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The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 12

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San Bernardino, California
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I 1 i I i Ii i I I 1 en con tend (Ml that I inwi' 1 i i.t i i (JrcsHiwn di.t t. vi-Cj-er- SU 't ly ropreMT.t He con- die vi 1 i.m i tended that because t' 'I i. lea Grossman held bok and publicity rights as part of party to it, he s.e.,1. publicity richts to the his retainer fee from Kearney remains in case, he had a conflict of Kearney. But, he said, the Soledad state prison.

In a letter rH- AfiiT a scries cf trial postponements, Kearney came to JudtTft Hows' courtroom in December 1 -x i i 'j i I i i 1 a. .4 La SALE ENDS 12-3-S1 YSil and pleaded guilty to three murders. The picas took over an hour as 1 lews asked Kearney a series of questions to determine that Kearney knew the consequences of his plea. The guilty pleas were made over the objection of his attorney, Jay P. Grossman of Riverside.

Several weeks later, Kearney was taken to Los Angeles Superior Court, where he pleaded guilty to 18 more murders, again over (he objection of his attorney. During several interviews with detectives, including one in prison after he pleaded guilty, Kearney explained in detail how he found and killed his victims. Detectives said they had no doubts he was the killer, because he knew details FACTORY WARINTIES Yh-T PR0EES 1 -5s i LAY AW AYS A Jtjfji Vj DIGITALS ACCIPTCD fi CAROUSELS XjjZjJ S-rT SHARP CAROUSEL jJZZ-ZZ- j'7Tn CAROLE'S DISCOUNT ARLHOUSi f) AS 6225 TYLER (3 Miles North of the Mall) 354-2734 Cv3 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK JlAJ AP wlrhoto Boyce returns Tuesday hy The Riverside Pn-ss Enterprise, the ex-computer technician said he wants out of prison. "I have another tidbit of news for you," he said. "I didn't kill anybody.

That's al! I'll say at the moment." He also filed a handwritten petition in Riverside Superior Court, asking for release from prison. "The person in custody pled 'guilty' to felonies which he did not commit," he wrote. "The pleas were given due to threats and other forms of duress." Kearney did not elaborate on either allegation. Judge John II. Hews, who sentenced Kearney, turned down the request for release Oct.

31. Kearney, then 41, was arrested in July 1977 by Riverside County sheriff's deputies after a lengthy investigation linking him to the disappearance of dozens of young men and boys. Many of the bodies were found dismembered and sealed inside trash bags. The evidence against him was largely circumstantial. Minute traces of blood in his bathroom matched the blood of one of the victims, John LeMay, 17, found in a trash bag near Corona.

Specks of dog hair and carpet fibers that stuck to the tape sealing the trash bag matched dog hair and carpet samples taken by detectives from Kearney's Redondo Beach house. Kearney and roommate David Hill fled Southern California for several weeks after detectives obtained a warrant for their arrest. But the pair turned themselves in to county sheriff's deputies on July 2, 1977. Convicted spy Christopher Boyce is led to a waiting car at Burbank airport Saturday after his return from Missouri where he underwent medical evaulation. He is awaiting trial on escape charges.

'Mystery' yacht debris found? SOLID OAK TWIST HAT TREE SOLID OAK ROLL TOP DESK SAN FRANCISCO (AP) VOODVORKS IICfiM "IT" CT (2 DOORS DOWN FROM HaOlN. tL Ol. Mc MAHANS SO. OF BASELINE) OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK yyy i i Ls OAK DOUBLE WALL uniT FOR THE VERY BEST AND MOST UNUSUAL WOOD GIFTS ANYWHERE! ported stolen five months ago in Los Angeles and that police suspect an insurance scam. "On a normal boating accident I would be totally positive someone had drowned if the survivors told me," said Coast Guard investigator Rick Hubbard.

"But under these circumstances the only information I have is what Dozier and Russell told me. "So many things they have said so far have been wrong that I can't be sure about this one," said Hubbard. "How can I believe they drowned? How can I believe the boat even sank?" search, said Lt. Steve Branham. Meanwhile, auhorities remained skeptical about the story provided by Robert Dozier and John Paul Russell, who said they swam to shore after their yacht drifted and sank in the surf south of Stinson Beach.

No trace has been found of Suzanne Russell and Kristen Tomlin, who the men said drowned in the accident. Dozier and Russell have vanished, and officials suspect the story of the sinking may have been a hoax. The San Francisco Examiner reported that the Freedom 11 may have been the same boat re 54" OAK CREST Lot TALK-CLOCKS, DINETTE SETS, BURL WOOD TABLES CLOCKS, CHAIRS, MIRRORS, CHESTS, DECOUPAGE, ROOM DIVIDERS! ALL BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED AND REASONABLY PRICED! Divers have recovered debris off Stinson Beach that could be from a yacht wreck like one that reportedly destroyed the controversy-shrouded Freedom II and took the lives of two women, the director of the search said Saturday. Dr. Harold Iloss of Project Tektite, a nonprofit research company, said three pieces of fiberglas hull match the structure of Freedom II, which two survivors said broke up after being rammed by a freighter Nov.

12. Ross said his team also recovered numerous pieces of a yacht's cabin, many unopened beer and soda pop cans, "jillions of plastic bags of all sizes" and spotted a large segment of a yacht's mast. "Either somebody wrecked a boat or took a dump truck out there," said Ross. "You just don't throw stuff like that overboard," Ross' wife, Glenda, said Project Tektite had volunteered its services at the request of the Marin County Sheriff's department. The Coast Guard is not connected with the FREE LECTURE FREE LECTURE EVERYONE IS INVITED A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE "HOW GOD'S PROMISES ARE FULFILLED" NOV.

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