The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 97

Bill Braucher2B Deaths4B 0 Sunday May 27 1984 The Miami Herald P8 Section guy exhausts Death Row appeals Walter Ilyankoff opened the back door Alvin Ford opened fire with the 357 One shot hit the midsection another his chest Vv mmrnm By PHILIP WARD Herald Staff Writer His photograph etched in metal and affixed to a wall looks out onto the first-floor lobby of the Fort Lauderdale police station Most of the police officers who work there these days never knew him They may have heard about the man in the photograph most cops know the story when one of their own dies in the line of duty but he has been dead now nearly 10 years They rarely glance at his photo when they pass Those who do remember Dmitri Walter Ilyankoff are waiting anxiously even hopefully for 7 am Thursday when Alvin Ford the man who murdered Ilyankoff during an armed robbery in 1974 is scheduled to die in electric chair hope he Officer Michael Kent said for Officer James Dodgen said be so Mark Ilyankoff said from Pittsburgh heart still bleeds for my widow Mary Anne blaming emotion would speak only through a friend Ford Scotticraft he named Wahoo Willie We used to run over to the Bahamas all the enjoyed the good Dodgen said A few years before his death idea of a better life was the apartment complex he tried to buy The deal fell through and left him broke still had a good sense of humor Kent said instance go to a disturbance and Walter would begin talking Russian he was very fluent in Russian and the people would just stare wondering what the hell was going on and forget what they were fighting Alvin Bernard Ford born 30 years ago in New York to migrant farmworkers grew up fighting for survival When he was a 17 his drunken father left him in Palmetto a tiny town on western coast with his mother five younger siblings and some heavy responsibilites Please turn to FORD2B Ilyankoff Ford They all lived in a waterfront home with easy access to the ocean that was their passion "Walt was an eight-hour cop just like most of Dodgen said rest of the time he spent on his boat He loved anything to do with the always wanted to come to this said Kent partner now in the marine patrol loved to fish His last boat was a 29-foot denied me of my husband and denied my son a the friend quoted her as saying Ford denied me In July 1974 Walter Ilyankoff son of Russian immigrants and a former Pittsburgh cabdriver thought he had everything At 40 he had put in 15 years as a city policeman his marriage was 20 years old and his son was 18 Around the Ilcgion Crime tips pour in not funds body ordered exhumed after charge At the time it appeared that 2-year-old Ryan Chadwick Carson died of epiglotitis a medical condition that causes choking But last month nearly one year after death his mother Linda was charged with attempted murder for choking a 5-month-old boy she was baby-sitting Now at the request of the state attorney and the medical examiner Broward Circuit Court Judge Leonard Fleet has ordered body exhumed so authorities can reinvestigate his death When he died on May 22 1983 at Memorial Hospital in Hollywood the medical office saw no reason to investigate the death as suspicious An estimated 10 to 15 Broward children die each year of epiglotitis a swelling of the flap of tissue that covers the windpipe But after he learned that 39-year-old mother was charged with attempting to choke another child Medical Examiner Ronald Wright requested exhumation so he could perform an autopsy No date has yet been set for that procedure tattooed body found in Waterway The body of an unidentified man was found floating in the Intracoastal Waterway Saturday morning by a fisherman Fort Lauderdale police said The body was found near the 500 block of Bayshore Drive about 7 am a police spokeswoman said Police described the victim as white in his early to mid-20s with brown hair and eyes He was five feet nine inches tall and weighed 162 pounds He was wearing a pair of beige swimming trunks with the label in the back The victim has a tattoo on the lower left arm that says to fly On the upper right arm is a tattoo of a skull and a red beret with the words included The cause of death has not been determined pending the results of an autopsy by the Broward medical examiner Persons with information are asked to call the Fort Lauderdale police homicide division at 761-2326 or missing persons at 761-2381 Two men suspected in credit thefts FORT PIERCE One man has been arrested and another is being sought for grand theft in connection with an apparent credit scam that may have-bilked several local companies of more than $15000 Police said Willard Husky Jr of Fort Pierce has been arrested and a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Richard Crow Jr also of Fort Pierce The two allegedly purchased building materials from several companies and billed the cost to the Fruit Co which had not authorized the purchases police said Husky was released from the St Lucie County Jail on $5000 bond Saturday Okeechobee man killed in hit-and-run incident OKEECHOBEE A 19-year-old Okeechobee man was killed Saturday morning after he was struck by a vehicle that sped away from the scene The Florida Highway Patrol said Ladon Strickland 3932 28th St was killed and found lying in the middle of 28th Street Southwest about 2:40 am The death was the ninth traffic fatality in Okeechobee County this year The FHP has no clues to the driver of the vehicle By EDNA BUCHANAN Herald Staff Writer Crime Stoppers Anonymous is flat broke The successful telephone crime-tips reward program that in 2l2 years has resulted in 620 arrests many for murder is $400 overdrawn at Southeast Bank A caller who dialed 326-TIPS with information that led to the arrest of Herbert Henderson on first-degree murder charges last month is still waiting for his $1000 reward An armed robbery-kidnapping suspect who was caught recently not have been arrested without the said police The tipster has not been paid his $500 reward been told yet going to be put on Crime Stoppers chairman Roger Fritze said Saturday a crisis It be The tipsters he vowed will be paid still encouraging callers find a first priority will be to pay the Fritze chairman during the flush first year with $80000 in contributions and high interest rates recently accepted the post again Friday he learned that the program is broke figured we were pretty he said The harried chairman began telephone pleas to local businesses and companies that have benefitted directly from information obtained through Crime Stoppers A recent tip resulted in the recovery of $50000 worth of property stolen from JC Other tips got back $150000 in clothing stolen from Burdines The program has recovered more than $5 million in property and narcotics looking for a Fritze said It will not be the the Crime Commission would put the Crime Commission out of Fritze said budget is Crime Stoppers is broke Fritze said because face it we perform a maintenance The reward committee was giving money away but nobody was raising funds money dwindled and nobody noticed our fault got to correct he said When he was chairman the first year the program was launched with a $50000 contribution from the Bellamy Foundation $10000 each from U-Tote-M and Winn-Dixie stores and numerous other donations The program enables citizens with information about crime but reluctant to become involved to dial 326-TIPS and talk anonymously to a police officer The caller is assigned a number If the tip leads to an arrest the caller can use that number to claim the reward from any Southeast Bank branch The program was an immediate success Twenty-two suspects were arrested the first month No one is paid a salary Police officers man the telephones Expenses phone lines county computer fees photocopying and office supplies cost about $15000 a year Most of the money goes for rewards ranging from $100 for a forger and $1000 for killers and rapists Tipsters have solved Wells Fargo robberies multiple murders rapes and food stamp thefts A Crime Stoppers tip resulted in the arrest of the notorious Toothed suspected in a series of murders rapes kidnappings and robberies The suspect an ex-convict allegedly kidnapped women at knifepoint from hospital and shopping center parking lots Two victims were found dead in their car at the bottom of a lake With more than 620 cases there have been two acquittals Public participation continues to mount Many callers do not even ask for the reward they seek only anonymity Crime Stoppers drew 10000 calls the first year 12500 the second and 11000 so far in the third year of operation Attorney Hank Adorno was chairman the second year personally wrote he said people who recovered property due to Crime Stoppers asking donations I think I got one response a volunteer organization It have the money to hire a public relations Adorno turned over the chairmanship six months ago to John Ammarell a former FBI man Ammarell has accepted a job as acting president of a South Carolina college and is leaving town Unaware of the crisis Fritze a security coordinator for Florida Power and Light Co again accepted the job Good news for Miami a drop in the crime rate may have been bad new for Crime Stoppers creating apathy among contributors Fritze said not on the front pages People realize that we have to have a maintenance program to keep the crime rate down Instead of reacting when the crime rate goes up why we be pro-active and pursue WALTER MICHOT I Miami Herald Staff Drizzly goodbye Lynn Fetscher and her daughter Jill 2 huddle under a pancho at a Hallandale High School football jamboree the last of the school year and the last for Hallandale High which is scheduled to close for good after this semester The students have organized demonstrations and attended meetings to protest the closing They were expected to turn out en masse for the last football game but the game was rained out Friday night and few attended the jamboree on a drizzly Saturday morning Inmate 65 dies in fight for robe By RA ZALDIVAR Herald Staff Writer A 62-year-old Dade County Jail inmate kept naked while under psychiatric observation died after being pummelled in a fight over his 20-year-old robe Metro-Dade police said Saturday Orlando Alvarez died Thursday of pneumonia that developed after his ribs were broken during the fight early Monday He had never been in jail before police said Alvarez was arrested May 18 after a violent argument with his 71-year-old wife in their apartment at 322 SW 17th Ave in Little Havana He had a history of psychiatric problems and was in poor physical health his family said His widow Isabel said she had been trying to find out what happened to her husband all week and was told only that he was at Jackson Memorial Hospital and could not receive visits She did not learn about the beating until Saturday she said when police told her that her husband was dead could they put a sick man of 65 years of age in with a young she asked The cellmate Lorenzo Pringle of 1445 NW First Ct has been charged with second-degree murder in the beating police said Pringle also a psychiatric inmate was in jail accused of sex offenses against children and indecent exposure Metro homicide detective Alex Alvarez who is no relation to the victim said the beating took place between 2 and 7 am Monday in a psychiatric cell on the first floor of the jail The last time the widow saw her husband he was being led away in his underwear by Miami police She said he had shoved her against the furniture during an argument Frightened she ran out of their first-floor apartment and asked a neighbor to call the police told the police to be careful with she said On Thursday the day her husband died she said she had been at Jackson Memorial Hospital all afternoon they let me see she asked Jail officials had no comment Saturday on the incident As a safety measure psychiatric inmates are required to take off all their clothing detective Alvarez said Robes brought in by friends or family mem bers are permitted he said were both naked except for a robe Pringle was said detective Alvarez The fight began when the victim came over to Pringle squatted on him and tore at his robe Pringle pushed him off and went to another corner of the cell victim followed and then he took robe and started to tear detective Alvarez said Pringle then allegedly turned on the older man punching him in the face and chest until he collapsed "The victim offered no the detective said Inmate Alvarez was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital after guards making their morning rounds discovered that he had been hurt He said nothing about the beating was conscious but he the detective said Police explain why the victim tried to rip his robe know what he detective Alvarez said Said the widow: didn't steal he hurt anyone his only problem was with i.