Farmer, 26, of Springfield, police said. Farmer stopped at the Pilot Truck Stop off Interstate 78 in Bloomsbury on his way to Zion, with a load of trash.

He had resumed truck driving around Christmastime. "He probably was stopping to rest and get breakfast," Hunterdon County Prosecutor Sharon Ransavage said. Farmer was shot once in the head Feb. 1, his body left for four days in his still-idling truck before it was discovered by another trucker and police. TYPES OF MURDER The National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime defines types of murder as follows: Mass murder: Four or more victims at one location within one event.

Serial murder: Three or more separate events with a cooling-off period between homicides. Spree murder Killings at two or more locations with no cooling-off period between murders. The killings all are the result of a single event; the spree can be of short or long duration. curious about those who murder with regularity. The National Center for the Analysis of Crime defines murderers with calculated precision.

One characteristic of serial killers is clear: They usually kill at least two or three times, with a "cooling off" period in between, said Kelly Cibulas of the crime center, based in Quan-tico, Va. Burgess said the thrill of lulling another human being is the primary motive for serial killers. "It's the feeling of power and control over another person's existence," she said. "It's the combination of aggression and the need for power and control that leads to violence." Authorities say serial killer Richard Bieganwald was hunting someone to kill when he lured 18-year-old Anna M. Olesiewicz from the Asbury Park boardwalk one August night in 1982 and shot her in the head.

Paroled from prison in 1975, Bieganwald was accused of killing five more people before he was convicted of murder again in 1983. Between 35 and 40 serial killers All your electrlcalASL 218-9449 1 RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL 753-65531 Licensed 9131 I 'INDUSTRY coupon expttes 7491 FRANK W1INEO Electrical Contractor. Inc. "OKO OFF yf CaU i naali I I PftMMCDfMAI i vwimvikiiwinb 7491 Farmer's mother said the lock on her son's cab was jarred, but Ransavage would not confirm that or say whether there had been a struggle. She also would not say whether Farmer and Fautenberry had known each other.

Police say Fautenberry left New Jersey with Farmer's wallet, watch and penknife and went to the home of his sister Kristine in Ohio. Authorities say he stayed with his sister and her fiance two weeks. Investigations by New Jersey detectives sent to Ohio have turned up ammunition, personal papers, maps, cash-machine receipts and other information now being used to reconstruct his travels. During Fautenberry's stay in Ohio, his truck was repossessed. On Feb.

17, Joseph Daron an insurance supervisor, was found dead at a remote area of Route 52 outside Cincinnati. are believed to be roaming the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, although law enforcement analysts say the number could be higher. The number of victims is more difficult to calculate. The nature of serial killings means that the murders may go undetected for years, often until a hunter stumbles over a shallow wooded grave or a fishing line snares a corpse.

Some crime experts say Bundy, who used his looks and charm to lure his victims to their deaths, may have killed as many as 100 women before he was captured. He was executed two years ago in Florida. At one time, Bundy was considered a suspect in the murders of two New Jersey girls, who were stabbed to death on Memorial Day 1969 in Atlantic County. No connection was made. Experts say serial killers seldom know their victims.

In many respects, they lead normal lives when they are not in the killing mode, said Pierce Brooks, a leading expert on serial murders. Brooks, of Vida, is credited with coining the term in the 1970s while he was a Los Angeles homicide detective. "Serial killers could be anybody even the guy next door," Brooks said. Brooks said the common stereotype for serial killers is that they are middle-class, white males who possess above-average intelligence. "I'd say if there was one, it is that.

But there is no real single mold. To really understand a killer, you must look at the behavior of the crime." But experts say female serial killers are rare. Brooks said he reached a point when he knew by the murder scene "who did it before and who would do it again." "You see a pattern set," he said. While there seldom is a prior relationship between serial killers and their victims, there are exceptions to the rule, he added. Because often little connects them to the crime, serial killers are the most elusive kind of criminal, said Brooks, who worked as a consultant ASK ABOUT OUR SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT: Plui Vila mil MaitiiCard, So far, there is little to connect the killings of Farmer and Watson, both of whom were found shot to death, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Sharon Ransavage said.

The FBI has been provided with information about Fautenberry for. use in its recently formed national, computer crime databank, operated by the National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime in Quantico, Personett said. The purpose of the computer network is to catalog crimes, determine-whether patterns exist and provide1 police with reports of crimes of simi- -lar type or location. But the FBI is not investigating Fautenberry, who would have committed a federal crime only if prosecutors proved that he transported victims across state lines or violated a law involving federal property, said' Drucilla Wells, a spokeswoman in the FBI's Newark office." "But if there's any information in our system that's of use to other law enforcement about this case, I'm sure we'll be helping provide that to any interested department," she said. Parsippany Hills High School, who disappeared from the Morris County mall where she worked.

Two days later, her body was found in a reservoir holding tank in Randolph. A Superior Court overturned Koeda-tich's death sentence last year In return for a life sentence. marked the second time that a jury declined to sentence him to death. RICHARD KUKLINSKI: Kukllnski of North Jersey, accused of five murders, liked to experiment. He poisoned two of his victims and shot two others.

The body of the fifth hasn't been recovered. Police called him "The Iceman" after he stored one body In a freezer. He was convicted in 1988 in Bergen County and given two consecutive life terms. i TED BUNDY: Some say the charismatic former law student may have killed as many as 100 young women before he was captured. He was put to death Jan.

24, 1989, in Florida. At one time, Bundy also was considered a suspect in the murders of two New Jersey girls, who were stabbed to death Memorial Day 1969 in Atlantic County. No connection was made. Bundy was convicted in the 1978 rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Florida. Four days before his execution in an electric chair, he confessed to 23 murders in the 1970s in Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Washington.

DAVID BERKOWITZ: Also known as Son of Sam, Berkowitz, a former postal worker from Yonkers, N.Y., was 24 when he admitted killing six people and wounding seven others during a year-long shooting rampage that terrorized New York City from 1976 to his arrest the next year. Using the name Son of Sam in signed letters to the press and police, Berkowitz said he acted at the orders of a neighbor's dog. A gun was used to kill young couples, many sitting together in parked cars. Five women and one man died. Two years after he was sentenced to 315 years in prison, Berkowitz said he did not act alone and that the killings were tied to a cult.

(fatten Bedminster Medical Plaza 1 Robertson Rd, Suite Bedminster, N.J. 07921 (908) 234-9503 RICHARD BIEGANWALD: Authorities say Bieganwald was hunting someone to kill when he lured 18-year-old Anna M. Olesiewicz from the Asbury Park boardwalk one August night in 1982 and shot her in the head. More than two years after he was sentenced to death for her slaying, he remains on death row at Trenton State Prison. Bieganwald, 49, has been linked to at least four other slayings.

All were committed after he was paroled in 1 975 after serving nearly 20 years of a life sentence for a 1959 murder of a man during a holdup. In a separate trial, Bieganwald was convicted of killing drug dealer William Ward. The jury In that case sentenced him to 30 years. He also has pleaded guilty to killing two 17-year-old Ocean County girls during the early 1980s and is a suspect in a fifth killing. In January 1989, Bieganwald was sentenced to death by lethal Injection.

Lawyers say the appeal process could take at least until 1995. JOSEPH KALLINGER: A self-described psychotic killer, Kallinger, 53, was convicted of three murders, including his 14-year-old son, in 1975. Other victims included an 11 -year-old boy and a 22-year-old nurse. His victims often were forced to strip at knifepoint, tied up in humiliating positions, sexually abused and threatened with mutilation. Kallinger is serving a life sentence and has spent the past two years at an eastern Pennsylvania mental hospital.

JAMES KOEDATICH: Koedatich, now 42, of Morristown, was convicted in the murders of two women In the Morristown area In late 1982. Both women were abducted and stabbed and one was sexually assaulted. Five months after he was released from a Florida prison after serving his term for a 1970 murder conviction, Koedatich in January 1 983 was arrested and charged in the murder of a 25-year-old Mendham Township waitress, who was found bleeding to death at a rest area on Route 80. Her death came less than two weeks after the abduction and stabbing death of an 18-year-old cheerleader from Great legs By KATHY BALOG Courier-News Staff Writer By the time police found the decomposing body of Gary Farmer in his still-idling tractor-trailer at a Hunterdon County truck stop, the man eventually charged with killing him was hundreds of miles away. A month later, three more people linked to the suspect were dead.

Police believe that John Fautenberry, a 27-year-old drifter, is responsible for 26-year-old Farmer's death in February and at least three others during a cross-country killing spree that allegedly began in November and ended last month with his arrest in Alaska. Meanwhile, police in New Mexico last week captured another man, Eric Napoletano, who is suspected in the slayings of three women, including the killing of his wife last year in Clifton. While the FBI describes Napoletano, 25, as a sexually sadistic serial killer, authorities believe that Fautenberry may have killed for money and credit cards. What triggers a person to kill again and again? "Some people like to kill. And in a lot of cases, the victim plays a lesser role than the high derived from the act of killing," said Ann Burgess, a professor of psychiatric mental health at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied the behavior patterns of serial killers.

For them, murder is an addiction. The Night Stalker. The Zodiac Killer. Son of Sam. Ted Bundy.

Their names stir fear and morbid fascination. Reviled as monsters and viewed as sinister, twisted, coldblooded murderers, people also are Exorcisms OK with NYC hospital official By Newsday NEW YORK Exorcisms and faith-healing are accepted parts of psychiatric treatment in special cases at several Health and Hospitals Corp. hospitals in New York City, Dr. Luis Marcos, senior vice president for mental health, said. "We see exorcism as a culturally relevant way of treating some cases of mental illness," Marcos said Friday.

Faith healers serve as volunteers to Health and Hospitals Corp. and are used only if they agree to tell the patient that it is time to see a doctor once the demons have been exorcized, Marcos said. He could not provide figures on how often such rituals are performed. on the Atlanta child murders, the Green River killings in Seattle and the Tylenol murders in Illinois. In all three cases, there was little to tie the victims to their killer.

That's why prostitutes and hitchhikers have been easy targets of serial killers, Brooks said. "If you were able to bring back one of the victims in the Green River killings (most of whom were prostitutes) to life and ask them the name of their killer, they probably wouldn't know it," he said. Serial killers keep their darkest secret deeply buried, Burgess said. "Let's say that even if a serial killer knows a victim, the victim doesn't a really know them," she said. Many victims are lured to their deaths by a chance meeting, as well as by the killer's cleverness.

"They'd have to have above-average IQs to get away with what they do," Burgess said. "It takes a cognizant function to plan meticulously to kill someone and get away with it." And while many serial killers leave few clues, they often take souvenirs such as clothing or a personal possession from their victims, Burgess added. Bundy said he often revisited wooded spots where he dragged his captives to die. On occasion, before he buried some victims, he'd change their clothing or wash their hair to better conform to his fantasies. "They can live off that reminder for days, hours, years before they kill again," Burgess said.

Most theories link serial killers to abusive and disruptive childhoods, to maternal relationships gone bad, to a critical lack of bonding. Brooks agreed. "If there is a common denominator, it is an abusive childhood. But then, there are other children who grow up in an abusive situation and are OK." Burgess said that in the case of serial killers, normal fantasy turns lethal. "Fantasy is a part of life.

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