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THE TAMPA TRIBUNE Section QJ Sunday, October 23, 1 983 Fluke led police to Adam's killer I 'is 1 ing-children cases and led to a fac- 4 Toole confessed to a detective who traveled to Raiford to talk to him about another case. The detective then contacted Hollywood police. i i i i I Vs. i iffy iuu( uiama, nuaui, uiai uueu uci, 10 on NBC. Adam's head was found Aug.

10, 1981, two weeks after he disappeared. The rest of his body is still missing. Hollywood Police Chief Sam Martin said Toole had led detectives to the spot where he said he had buried the rest of the child's body. But no additional remains had been found Saturday, and police refused to disclose the location or the progress of the search. Detectives said confessed murderer Henry Lee Lucas tipped them to Toole's involvement.

Ottts Elwood Tooe's rampage Tribune wires HOLLYWOOD, Fla. Police say the man who killed Adam Walsh is behind bars, but the father of the 6-year-old whose murder inspired a federal law and a TV docu-drama said Saturday that his family's nightmare will never end. "My heart will be broken for the rest of my life," a tearful John Walsh told a crowded news conference Saturday at Hollywood police headquarters, across the street from the department store where Adam was last seen alive. "We miss Adam more now than we did when he was first missing, because the reality hadn't set in yet." Adam's mother, Reve Walsh, remained in seclusion Saturday and did not attend the news conference. An inmate who had calmly described killing scores of people broke into sobs as he admitted the 1981 abduction and killing of the gap-toothed little boy, who was decapitated, police announced Friday night.

Ottis Elwood 36, signed a statement saying he snatched Adam from the sidewalk outside the Holly wood Mall, headed north on the Florida Turnpike and later dropped Adam's head in a canal near Vero Beach, officials said. "I'm just glad this individual is off the streets," Walsh said, adding that he believes in the system. "I hope that (Toole) receives due process and I hope that Adam receives some justice." The Hollywood boy's disappearance in July 1981 inspired a law bringing the FBI into play in miss- Police said Ottis Elwood Toole told them he came to South Florida to abduct someone. The abduction of 6-year-old Adam Walsh from a store enraged the nation. See ADAM, Page 10B Rick Barry i 3 i Teeth marks lead police to suspect Police have arrested a 21-year-old Tampa man accused of murdering a woman found beaten and raped in August.

Fine fur may finally make him a fortune By STEVE MOORE Tribune Staff Writer A Tampa man whose teeth impression was matched by a medical examiner to bite marks on the cheek of a murdered Tampa Woman found beaten and. raped in late August was charged Saturday with first-degree murder, police officials said. Robert Earl Duboise, 21, of 1775 W. Hillsborough also was charged with involuntary sexual battery in connection with the death of Barbara Grams, who was killed as she walked home Aug. 18 from her job at a restaurant in Tampa tBay Center.

Grams, an assistant manager at the Hot Potato restaurant, was discovered the next day by a gardener in a yard outside the office of Dr. Antonio Abay at 3911 North 10 blocks from where she lived. She had been beaten on the head and face with a blunt object, police said, declining to comment on the kind of weapon believed used. Duboise was arrested at 4:30 a.m at the Peter Pan Motel, where he had checked in earlier in the day. Police spokesman Johnny Barker refused to say how Duboise had become a suspect or whether police believed he knew Grams, referring questions to the limited information on a criminal affidavit filed at Central Booking at the county jail.

The affidavit stated that on Oct. 13 "an impression of the defendant's teeth were sent to Dr. Richard Souviron (an Dade County assistant medical examiner) for comparison to those found on the defendant on Oct. 21. The defendant's teeth impressions were positively identified as those found on the victim." Contacted at his Coral Gables home, Souviron, a forensic dentist, said he made the match from a See MARKS, Page 2B Charity run for children Saturday was children's day at Horizon Park healthy children were running to help the patients at the Children's Center for Cancer Blood Diseases.

Matthew Arnold, 5, right, takes a breather after his race; Matthew and the unidentified boys above were among the 500 who ran in the 4th Annual Lee Roy Selmon Fun Run. The run was open to boys and girls ages 5 to 18, who were awarded prizes by Buccaneer defensive end Lee Roy Selmon. It was not known Saturday how much was raised, but proceeds go to the children's center, which cares for more than 450 youngsters fighting life-threatening diseases. The Swashbucklers and other Buccaneers were also on hand during the run, that was in memory of Mark Albert Marino this year. Tribune photos by PHIL SHEFFIELD I 1 i i I 1 I 'I i i i v-J Jerry Schouten doesn't forget his old friends.

He doesn't worry much about what other people think, either. Good thing. One of his best friends is John Cook. Cook, who called himself John 3:16 back then, was probably the best known man in SL 1 Petersburg in the early 1970s when Schouten signed on as his music director, organist and booking agent. Cook introduced Schouten to his current wife, Helen, some 12 years ago when Cook was a preacher and she was his secretary.

He married them a few months later. Schouten (he pronounces it SCOUT-in) really admired the high-rolling skid-row evangelist back then, when he ministered to the city's untouchables, when he founded the mission houses to shelter the winos and derelicts. He admired him during the heady days when Brother Cook wore the flashy monogrammed suits and jewelry, drove the. fancy Eldorados, carried the big wad of bills. He stuck by him through the 1979 trials that sapped Cook's strength, much of his pride and most of his reputation.

It was Schouten who posted the $50,000 bond that got him out of jail. And Schouten sticks by him today although Cook is all but penniless, unable to get around very well because of a serious leg injury and forbidden by the terms of his probation from earning money by preaching or even returning to Florida for another six months. And Schouten today is on the verge of making it into the big time himself, and not in the religion biz or music, but in the business world, as an entrepreneur, where three-piece suits and credit lines and reputation get to be important. He's developed an unlikely line of pet care products that brought in more than $500,000 last year. He expects the company will earn more than $1 million this year, $3 million next year.

And John Cook will be the company's national spokesman. "No (his past) doesn't make one bit of -difference to me," Schouten said. "I couldn't care less what the rest of these clowns here think, either. "He's one hell of a guy." Schouten is president and founder of EPPCO Environmental Protection Products of Clearwater manufacturers of Lightning Organic Pet Shampoo and Pet Treatment for dogs and cats. Schouten said he hit on the formula, a mixture of aloe, citronella and bee pollen they say rids pets of fleas, clears up skin irritations and leaves animals' coats smooth and glossy without any harsh chemicals.

Schouten has personaly driven thousands of miles, including a trek from town to town across Texas, his products in tow, with Cook two hours ahead of him. Schouten also takes along his massive 212-pound blue harlequin Great Dane, Hannibal, and sometimes a jet black Persian cat named See BARRY, Page 10B 5 i Democrats wooed by candidates at state convention While Askew needs to win the Florida straw poll, the vote isn't binding and has no bearing on Florida's presidential preference primary. victory in the straw poll "can be just the first of many victories in a campaign that will take us all the way to the White Askew spoke on the need for nuclear arms reductions, making college educations more affordable, on establishing a voluntary program of military and non-military national service for men and women, and in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. "These days I'm often called 'The Different And I hope that I am," Askew said. Without mentioning names, he chastized candidates for bickering over "who's a real Democrat and who's not." By STEVE PIACENTE Tribune Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD When all is over today at the Florida Democratic Party State Convention, former Gov.

Reubin Askew will in all likelihood be able to claim a presidential straw poll victory. But is he the candidate who will have benefited most from the madhouse weekend of banquets, meetings, workshops and partying? Dark horse Askew will haye shown he has support at home, but what about inroads made by others like former Vice President Walter Mondale and U.S. Sen. John Glenn? Both, along with Askew and former Sen. George McGovern, addressed the convention's 2,900 delegates Saturday.

AH except McGovern, who admits he has done their little feud about who's the truer Democrat, and much national attention will undoubtedly be drawn to that matter. Askew spoke last. Orange balloons with his name in black bobbed everywhere, even above the stalls in the rest rooms outside the huge convention hall. The band, which intended to play the theme from "Rocky" for his entrance, got messed up and eventually returned to "Happy Days Are Here Again," the same theme played for everyone else. When all settled down.

Askew said a little in Florida, were received enthusiastically. Fit in between Glenn and Mondale, McGovern said he felt like part of a roast beef sandwich. Laughs followed when he said he was in the middle because he's the "real meat" of the sandwich. McGovern said he would end all military operations in Central America immediately and take advantage of the cease fire in Lebanon to get U.S. Marines out of Beirut.

Mondale and Glenn even got to renew See DEMOCRATS, Page 6B Inside Merkle: He fights tough and aims to win Charles Reid Profiles in St 1 -----H A i fj 1 to drive to work from his modest, 1930s frame home in Clearwater. The car is littered with a disposable "coffee cup and an empty pack of Winston cigarettes and has about .110,000 miles on it. The 39-year-old, federal prosecutor is the area's chief law enforcement official. A prosecutor who hates losing either in the courtroom or on the tennis court. A prosecutor who's competitive and combative and sometimes explosive in the courtroom or on the golf course.

Many people know who Merkle is but not much about him. He became better known after his face was flashed into thousands of Irving rooms on the evening news during a public corruption trial last June and July, and his name and mug shot were thrown on doorsteps Tampa woman beaten at rest area A A 53-year-old woman who stopped on Interstate 4 was beaten with a pipe. A Polk City man was charged in the incident. Canada protests Jaffe charge i Canadian officials insist that Sidney Jaffe is "in unlawful custody" despite his parole. American prefers life in Cuba HyJ A computer programmer accused of hijacking a jet to Cuba wans to stay on the island.

U.S. Attorney Bob Merkle is regarded by some as a tough guy, but a good guy. A blond, Irish charmer, piano player, artist, singer and skilled prosecutor. But wait a minute. There's plenty of others who will tell you, as long as you're not repeating names, that he's really a never-say-die, win-at-any-cost prosecutor who bullies witnesses, defense lawyers and judges and is accused of intimidating and threatening his own prosecutors and federal agents with lie detector tests.

There is one claim he makes that nobody disputes. In 12 years as a prosecutor, he has lost only one case. Even his detractors admire his courtroom skills. When asked how he views himself, Merkle says: "I don't like to toot my horn. But, in candor," he pauses, his head nodding up and down, "(I'm) about as good as you're going to find." Outside the courtroom, he's all Irish: A Gregorian choir chanter, a good Catholic with seven children who wants more, an outspoken critic of abortion who believes the Right to Life movement will become the Civil Rights movement of the 1980s, a singer of Irish ballads and a former running back for the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.

He crams his 6-foot, 2-inch, 235- pound body inside his 1968 Mustang Tribune photo by FRED FOX U.S. Attorney Robert Merkle is described by colleagues as hard-nosed and uncomprising. Merkle admits he's no diplomat. K-' T' "'J.