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The Tampa Tribunei
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THE TAMPA TRIBUNE-TIMES. Sunday, August 21. 1983 5-B Woman's walk home was a mistake 14K Gold Jewelry 40-6 1 Off Choose from our huge selection of fine Hkgold jewelry for men and women. Rings, bangles, bracelets, earrings and of course, chains all at savings of 40-61. 18" Uaht Cobra Req.

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McClellan said she doesn't know what to do with it McClellan last saw Grams at 9:10 p.m. when both women left the mall to go to home. "The next morning my brother-in-law called me and said they had found a body about a block away from my house," McClellan said. "I just got this awful feeling that it was Barbara. "I walked down there and saw the police, I explained to them who I was and they started asking me questions," said McClellan, still shaken by the experience.

"The cops kept shaking their heads, and then they took pictures of her, and I knew it was Barbara," she said. McClellan remembered her as a "happy girl, with pretty eyes. She always talked and joked when we were working." Grams had no steady boyfriends, McClellan said. "And nobody, that I know, that had it in for her. She had no enemies." The victim's father, Adam F.

Grams, 7805 N. Woodlyne declined comment Grams did not live with her family. She was found by a gardener working in a yard outside the brown, stucco office of Dr. Antonio Abay at 3911 North Boulevard, a block away from her home. Her head had been severely beaten.

"There are no new leads on the case," said Tampa police spokesman Johnny Barker. By ANNA MARIA CUADAYOL Tribune Staff Writer Self-conscious about her weight, Barbara Grams usually walked home for the exercise. It may have cost the 20-year-old Tampa woman her life. Grams was found beaten to death in the backyard lot of a Tampa dentist's office on North Boulevard Friday morning. "She was always worried about her weight," said Anna McClellan, a friend and co-worker.

"She thought she was overweight, but she was about the right size for her height. "That's why she was walking home that night." Grams was the assistant manager of The Hot Potato at Tampa Bay Mall, where she had worked for the last two years. McClellan said Grams used to walk the hour-and-a-half long trek home almost every night, though McClellan and her husband lived in the same neighbor 15" Serpentine Reg. $60 NOW $23.40 Stage fright can be turned into stage success Tampa Bay Center University Square Mall, (New Concourse near Burdines) Bradenton Clearwater Ft. Myers Naples Port Richey St.

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