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WASHINGTON 10 Advertiser, Lafayette, Nov. 18, 1971 Her' body was found three hours later and five miles away, beside Pennsylvania Avenue, just off the freeway across the District line in Maryland. A bag of sugar and her change were with the body. The girl had been strangled and sexually assaulted. Brenda Denise Woodard, 18, was taken by her father last Monday night to the high school where she attended night Similarity Is Catchword Of Freeway Killings summer at a playground in the area.

In another case that may be related, Dianne Kay Dinnis, 17, of suburban Landover Hllll, Md was last seen May 19 leaving her job at a drug store in shopping center near the place the Woodard girl's body wal found. Five days later her body was found near an intersection near Bowie. She had been beaten and shot. In an unusual appeal for community help. Inspector Pitts said: "Somewhere in this community is an individual who probably has a clue that will help solve this case.

Somebody knows a sex deviate or a child molester. Somebody known something." the other cases. All were youngfound her body. She had been or slight enough of build to be I strangled and sexually mo-taken for about the same age. Jested.

They ranged from 10 to 18. Angela Denise Barnes, 14, i classes. She was last seen on a street corner about 11 p.m. Her body was found Tuesday morn-iing by a patrolling policeman jon a shoulder of the Baltimore-j Washington Parkway. She had (been stabbed six times.

In the i Docket of her coat was the note. Each daeth remains un- left the home of a friend about solved. 11:45 p.m. July 12 to walk the 10 blocks to her home near the Note Found Like the Johnson girl, she had worked as a counselor last The best clue police may freeway. Early the next morn-have is a note found on the lat-jing a motorist spotted her body est body, reportedlv signed I beside a highway near Waldorf, "The Freeway Phantom." Md 25 miles to the south of Police are keeping the con-j Washington.

She had been shot tents of the note as secret as I in the head. by Dick Turr-er CARNIVAL they can, but various sources have said the three scrawled lines on a sheet of white notebook paper link the author to the other five slayings involving Washington girls, and close with the phrase, "Catch me if you can." Body Found Darlenia Denise Johnson, 16, left her home, close by the Spinks home, to walk to her job as a counselor at a nearby recreation center. Eleven days later an electric-company lineman found her body in heavy brush Cannot Overlook Similarities' beside the freeway only yards OtuG lilt llll WWJ 1 1 1 Police aren't saving publicly (he spot vvnere (he Spinks that the cases are connected, WASHINGTON (AP) Carol Denise Spinks set out in the twilight of April 25 to the neighborhood grocery on an errand for her mother and never returned. She was the first known victim of the "freeway killer." Angella Denise Barnes was second, Darlenia Denise Johnson third, then Brenda Fay Crockett and Nenomoshia Yates. Finally, Brenda Dense Woodard's body was found Tuesday morning beside the highway that was their common link to death.

Found Wreck Later The body of the Spinks girl was found a week after she disappeared beside the Anacostia Freeway, the middle link in an expressway span from the lower side of Washington's Bel. tway, through the city's southeast edge and on toward Baltimore. Five of the victims lived near the route, and another who lived in the inner city was found dead near the freeway. Last Seen There may be more. Another slain Washington area girl was found some distance away near Bowie, but she was last seen in May at a shopping center less than a mile from the spot where the latest body was found.

Similarity is the catchword of the case. Four of the victims had the middle name Denise. Another had the similar sounding last name Dinnis. Two started the first name Brenda. Like the Spinks girl, two others were on grocery errands when they disappeared.

All were walking officer. The two suspects (photo below) Robert Westenhaver, 22 (left) and William O'Ha-ra, 37, (right) are led into a Jacksonville police office by detectives. (AP Wirephotos) CHILDREN FOR SALE Two Oklahoma City men were charged at Jacksonville, with offering these children for sale for $7,000 and a used car, Butch Cox, 2, and his sister Teresa, 3, are comforted by a Jacksonville girl had been found. The body was so badly decomposed police could only assume she had been murdered. Brenda Fay Crockett, 10, was sent to a grocery store five blocks from her home in Washington's Northwest the night of July 27.

Her body was found early the next morning on a grassy shoulder alongside the freeway. She had been stran- but D.C. police Inspector Man-Ion Pitts said, "We cannot overlook the similarities," The recurring name Denise and the letter are of particular interest and have led one psychiatrist to postulate that the killer, if it is one person, might have some psychotic hostile association with the name or the letter. Still, the investigators say eietj anc; sexually molested. Attica Prison Accusations Are Denied they also must cope with the Adding a bizarre angle to the possibility that different killers 1 Crockett case are statements may be deliveretely trying to from relatives that the girl had make their own deeds fit the phoned home three times the pattern of earlier cases.

i night of her disappearance. The patterns come from; They reported she told them these sparse facts: a man had picked her up Carol Denise Spinks, 13, after she left home but had sent by her mother at 7 p.m. promised to send her back Sunday April 25, to buy some home by taxicab. TV. dinners.

The following Sat- Nenomoshia Yates, 12, was urday an 11-year-old boy walk- sent to the grocery for a bag of ing beside the busy freeway I sugar about 6:30 p.m. Oct. 1. NEW YORK (AP) Warden Vincent Mancusi of Attica State "Could you describe your husband, Madam?" Open eveRy night untiL ChRistrms someplace. The six girls taken from the District of Columbia, and whose cases bear the greatest resemblance and probability of a common killer, were black.

The other, from suburban Maryland, was white. At least four of the victims were sexually molested, and the possibility is held open in Prison has denied accusations that prisoners were beaten after the September inmate rebellion, and called reports of other abuses "grossly exaggerated." "Any corporal punishment or physical force which is used must be documented," Mancusi told a CBS newsman Wednesday. "And if this happened would know about it, and this has not been so," he said. Responds To Complaints Mancusi responded to complaints voiced by Attica inmates who were allowed to meet with reporters last week for the first time since the uprising was quelled at the cost of 43 lives of prison employes, guards and inmates. Some prisoners said conditions had deteriorated since the riots and that inmates were subjected to verbal and physical abuses.

"If there is a question of ha Local Woman To Attend Ecology Meet Mrs. David Williams, 5 PE El ft Is ft fl 'Lafayette, president, and Mrs. Frank Douglass Metairie, chairman of the study group "This Beleagured Earth," of the Louisiana Division of the American Association of Attempt Made To Eliminate Job Sex Discrimination Mancusi said on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, "1 would say that the harassment is coming much University Women, will attend a two day conference and workshop in Chicago. The workshop is set for Nov. 20 22 at the University of Chicago Center for Continuing Education to help plan effective citizen action in combating environmental degradation.

The conference is being women and of the 10,000 supervisory and managerial personnel, 2.4 per cent were women. "Women in professional positions in these firms, for example, earn $3,000 less than their male counterparts," Norton said. Si more from the inmate population, being heaped upon the officer force, rather than vice versa." 'Very Temperately' Mancusi said the guards "have acted very temperately since the riot." In answer to a question about why prisoners were not allowed to walk to the showers more often, Mancusi observed that Attica is a maximum security prison "and we are dealing NEW YORK (AP) Deputy Mayor Timothy W. Costello today announced new city contract regulations aimed at eliminating sex discrimination by firms doing business with the city. "Companies will now be expected to develop affirmative action plans for employing women which will include numerical goals and timetables, a requirement formerly applied only to racial minorities," he (aid.

Penalties could include withholding payments and contract cosponsored by the AAUW and the Environmental Protection Agency. Discussion will center on the need for legislative and other enforcement action Acupuncture Course Is Established with many, many dangerous men and when the men move from one area to another: they must be escorted and they I imust be watched." and Tokyo who will teach the required if the environment is to be saved. Action ideas will be compiled in a manual to be published by the AAUW. Dr. Anne Campbell of Lincoln.

AAUW President, will open the conference Saturday. The keynote speaker will be Joseph Sax, professor of law at the University of Michigan. He will speak on "A Citizen's View of Bureaucratic Participation in Environmenta 1 Decision Making." 'course. i SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) -iThe University of Washington's I Experimental College opens a course this week in Chinese I acupuncture, the i practice of inserting needles into a patient to alleviate disorders.

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