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However, they have determined that the victim died in the spring of 1979 from blows to the head with a blunt in Thii story appear in him Tlmmt regional editions. By DERALD EVERHART St. Pewsburg Times Staff Wrltar WEEKI WACHEE ACRES The "spring of the living mermaids" just down the road received its usual number of tourists one year ago today, but many of them also stopped at a cluttered mobile home in the sandhills that had become the subject of national publicity. On March 21, 1981, as the heavy machinery that had churned up the skeleton of a young woman four days earlier stopped for the weekend, the name Mansfield was splashed across newspapers throughout the country. And Hernando County law enforcement authorities were making a startling prediction: Before they were finished, they would find as many as six skeletons near the back door of the home of William Mansfield 56, who was sitting in prison for sexually violating young girls.

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The count stopped at four, two short of the predictions. BUT TODAY, a year later, some of the residents of the area believe the digging is not finished. Rumors persist in Weeki Wachee that the investigators missed two other skeletons. Billy Mansfield 26, William Mansfield's son, accused of murdering the young women, is in jail in California. He will be transported to Florida for what promises to be the most sensational trial ever in this fast-growing but still rural county.

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Scraping away two inches of soil at a time, the backhoe operator hit something more solid than sand about six feet from the back of the concrete addition. In the sand was a skull that had been turned over by the machine's blade to expose its upper jawbone and teeth. Again the canopy was brought out and again the crime technicians began the meticulous sifting. Digging was hindered by plastic water pipes and electrical wiring to the Mansfields' well pump. It appeared to have America's leader in professional lawn care.

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And when you retire, you'll likely be taxed at a lower rate, because you'll be in a lower Billy Mansfield was in the Santa Cruz (Calif.) County jail during the digging. He has been tried twice and convicted of the murder of a California woman. In connection with the discovery of the bodies in Hernando County, he has been indicted on four first-degree murder charges. He also has been charged with attempted rape in Hernando County and with rape in Ocala. He is scheduled to be sentenced April 6 in Santa Cruz for his conviction in the Dec.

7, 1980 murder of Rene Saling, 29, a Watsonville, Calif, housewife and mother of three. He could be given 25 years to life in prison. Billy will be brought to Hernando. County "by the first of May," Assistant State Attorney Jimmy Brown said Friday. Brown will serve as prosecutor in the plans to go to trial "in August or September," he said.

Listed as a witness for that trial is Billy's brother Gary, 23, who accompanied Billy to California in September 1980. Gary originally was charged as an accessory to Mrs. Saling's murder, but that charge was dropped when he agreed to help prosecutors. "SOME OF THE deputies still feel that there are two bodies buried out there," Dale Barto told the Times Friday as he recalled the six weeks of digging on the land owned by William Mansfield and his wife Virginia. Barto lives in a mobile home on Central Avenue near the property.

"(Sheriffs deputies) have asked me that if any of my dogs brought home any strange-looking bones to call them," Barto said. "Those bodies were only buried 18 inches deep. At that depth, my dogs could dig them up." Brown does not find the rumor hard to believe. "I would not discount the fact that (there) might be more (bodies) out there," Brown said Friday. While the digging was in progress last year, deputies used slender metal rods to probe the land of neighbors, checking indentations and soft spots in the ground.

But they didn't find anything to warrant furthur digging, Hernando Sheriffs Maj. Chuck Crosby said last week. Louis Hotzberger owns property nearby, and he recalled that deputies searched on his land. He has lived on a five-acre tract on the west side of the Mansfield property for the last 15 years. "They say there are two more bodies out there someplace," Holtzberger said Friday.

But unless the sheriffs department gets some new, specific information, investigators have no plans to dig in the neighborhood again, Crosby said. The main reason is the expense, he said. The sheriffs department alone used 2,400 man hours during the six-week investigation, including overtime, he said. "The only effective way of doing it (without knowing specfic locations) would be to do like we did on the Mansfield property," Crosby said." That would mean scraping the ground two inches at a time down to a depth of two feet. This story began the morning of March 16, 1981, when Hernando detectives arrived at the front door of the Mansfields' mobile home and handed Mrs.

Mansfield a warrant to search the property, which is just east of U.S. 19, four miles south of State Road 50. Barto came home from work that night to find the dusty limestone road where he lives crowded with vehicles and neighbors. "I COULDN'T EVEN get into my driveway," he said. So he joined the gathering crowd and watched investigators knock down a plywood and tarpaper storage shed with a large backhoe from the county road department Barto said that he "got a weird feeling" watching the digging.

The investigators worked until past dark amid wrecked cars, abandoned refrigerators and other assorted junk. Not finding what they had come for, they posted a guard and went home. The next day, digging north of and be been installed after the body was buried. Investigators had the pipes and wiring removed, and that action brought Mrs. Mansfield and one of her sons out of the mobile home to complain to reporters.

Throughout the digging, Mrs. Mansfield and some of her seven children could be seen watching from windows. Soon the investigators found the remains of Elaine Zeigler, a 15-year-old Warren, Ohio girl who disappeared from a campground near Brooksville on New Year's Eve 1975. Miss Zeigler's name was on the original search warrant Her body was tentatively identified through rings found in the grave. Miss Zeigler's body was positively identified when dental records were flown in from her hometown dentist and matched the false tooth in the jawbone.

Forensic anthropologists later determined that Miss Zeigler died of multiple penetrating wounds to the head. On April 3 the machines uncovered another body about 75 yards from the back of the house. It was far less decomposed than the previous two. POLICE STILL have not identified the body, which they describe as that of a white female, 16 to 18 years old, with dark hair. It has not been determined how she died.

However, as crime technicans removed the remains, they also removed three pieces of wire, one wrapped around a wrist, that investigators believe was "used to tie the victim," according to court records. On April 7, a fourth skeleton was unearthed less than 15 feet from the third. Investigators soon confirmed that the body was that of Sandra Jean Graham, 21, of Tampa. The cause of death was strangulation. Miss Graham, who worked as a secretary at the Hillsborough Community College, was last seen leaving Pam's Liquor Lounge on Hillsborough Avenue just after midnight April 27, 1980.

According to investigators, witnesses say Billy Mansfield was at the bar the night Miss Graham disappeared. Although digging continued for nine more days, no more bodies were found. Investigators finally packed up their equipment on April 16 and left A Pat Fleck Realty sign is in front of the Mansfield homestead now. Four acres are for sale at $6,000 each, Mrs. Fleck said last week.

The Mansfields bought the land in 1973 after they moved from Grand Rapids, where the elder Mansfield served a prison sentence for armed robbery in the early 1950s. He was confined to the State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson. 1. When only one spouse has earnings and they file a joint return. 2.

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The law requires substantial interest and tax penalties for withdrawals from an IRA prior to age 59ft. ika investment opportunities improve cirmtf tfrtftv rwn lntt mnrrv C'S I llllii i BILLY SPENT nearly a year in the same prison in 1979 for the rape of two women. William, 56, is now serving a 30-year sentence at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford for his conviction in November 1980 on four sex charges involving young girls in Hernando County. Meanwhile, Mrs. Mansfield, a former cocktail waitress at a local motel, continues to live in the family's mobile home.

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