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The Salt Lake Tribune UTAWLNIERMOUNTAIN Sunday March 20 1994 Is Serial Killer Stalking Hookers In Great Basin? ficult to pinpoint a cause of death "We suspect she died by strangulation although we have not ruled out gunshots" says Emery County sheriffs Del Bill Dowpara "There are several similarities to the cases in Millard Juab and Elko counties but right now it's just theory" 1 A vont i Pl C' c' A 1 11 '1 4 fat aillt 4 vv: ii ii s- -1 1 c- ft -c I It i iT! L-7''- I 1 i tr i I 'in-- r- II! grA 01 1 i I 1 deor 2:: 44 I 13'itcrt 1 yiIts-1 4er 41-r- 1 ti lr' 4 i---t I It --fr -04 i 1 1 7 I 4 4:111 IPrs 5 Continued from Al Photos or drawings of possible serial-murder victims from left: Vikki Perkins found in Emery County unknown woman in Millard County unknown woman Juab County Linda Sherman St George unknown woman Sweetwater County Wyo unknown woman Elko County Nev to the others)" says St George police Det Dennis Bailey "We ran it by the FBI and while there were similarities to the other cases they did not say for sure that this one was connected" And there is another case that has investigators wondering In March 1992 a trucker parked along 1-80 near Rock Springs Wyo spotted the nude body of a woman in the bushes Sweetwater County Sheriff Gary Bailiff still is trying to find out who she is "We've run her fingerprints dental records sent out fliers went on TV with it but nothing" he says "The best break we got was identifying her tattoo a rose on her chest A guy in Tucson who has a tattoo parlor across from a truck stop remembers doing it for her but he never got a name" While the Wyoming murder is similar in most respects to the Utah and Nevada killings the woman near Rock Springs was killed in an unusual manner Only after a second autopsy did specialists discover she died when a sharp object was forced up her nostril into her brain "It is very peculiar and apparently this method may be taught autopsy ala spe- she died when a Ls forced up her )rain mliar and appar- id may be taught in some form of martial arts" says Bailiff "But we've never run across a case with it before" Utah and Nevada authorities recently compared their cases with three unsolved female homicides in eastern Washington state But Spokane Det Jim Peterson says they do not believe the 1990 shooting deaths of three area prostitutes are related to the Utah and Nevada crimes "Ours were not displayed like those bodies were the caliber of weapon was different and these were all older local prostitutes" he says "We arrested a person for some other major crimes who was convicted and sent to prison whom we have a hunch was responsible for these deaths Everything here stopped after he was charged" But across the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah law officers believe the killer will strike again "Somebody else with another homicide case may find the clue that all the rest of us need to solve these" says Millard County's Det Kimball "Well eventually get him But when and after how many more I don't know" ODD St George Mystery: Another unsolved murder in St George echoes the pattern In April 1991 a landscaper gathering rocks found the body of 32-year-old Linda Sherman a Las Vegas prostitute who had been seen earlier in St George Sherman was lying on her back along a dirt road about two miles east of 1-15 in the Bloomington Hills area She had been killed less than an hour earlier by several small-caliber gunshots to the head Sherman hal been sexually assaulted and was wearing only a sweat shirt although her clothes were piled about 10 feet away Some investigators wonder if the killer was scared off before he could pose the corpse "You could say she was in a display position but it's not identical 1 story last month about the three deaths some 40 viewers sent in ideas and possible clues including one on body positioning "One guy called in didn't leave his name and said to check the bodies in relation to compass points" says Millard County Dd Kimball "But that would only mean something to the killer" A common theory among hives- tigators is that the murderer is a truck driver who picks up women outside the region then dumps 4 their bodies along freeways Al-- though the bodies were found near interstates there are problems with the trucker-killer theory: II Any big rig using the old dirt road where the Juab County victim was found would have left um mistakable tracks in the sage- brush Millard County's victim was shot atop a 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was looking for his wife and acting strangely Employees called a sheriff's deputy The officer who failed to get the man's name questioned him be- fore allowing him to leave Now authorities want to find him Nevada officials also are trying to find an anonymous 911 caller who phoned Elko County on Nov 9 The male caller said he saw two men rolling what he thought was a body up a hill along 1-80 near Wendover Elko County officials combed the area but found nothing The woman's body was discovered Nov 16 Investigators believe they could get a break if one of the three vici tims can be identified They sus-- pect the women might have been prostitutes from outside the re-' gion "Nobody seems to miss these women" says Elko County's Sheriff Harris "A housewife mother or daughter who didn't show up at home would be reported missing" Although facial reconstruction of a decayed body is an inexact science detectives say each woman was attractive and slender And all had caps crowns or fill- ings among their teeth which could help with identification The Juab County victim had such expensive dental work that Sheriff Carter took copies of her charts to the Clark County Dental Association convention in Las Ve gas recently hoping for a lead "At this point anything is worth a shot" he says Fingerprints were taken from the three identically posed vic tims but no matches were found through American and Canadian computer data bases Thousands of fliers with descriptions and kenesses have been mailed and posted around the country "I wish I knew what else to do" says Millard County's Kimball He took the remains of the first victim to the Arizona Museum' human-identification laboratory in Tucson last month to see if fo rensic anthropologist Walter Birkby could provide any clues "If we could just find out who this girl is we would have thing to start on" ODD 4 4- --v--- i 11 1 '1 1 1 VW I' 31 4 C''- 41- 1 -4 ---i ::4 6 1 4 ti 44 1' -A: 4 it'6 4' 4 a 1 5'' 4' 4 4 A 7 '4 1 :1::: -1- 5 T'i 44-''f': 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