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2A Fort Lauderdale News, Monday, May 14, 1973 or Death Inside A Blueprint after the slayings. One paper says, "I took the skull and let the ants eat her brains out, if she had any and then I pulled out all the teeth and scatted (sic) them over the county. The lower jaw I buried and the rest of her skull with the face smashed in and the teeth pulled out I put in another canal some 10 miles from the rest of her body. "In all, she is probably scattered over some 20 square miles and I hope she will continue to remain among the ranks of the missing even though there is no possible connection between us." The story of a Broward slaying winds up, "She's still there now in her unmarked grave and sometimes I feel sorry not so much for her as her family because it seems they must have really cared about her. "She was a whore and a tease and was no good "That was the first one and they say the first one is the hardest.

I think there will surely be others." identity of the writer, though police say they appear to have been done by the same person. The sheets have been sent to handwriting experts in Miami and Tallahassee. State Attorney Robert Stone, who is handling the investigation, says of the writings and the crimes, "I don't think the country has ever seen anything of this magnitude." Many of the papers are written first person, describing in the most intricate detail the hangings, death and sexual abuse of women. Some of the stories involve Nazi prostitute-collaborators during World War II but at least one tells of a girl killed near a dirt road off Powerline Road April. 7, police went in with a search warrant.

What they found made even the veteran homicide de- tectives shiver in shock. In a small back room, they found two gold crowned teeth, small bones much like wrist bones, a sorority pin, charm bracelet, a photograph, sketched-over magazine rope, rifles, hunting knives. And they found the manuscripts. Some are typewritten, neatly but with spelling and minor grammatical errors. Others are written in a clean, almost fastidious hand with even spaced loops.

There is nothing on the manuscripts to indicate the By YVETTE CARDOZO Staff Writer On a Saturday in April, Fort Lauderdale policemen unlocked the north Bedroom of a Riverland Road home. Since then, their suspicions have grown that former Wilton Manors policeman Gerard Schaefer might be linked to the deaths of as many as eight Broward County girls. Now they wonder if dozens more women from outside the county and state might not also have fallen victim to the soft-spoken quiet manneered lover of the outdoors. Police are checking Schaefer's links to Georgia Jessup, 16, of Fort Lauderdale and Susan Place, 17, of Oak-land Park whose bodies turned up in Martin County. They are also looking into the deaths of six other Broward women and girls, several more around the state, four in West Virginia and Iowa and still others in Europe and North Africa where Schaefer lived briefly.

Schaefer, 27, lived in his mother's Fort Lauderdale home until his marriage in fall, 1972. Last year, after being fired from the Wilton Manors police force, he became a Martin County deputy and moved to Stuart with his young, pretty wife. Schaefer left behind in his mother's home, a room of personal items. He also left instructions that no one was to open that room. Ever.

Weather Partly sunny through tomorrow with thundershow-ers likely. Highs in mid to upper 80s, low tonight in low 70s. Variable mostly southeast and south winds 10 to occasionally IS mph, gusty near showers. Suspect Held; Out June 15? In Broward County. In all, the writer lingers over his physical description of the hangings, especially the lost control of body functions.

Another paper, only a few pages long, tells the reader how to kill a woman. "In order to remain unapprehended," it begins, "the perpatrator (sic) of an execution-style murder such as I have planned must take precautions. One must think out well in advance a crime of this nature in order for it to work." It continues, "He will need an isolated area, assisable (sic) by car and a short hike, away from any police patrols or parking lovers. The execution site must be carefully arranged for a speedy execution once the victum has arrived. Ideally would be two saw horses with a 2x4 between them.

A noose attached to the overhanging limb of a tree and another rope to pull away from 2x4 preferably by car. A grave must be prepared in advance away from the place of execution. "The victim could be any one of the many women who flock to Miami and Fort Lauderdale during the winter months Still another sheet, one page on unlined paper, says the writer is a university student doing research on capital punishment and asks an unnamed foreign country for detail oh its executions. "I was impressed by statistics that your country has legally, executed almost 2,500 persons since 1911," the paper says. The writer asks for the name, age and sex of those executed, whether hanging is considered the most humane form of execution, how the victims accept their fate.

It also wonders, "Are there any measures taken in regard to bodily excretions such as in England where women were required to wear waterproof underwear?" The story manuscripts tell of hanging women, of shooting them, of hacking them to pieces, of sinking one body in a rockpit lake with a shotgun blast, of having sexual intercourse with bodies months GERARD SCHAEFER gruesome room I a.m. Barometer (Inches) 30.14 Humidity (Per cent) 100 Wind Velocity (mph) Calm Temperatures Bahla Mar 87 73 Ft. Lauderdale 99 74 Plantation 89 65 Hollywood 86 68 PHASES OP THE MOON IstOtr. Full Moon Last Qtr. New Moon May 9 May 16 May 25 May 31 Moonset Today 4:38 a.m.

Moonrlse Tomorrow 6:56 p.m. Sunset Today 7:59 p.m. Sunrise Tomorrow 6:35 a.m. STATE WEATHER Scattered showers and thundershowers central and south portions tonight and tomorrow. A little cooler extreme north portion through tomorrow.

Lows tonight from upper 50s northwest fa mid 70s southeast coast and Keys. Htghs tomorrow from near 90 extreme north to near 90 extreme south. Prec. Apalachicola 82 68 Clewlston 91 66 1.05 Islamorada 85 Jacksonville 88 65 .55 Key West 87 79 Orlando 92 69 .10 Pensacola 81 61 Tallahassee 96 70 Tampa 89 70 .01 West Palm Beach 89 77 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, U.S. Dtpt.

ol Commret mm msai rsam Si LJ LU Pree. Atlanta SO Birmingham 74 48 Boston 67 4t Buffalo 4 42 Charleston, S.C 14 Chicago 54 37 Cincinnati 61 31 Cleveland SO 44 Denver el 39 Oes Moines 67 40 Detroit 41 36 Houston 60 Honolulu 86 Indianapolis 60 35 Kansas City 66 41 Los Angeles 65 57 Memphis 72 51 Milwaukee 49 39 Paul 56 39 New Orleans 75 59 New York 61 50 Omaha 66 39 Philadelphia 69 53 Pittsburgh 54 43 TIDE DATA Today Bahli Hilllboro Mar inlet a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m.

High 6:59 7:37 7:09 7:49 Low 1:12 1:56 Tomorrow a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. High 7:39 8:20 7:50 9:31 Low 1:54 1:44 2:29 2:18 home that night in a small, light blue or white Datsun or Toyota.

Schaefer's car, whose license was noted by Susan Place's mother, is a blue-green Datsun. Police, meanwhile, wonder about Mary Alice Briscolina and Elsie Lina Farmer, both 14, whose decomposed bodies were found in a heavily wooded Plantation site. And they wonder about the unidentified black woman who turned up in woods behind the West Broward Zayres' Store. Police, unable to learn her name even through FBI fingerprint records, have' tagged her Sally Seven (since death is a signal seven in police lingo). Like the women in the she was hanged.

In all, police are checking cases of 28 women and girls in South Florida, four more in West Virginia and Iowa and still more in Europe and North. Africa, where Schaefer once worked. Stone last night stressed a "pattern" in that all the missing women were around the same age, all had left abruptly without notice, all were women. Schaefer was an old friend of Mrs. Bonadies.

He used to play tennis with both her and Miss Hallock. By YVETTE CARDOZO Staff Writer Gerard Schaefer, 27, remains jailed in Martin County though police have yet to charge him with murder and two psychiatrists say he should be in a mental hospital. Schaefer, woh was fired from the Wilton Manors police force and flunked the Broward County sheriffs deputy psychological exam, is in Martin County jail now on charges of tying two teen-age hitchhikers while he was a Martin County deputy. Schaefer admitted handcuffing the two girls and tying them by the neck to trees in an isolated, heavily wooded section of Hutchison Island. The spot is just seven miles south of where the headless scattered remains of Susan Place, 17, Oakland Park and Georgia Jessup, 16, Fort Lauderdale were found.

Investigators say their investigation is not yet complete. "There are so many people and things involved, it just takes time," said chief investigator Lem Brumley. Brumley does not anticipate charges will be placed soon. Just when, he added, "is a good question." Meanwhile, Schaefer's jail sentence runs out June IS. Two psychiatrists say he should be hospitalized for tests but a legal tieup keeps him in jail.

Now, police wonder just how many girls Schaefer might have been involved with and St. Lucie State Attorney Robert E. Stone says it may be "the greatest crime in the history of Florida, even of the United States." When police entered Schaefer's room in Fort Lauderdale, they found many items which appear to link him with missing women in Fort Lauderdale. They also found magazine pictures which show women labeled prostitute, adultress, streetwalker. Each is chesty.

Each has a hangman's noose drawn about her neck. A hazy photograph shows a nude woman's body wedged face down between a tree fork. Police do not know who she is. But they do know that a purse found in the room belonged to either Georgia Jessup or Susan Place. A charm bracelet had the name Leigh etched on a heart.

Leigh Hainline Bona-dies, 25, vanished from her apartment at 2121 Davie Blvd. lillli 30 I I 1 I Rainfall 3 Bahla Mar 08 1.1 8.51 Pt. Lauderdale 00 1.23 9.24 Plantation .00 2.20 9.95 Hollywood 00 3.55 10.74 MARINE FORECAST For the exposed Atlantic coastal waters from Port Canaveral southward through the Florida straits Including the Western Bahamas winds mostly southeast and south 10 to occasionally 15 knots with seas 2 to 3 leet. Winds and seas higher near scattered thunder-showers. For the inland waters along the southeast Florida coast from Lake Worth southward through Blscayne and Florida bays winds mostly southeast and south to occasionally 15 knots with a moderate chop in the afternoons.

Gusty winds and choppy waters near scattered thundershowers. AIR QUALITY INDEX 13 Less than 20 Excellent 20-39 Good 40-59 Fair 60-79 Poor 80-99 Bad 100 and above Dangerous to health Oat From 30 NOAA, local ferecoil "rioting" resulting from an attempt escape from the state prison less than two months later. Freeman was one of six knife-wielding prisoners who took four prison guards hostage in November 1971 and demanded release until 20 specially trained guards armed only with nightsticks and tear gas waded in and rescued the hostages held in the prison hospital ward. Newman said the man injured in the second Raiford fight, Charles Smith, 36, was cut in a battle with Morris Kyle, 32, in the facility's wing. An investigation was into Texas.

coast Inland, parts of Illinois Lake Erie. Freeze Nebraska, Michigan. FigurM Show Lew TamptroturM Expected v-A Until Tuetdoy Morning belated Precipitation Not Indicated- Consult Unseasonably cool temperatures settled over the Midwest early today as widely scattered showers and thundershowers peppered far flung parts of the country. A string of thunderstorms and showers stretched out from southern Oregon through California and across the southern Rockies iiiPPiPPBippi Another band clung to the Atlantic from Florida to Virginia. thundershowers rumbled across and Wisconsin and over warnings were posted for western South Dakota and much of Sept.

8, 1969. She had been married a month. She had known Schaefer since she was 16 and he was 14. Her car was found abandoned in a parking lot near the SE Seventh Ave. boat launching ramp.

She had two weeks pay due her. Two gold crowned teeth have been identified by a dentist as belonging to Carman Marie Hallock, 22, reported missing Dec. 18, 1969 by her ex-husband's sister. Her car was found in a parking lot near George English Park, which also has a launching ramp. At the time, she was living in an apartment at 5110 NE 18th where she left a small puppy and a bath tub filled with water.

She had a week's pay due her. Carman and Leigh, both waitresses, had been approached by a white man who offered a CIA-like job and told them they had to be ready to leave on assignment on the spur of the moment, according to police. The name Carman shows up in one of the manuscripts. A third woman, Belinda Hutchins, 22, was last seen Jan. 4, 1972.

Her husband, an auto mechanic, said she left 1 I 4 I I WWW Raif ord Con Murdered In 2nd Day Of Violence i Ligmning Kills Pitcher Hungry Troopers Win Bread, Pay News Wire Services A convicted Broward County murderer, Jimmy Freeman, was stabbed to death and another Broward County convict seriously injured in a knife fight at the Florida State Prison at Rai-ford last night. It was the second day of convict violence at state institutions, violence one state legislator blames on "unmanageable" conditions. Freeman, 23, of Miami was killed in the prison gymnasium in a knife fight with Ronald Anderson, 21, who was sentenced for burglary in Broward County, said state Department of Corrections spokesman Rex Newman. Anderson underwent surgery for stomach stab wounds last night. Meanwhile, interracial tensions leading to a Saturday night riot at Sumter Correctional Institution at Bushnell, 100 miles south of the main state prison seem to have subsided, prison officials said.

Prison officials disclaimed a connection between the Sumter incident Saturday night and three other stabbing incidents: one at the Raiford prison leading to Freeman's death and another in a prison cellblock injuring a third Raiford prisoner, and the third at the Bradford Correctional Institution near the state prison. Freeman was sentenced to life by Broward County Circuit Judge Arthur J. Franza on Sept. 30, 1971, for the execution-style murder of Michael Charles whose body was found in July 1971 near W. Hollywood Boulevard.

Freeman's sentence also included time for a conviction of under way to determine if the two fights were related and what provoked them. Bradford County prison Superintendent Sidney Fortner said the knifing there involved only white prisoners and there appeared to be no connection with the violence at Bushnell. "I think the corrections people have done the best job they can with what's available, but we have some unmanageable conditions with our corrections facilities," state Sen. Kenneth Myers of Miami said last night. Myers is chairman of the Senate Health and Rehabilitation Services Committee, month and no food for three days marched in from Phnom Baseth, 14 miles to the northwest.

They said they had left their officers behind and threatened to move on Marshal Lon Nol's presidential palace if. the government failed to pay weir wages. They converged on the army pay office, where they were met by the division com-mander, Brig. Gen. Urn Khauv, who promised all would be paid.

The paymaster hastily produced a sack of money and the troops formed up to collect the equivalent of about $17 each one month's pay for an enlisted man. Out of thii he has to buy his own food. John Wade was on the mound for his hometown amateur baseball team pitching against a team from Blythe, Calif. His parents were in the grandstand watching their 19-year-old son from Lake Havasu City, who was a star pitcher last year in his senior year at high school. The Associated Presi PHNOM PENH, Cambodia About S00 Cambodian troops, hungry and unpaid, whooped through Phnom Penh today, firing their guns into the air.

They promptly got a month's pay and some bread to eat. As they straggled past the capital's principal hotel at lunch time, guests dived for cover under restaurant tables and ducked behind trees around the swimming pool. At least two civilians were wounded by ricocheting bullets as the soldiers, clad in fa-t i uniforms and blue scarves, marched through the streets of the capital. Soldiers complaining they had received no pay for a But yesterday's baseball fun turned to tragedy when a bolt of lightning that "looked about two feet wide" fatally struck Wade on the head, photograph above, and scattered other players "all over the field," injuring seven of them. Players and friends wept openly, photo right, as an ambulance left the field with the body of the young pitcher.

A witness said he could feel the static electricity as the bolt passed over the stands and made a loud clap. It burned off part of Wade's hair, clothes and left shoe as it traveled through his body. Wade's teammates were treated at Lake Havasu Com- munity Hospital, where one, Herbert R. Noye, 21, was under intensive care and four others were reported in fair condition. Two others were treated and released.

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