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ft tit ri---- nkir wmn strangled. I By JOHN RANDAZZO and PAUL MESKIL She's 7th sine EUSarch; mm -mm no Biems Younci ay go was found in the shopping mall, he called police and reported her missing. Homicide detectives are looking for the clothes she was wearing when she left home and those she presumably took with her, and for her car, a 1990 red Pinto with New York license 7323 AMF, which she reported missing last week. Her husband, who police said is not a suspect, told newsmen yesterday." argued a lot. We had a rough marriage.

I was seeking a divorce." He added: "It's crazy. Who would do something like this? You never know where it's going to happen next." The Blake home is about three miles from the Far Rockaway, Queens, residence of Patricia Shea, 40, the third woman strangled in New York City last month. Her fully clothed body was found in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Detectives said Blake and Shea both had red hair and similar builds and were about the same age. But there is no known connection between their murders.

A woman' was found strangled yesterday in Yonkers as Nassau County police identified a strangling victim whose nude body had been dumped in a shopping center parking lot The Nassau victim was identified as Maryann Blake, 41, a housewife who disappeared from her apartment in Long Beach, L.I., Sunday night under mysterious circumstances. A policeman found her, body around 2 a.m. Tuesday in a parking lot at Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream. Another strangling victim, a young woman whose naked and battered body was found Tuesday morning in New York Harbor off Brooklyn's 69th St. pier, has not been identified.

Her fingerprints did not match any in police files, indicating she had no local arrest record, police said. While city and Nassau police sought possible links among six females strangled since March, the seventh victim was discovered in Yonkers yesterday. The body of Ruth Turner, a fifth-floor apartment on Monroe Blvd. Blake and her husband, Roger, 48, had been married about two years. Detectives said the couple often quarreled and she frequently went home to her mother.

When his wife returned home after a quarrel two weeks ago, Blake reportedly told his landlady: "My wife is back but we're not going to have any more fights." BLAKE, A maintenance supervisor for several apartment buildings in Manhattan, told police his wife was home when he went to bed around 9 p.m. Sunday. But she was gone when he and his stepdaughter, Gina, 17, woke Monday morning. Her clothes also were gone, he said. A few hours after Mrs.

Blake's body 26, a licensed practical nurse, was found sprawled on her bed in her three-room apartment on N. Broadway by her live-in boyfriend, Ernest Bryant. Her hands and feet were tied and she wore a housedress. THE TASTEFULLY furnished apartment had been ransacked, but there were no signs of a struggle or of forced entry, Detective Sgt Robert Jones said. "Whoever did this was looking for something," he said.

Turner was black. The other strangling victims were white. New York City homicide detectives said they did not think the Yonkers murder was connected to any of the five stranglings in the city or the one in Nassau. Lt Shaun Spillane, chief of the Nassau homicide squad, said Blake lived with her husband and daughter in By JOHN MELIA EO MOLINARI DAILY NEWS ilfeiif Aome for Fire Dept. tSsXISS- Howard Golden, Fire Commissioner Charles J.

Hynes, Council President Carol Bellamy and Controller Harrison J. Goldln at ribbon-cutting ceremony in Brooklyn yesterday. Dignitaries were on hand for opening of Fire Department's new headquarters at 250 Livingston St. The mayor said that Brooklyn Is "an appropriate location for the headquarters of the busiest and best Fire Department In the world." Jersey City police have labeled the death of a Wall Street executive "suspicious." His body was found Tuesday night by friends in a weed-choked abandoned Army base. An autopsy on the body of John Swallow, 42, of Jersey City, an executive vice president at the Wall Street brokerage firm of Bache Halsey Stuart Shields was performed last night at the Hudson County medical examiner's office in Jersey City, police said.

The results of the autopsy are expected today. Police said Swallow was reported missing Monday by friends after he failed to return home from work. The friends then formed a search party for Swallow and decided to check the area near the former Caven Point' Army Base, which Swallow frequented. The base is a popular spot for fishing and crabbing, police said. The friends found Swallow's body shortly before 7 p.m.

in high weeds off an access road to the base. A police spokesman said the case was "suspicious because of the area where the body was found," but declined to comment whether there was1 any evidence of murder. Swallow was a bachelor who had been with the brokerage house for 22 years, according to a company spokesman. He lived with several roommates.a Fumes close Pa. pike Norristown, Pa.

(AP) A tank truck carrying toxic chemicals split open and caught fire yesterday on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, forcing the evacuation of 1,500 people and closing the road for eight hours, officials A stasEnpeotl: Nab quiet man in 14 bank jobs By LARRY SUTTON Seaman nabbed os own 'kidnaper A Coast Guard seaman who allegedly tried to mastermind his own supposed kidnaping was arrested in New Jersey yesterday when he went to collect a $100,000 ransom, the FBI said. The suspect was seized after claiming he had a bomb attached to his body. Mark Pavuk, 20, of Richardson, who was based at the Coast Guard facility on Governors Island, was arrested about 3 p.m. in the parking lot of the Molly Pitcher service area of the New Jersey Turnpike in Cran-bury, said FBI spokesman Michael McDonnell. Richard Rosea When it came to robbing banks, William Lestishock was as quiet as could be, police said yesterday.

-They said he never showed a weapon and announced his robberies with brief notes to the tellers. And if a teller refused to take his note seriously, authorities-said, Lestishock simply left that institution and tried again at another bank. So it was only natural that his capture, after 14 alleged robberies that netted $20,000 in three months, should take place with a minimum of fuss. Ted Farace and Kevin Shay, two Major Case Squad detectives, spotted Lestishock crossing the intersection of 41st St and Park Ave. Tuesday afternoon.

They approached him, told him he was under arrest, and took him off to jail. "HE OFFERED NO RESISTANCE," said Sgt. John Kelly. "He was very calm. There were no problems." Lestishock's string of alleged robberies started May 7 and ended July 30, Kelly said.

Nine of the 14 robbery attempts by the 33-year-old Hackensack, N.J., resident were successful, police said. 1 Lestishock was being held yesterday on robbery charges pending a bail -'hearjng..