Daily News from New York, New York • 141

DAILY NEWS 5 5t UST jr-i fc -J V- i Lf LIVJnCiJ A T'-vMt1 't m- .1. a lira i -m m- Monday, April 13, 1992 UU i -as w- fearful E. Orange after sixth killing By KAREN HUNTER-HODCE and ANDREW KIRTZMAN Daily News Staff Writers With fear growing that a serial killer may be on the loose, the FBI will step in today to help local authorities in East Orange, N.J., where the bodies of six women have been found. The streets of the town were desolate yesterday. Only a few cars passed on roads that normally would have been bustling with Sunday churchgoers.

"I cannot believe this is happening in East Orange," said Fredrica Bey, who lives on Beech St, a few doors from the home of 16-year-old Jamillah Jones, who was found dead at 2:49 a.m. Friday with multiple stab wounds. "This just isn't that 1 HU. mvia.Mai. nn-t VICTIM Jamillah Jones, 16, stood only 4-feet-10.

4' V- r4 i lit 'a sort of town." A task force investigating the killings worked through the weekend following tips to a special hotline, said state police Sgt Daniel Cosgrove. And the FBI's violent crimes task force prepared to join the effort today, an agency spokesman said. Angels hitting town Also today, 50 Guardian Angels will post a 24-hour patrol, dispensing flyers on safety and self-defense and providing escorts near where Jones' body was was found. Residents were shaken when the bodies of three women were discovered Friday within 100 yards of one another. On Wednesday, the body of a woman was found in the basement of an abandoned building where a woman had been found strangled last August On Saturday, the corpse of a sixth woman was discovered on an embankment along Interstate 280.

Family remembers Yesterday, Jones' family struggled with the reality of her death. "She was such a sweet girl, and so popular." said Jones' aunt, Rhonda Kahn. Thursday night, Jones was out with friends, according to Kahn. About 10 p.m. she started home.

A male friend walked her halfway home to Main and Grove Sts. When he got back to his house, he called to see if Jones had made it home. She hadn't. Jones was found at Main and North Maple, six blocks from home. "Why would someone want to hurt her?" Kahn asked.

"She was a good person and so little, only about 4-10, and didn't weigh more than 100 pounds. She had lots of friends, and we always knew where she was." Many East Orange residents say they are heeding the advice of Mayor Cardell Cooper and police to avoid walking alone and after dark. "It's getting bad around here," said incent Eley, 37, a father of five who lives on Shepherd Ave. "It's getting so I don't let my kids out of my sight. I even worry about them going to school." At a community meeting last night several residents voted to ask the city council to help establish a community patrol and to seal the underpass where two bodies were found.

STATE POUCE Sgt. Steve Makuka and dog Buffy search along Interstate 280, wnere sixth victim's body was found, antmonv pescatoke news tos Fin EWi pay lates By BOB KAPPSTATTER "What really is needed is a cohesive plan now to take advantage of what is, in effect, a once-in-a-lifetime sale, where you can buy three bridges for the price of two," said Samuel Schwartz, institute director and author of the Daily News' Gridlock Sam column. "You are getting 50 to 60 off the dollar by investing now and we don't know how long the sale will last" He said funding for projects "should be floated with bond issues and leveraged with federal dollars." City," found that: Construction bids are down 20 to 40. Interest rates for bonds are low. Unemployment rates among construction workers exceed 20.

Investment now can leverage federal transportation and clean air funds. Each $1 billion invested, the report stated, costs roughly $80 million a year in debt service but puts 22,000 people to work and returns up to $80 million in taxes. The investments also reduce emergency repairs, the report said. Daly News Staff Writer The budget is tight, the economy is shaky. But now's still the time for the city to borrow the money to make repairs to its infrastructure its creaky bridges and crumbling roadways according to a report to be released today.

The city could save billions with such a move, according to the Cooper Union Infrastructure Institute's study. The report, "Smart Money: Now is the Time to Invest in the Physical.