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Guy Rockwell (right) is led from Court in Seattle alter the Judge ordered him held for trial courtroom So was hia brother Michael child because he mmtrd being a Jew and have more information before entire wardrobes of both women still hanging in closets One dress was identified as a new one that Dolores had Just finbdied On Aug 30 a septic tank sealed with concrete was discovered under the house The Investigators broke It open and dug out what appeared to be fragments of a body' or bodies A few days later two kgs were found mane 200 miles east of Seattle in the CMumbia River near central Wellington sister Mrs Sedye looked at the legs and noted one peculiar upturned toe "They could be Che said But after study FBI pathologists con eluded that the kgs and more than 70 pieces of bones and flesh were "the remains of a young female adult between the agea of 16 and After RockweiTs second wife him he sold her ring to a Seattle schoolteacher and a necklace to a friend of the teacher Police investigated a Up that Rockwell draw a truck to central Washington in the spring of 1960 but thk report was never confirmed It It it A bulletin was Issued by the detective division (homicide detail) of the Seattle Police Department saying that Raoid Guy Rockwell seas wanted tor grand larceny and flint "investigation deflnltriy indicates subject responsible tor double The bulletin also revealed that real name was Rockwell Guy Muldavin not capable of these declared his bride who had gone to Palm Springs CUif "He Is the furthest from bring violent man of anyone I have ever known very gentle very sentimental When angry he do anything He Just pouts until you talk him around again and then he forgets all about And where was the gentle fellow? We know now that on Aug 6 Rocky flew to Reno Calling himself Michael Strong he bought sports ear tor $3000 drove acrora the country to Provincetown Mara and passed himself oil as a writer tor Vancouver newspaper and magazine He wait to New York tor an operation to ztraighten his none After he recovered from this surgery he drove to Key West Fla then back to New York for another nose-straightening operation Under the Michael Strong alias he signed three-year lease on a Greenwich Village apartment And there on Dee 1 1960 police found Mm his dark hair dyed red Rockwell broke down and wept when he was arrested on a warrant charging him with flight to avoid testifying to the mutilation of human He told Herb Swindler the Seattle detective sergeant who came for him that he did not kill his wife or stepdaughter it it After regaining his aplomb the prfeoner intimated that he knew what happened to Manzanita and Dolores but would tel about it orfy when he chose to do so By the time he was returned to Seattle he had recovered Ms old self-confidence He even had his lawyer Leonard Schroder ask a Judge for an injunction to stop police from questioning him in King County Jail "They are attempting to make me content to a crime I did not commit" Rockwell complained The injunction was granted The unlawfid flight charge was dropped King County District Attorney Charles Carroll admitted that he had no evidence to support Charge of murder He could not Identify tiie remains found in the septic tank he eouidd not say how "riie or died and he could not prove who killed "her or them" So last October after 13 months in Jafl Rockwell was brought to trial before Superior Judge Frank Janies on a charge of grand larceny His mother Mrs Sylvia Da Siva Muldavto of New York was In the January 7'L9A2 Muldavin a prominent economist from Sun Diego Evelyn Emerson RockweH chatted with both Now ordinarily defense counsel goes to any length to keep anything unsavory in a defendant's post away from the Jurors if it has nothing to do with the charge against him But Schroder asked the first prospective Juror "Do you think he is a killer and mutilated human There was a loud protest from Anthony Savage Jr who was prosecuting Schroeter replied that he knew this was not a murder trial "but In the minds of most Washington dtisenry Rockwell is accused of a galaxy of honor Mutton and pork and a neighbor's false teeth were found in that tank but no bodies I have evidence that the second Mrs Rockwefl and her daughter were seen in Canada After 12 Juror were seated but not sworn Schroeter said that the defendant waived his right to "fills poison and would depend solely on the wisdom of Judge James Schroeter further said that it was Rockwell not Mrs Winkler who was And so the trial tor the grand larceny of $10000 began it it The Wlidden told tiirir stories and Mre Gregory told hers James Gamer a Vancouver authropolo-gist testified that color slides of Indian artifacts which Rockwell showed the Winklers were actually of a collection that had been broken up and was not for sale The witness conceded that Rockwell had an excellent reputation In (he antique field that few dent era in the Seattle area knew more about Indian artifacts (by Savage) Did he ever ted you he was bon in the south of France? Up Jumped Schroeter to protest If the prosecution got Into "that he argued the trial would last four or five weeks Hie defense lawyer said he want to go Into the psyche "or explain the dynamics of this complicated "Rockwell has amused and delighted people for 10 years with his said Schroeter "No one believed hint There Is a vast difference between the congenital liar and the wonderful storyteller Sure he fabricated and he fabricated incredibly but he ns honest In his The Mghpoint of the trial was Rockwell's own testimony Idling why he was a liar "Jn everything but and how he got Into the mesa he was In It was an astounding defense He mid he got off to a bad start as a a foster child His foster brother Michael Muldavin went through Harvard Law School and then made a name for himself as an ire telligcnce officer on Gen Douglas staff "while He testified that he squeaked through high school and spent a few months at Alfred University He was turned down for military service because of a bad leg and a ruptured eardrum When he enrobed in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York according to his testimony he decided to create a new identification for himself an Identification patterned in many ways on Michael's life lie changed his name and pid he was a second lieutenant during Warid War and had degrees than the University of California and the University of British Columbia He chimed he had been port owner of a Havana hold The more he lied the more he had to lie After two unsuccessful marriages he fell in love with Evelyn Emerson and decided to lie no more "I want to go into this marriage like my previous he testified "having someone marry me knowing nothing about But somehow he kept right on lying There was the time he frit seif-conscious about his lack of military service because Evelyn's first husband had been in the French Army So Run Gregory wrote the "Major Riley" letter for him Of course he expected Ron to mail It There was the business about the Ful-brlght scholarship Ilii friends started that false rumor and he deny it There was the foolishness about Ms owning a boat About the only thing he lie about RockweB said were the Indian artifacts Early in I960 he heard about that collection from a man named Terry Devlin in Vancouver He gave Devlin $300 to act as picker or middleman In acquisition of the collect ion Well he told Evriyn about it and then Mrs Winkler literally forced the $10000 check on him (by Schroeter) Why did you finally agree to accept the loan? I have never been able to refuse women Rockwell testified that on Aug 3 he fully intended to go to British Columbia but that very day Devlin appeared in Seattle and demanded $1500 That made Rockwell uneasy for seen only slides of the collection and he didn't even know tiie identity of the seller HO told Devlin he'd have to he could ny out money Devlin said okay be right back with someone who had the information But Devlin didn't come back "And there I was with the $10000" Rockwell continued sadly was expected to make money out of He decided to pick up some antiques In San Francisco which he could sell tor a quick profit And then he thought of Irene Gregory who had been begging him to take her to Portugal He had wanted to fell her husband about her advances but he Just eoridn't Maybe if Ron discovered his wife in San Fraud sco find out what kind of a gbf dte was Rockwell denied he wns running away from anyone except Evriyn maybe "because I had fills tiger by the tall I had a lot of explaining to do to Yes he used an alias to buy the car in Reno I'm a guy who flies and buys under assumed names all the He certainly was not trying to hide behind a straightened nose or dyed hair been trying to get a straight nose since 1910 and he'd been dying his hair ever since the first fleck of gray appeared ki The defendant was perwasive and he might have been believed hnd not Daniel Terrance Devlin an dealer from Vancouver taken the stand as an irate rebuttal witness Devlin shouted that he had never discussed a collection of Indian artifacts with Rockwell had never received $300 to act as a picker had never demanded $1500 from Rockwell on Aug 3 He could prove that he was in Vancouver that day not in Seattle In summation on 38th birthday Schroeter pleaded deserves our compassion not our vindictiveness and our Savage reared behavior is in the classic pattern of a confidence man" Judge James found Rockwell guilty at grand larceny a conviction which carries a maximum sentence of 13 years Imprisonment Immediately thereafter District Attorney Cams filed a first-degree perjury charge against Rockwell because of his testimony concerning Devlin is a vindictive Schroeter declared is the first time I've ever heard of a perjury charge in a criminal case If person Is convicted assumed he lied You use perjury except as an instrument of At any rate Rockwell will be around quite while in case he is moved to tell somebody what happened to Manzanita Rockwell and Dolores Mearna TVa' SiWsy Loot Fsgs 7.