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Suspect is described as an ordinary person Most female victims were found strangled Experts say most serial killers fit some well-established patterns selecting a certain type of person to target and committing the same type of crime over and over againpage 10A Dee Sumpter remembers the day Henry Louis Wallace hugged her and said he was sorry her daughter had been killed On Sunday Sumpter learned that Wallace who was once her daughter's -boss at Taco Bell was the man charged with strangling herpage 11 A By KEN GARFIELD And HENRY EICHEL Staff Writers The man accused as worst serial killer is the son of a textile worker who grew up in rural South Carolina sailed with the Navy and wound up working in Charlotte fast-food restaurants But despite a lifetime of committing crimes and bouncing around and despite a drug problem he confessed to his mother Henry Louis Wallace was never seen as anything but ordinary by friends and family He even called his mother Lottie Mae Wallace in Barnwell ment officers are looking at their unsolved homicides in search of links Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say the most murders ever charged one person with Acting police chief Jack Boger said police believe they have the man responsible community should feel some sense of he said Police describe Wallace as a crack addict who moved from apartment to apartment and restaurant job to job in the Charlotte area Please see Womenpage 10A SC on Friday just to let her know he was getting by in the big city The next day he was charged with murdering 10 Charlotte women just wanted to let me know he was all said Lottie Mae Wallace who learned of the charges against her son after finishing a 12-hour shift Sunday in the finishing department at the Adams sock manufacturing plant ask for nothing He said might call you Lottie Mae Wallace also said her 28-year-old son ended the conversation on a note of regret: "He said Please see Wallacepage 1 1 A By MARY ELIZABETH DeANGELIS Staff Writer Calling it the worst killing spree in city history police on Sunday charged a fast food worker with the murders of 10 Charlotte women The strangling deaths of three women last week and a fourth last month led police to question Henry Louis Wallace 28 an ex-US Navy serviceman who investigators say knew all the victims Police on Sunday combed woods off Old Statesville Road and found the remains of the 10th victim From South Carolina to Washington state law enforce Wallace Who the 10 victims were and where and when their bodies were foundpage 11A Dannye Romine Powell: Is it possible to track such suspected large-scale evil to small daily 1C LS WIN! WILL i North Carolina 73 Virginia 66 A daybook of coming events LT00AV Crystal ball: At Looking Toward the seminar UNC Charlotte professors discuss area growth and development 5 to 9:30 pm at the Holiday Inn in Cornelius NBA: Hornets vs Boston Celtics 7:35 pm at the Charlotte Coliseum TUESDAY 0 BRACKETS Beware quoth the soothsayer: the ides of March Julius Caesar is assassinated on this day in 44 BC A capsule look at each of the 64 teams LfiMLn Israel bans 2 militant groups Kahane followers sanction violence By MICHAEL PARKS Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM The Israeli government reacting to the massacre two weeks ago of about 30 Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron Sunday outlawed two extremist Jewish groups as organizations" because of their repeated violence against Arabs In banning Kach and Kahane Chai both inspired by the ultranationalist anti-Arab ideology of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane the Cabinet made their leaders subject to 20 years in prison and rank-and-file members estimated to number about 400 liable to five years in jail if they continue their activities Kach saying it would challenge the government order in court responded in a statement: express our disgust at the fascist decision of the government It is a surrender to PLO The decision did appear to be an important step toward meeting demands of the Palestine Liberation Organization that Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza Strip be protected from Israeli settlers operating as vigilantes before talks resume on implementing an accord on Palestinian self-rule The PLO is pressing the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for firmer action in curtailing attacks by Israeli settlers and strengthening day-to-day security for Palestinians before it resumes the negotiations government of Israel intends to continue all measures necessary to ensure security within the boundaries of the Cabinet said in a special communique seeking to assure the Palestinians of greater protection reaffirms its commitment to promote maximum security to all Please see Israelpage 10A I WEDNESDAY Modern troubadours: Sarah McLachlan and Irish quartet The Devlins take the stage at Spirit Square Center for the Arts 8 pm Hope for displaced homemakers: Ceremony for women who have completed the Mecklenburg County Commission program for reentering the job market 1 1 am at the Hal Marshall Building on ryon Street CAROLINAS THURSDAY First-round matchups 0 North Carolina vs Liberty Friday Landover Md 0 Duke vs Texas Southern Friday St Petersburg Fla 0 Wake Forest vs College of Charleston Thursday Lexington Ky 0 Arkansas Friday Oklahoma City the green: St Day On March 1 7 461 according to tradition the patron saint of Ireland died Will she belt out Dang Koko Taylor sings gritty blues at Spirit Square Center for the Arts 8 pm Hockey: Hampton Roads Admirals vs Taylor Charlotte Checkers 7:35 pm at Independence Arena CAVE: Citizens Against Violent Crime meets 7 pm at Park Road YWCA EAST North Carolina Purdue North Jerry Stackhouse most Sunday Stackhouse scored a team-high valuable player of the ACC tournament 14 points and finished the tournament with makes a move to the basket as 47 points and 20 rebounds in three games Junior Burrough (4) and Cornel Parker try "It feels great to finally click like we have to stop him at the Charlotte Coliseum this he said Story page IB FRIDAY Mom always liked you best: The Smothers Brothers mouth off at 7 and 9:30 pm at Spirit Square Center for the Arts Happy birthday Bonnie Blair: The Olympic gold medal speed skater turns 30 Opening at Charlotte movie theaters: "Naked Gun with Leslie Nielsen as bumbling cop Blair with Thora Birch and her mischievous pet and a French film with Juliette Binoche as a troubled woman in love 'ivitnWi-sT' of iik Spring flowers to blanket paths to Coliseum Arkansas ''west'1 Missouri IINsmi By NANCY BRACHEY Start Writer So got 14000 daffodils poking out of the ground and another 14400 tulips rising out of black plastic pots at a south Charlotte garden center Two hundred ten thousand pansy plants carpet a highway interchange near the Charlotte Coliseum hoping it stays cool enough to hold back the cherry blossoms and warm enough to bring out the pansies because everything has to look better than gorgeous in 18 days It seems half the world is coming to Charlotte and the rest will be watching on TV to see these flowers along with three basketball games How do you feel City Horticulturist Marianne Faulkner? gotten to the point 1 have forgotten a sports event" says Faulkner for whom the Final Four is a floral extravaganza When the Final Four comes to Charlotte it Please see Flowerspage 9A SATURDAY 1 Mission of mercy: The American Red Cross begins CPR Week hoping to train 1 000 area residents in cardiopulmonary resuscitation To the NIT Davidson UNC Charlotte and Clemson make the field for the National Invitation TournamentIB Howzabout a little kiss? National Chocolate Week M2B nss Dally through the Final Four Elizabeth Gelgud.