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LVcatur. Illinois. Sunda April 26. V)'61 Tage IT 16 Iaitioii' Wirginia 's lite seems lost kfter police find skeletons i'M nil i in COLONIAL MALL NORTHLAND Open Mon. thru Sat.

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TO 8 P.M. By PAT LEISNER WEEKI WACHEE, Fla. (AP) Virginia Mansfield sits in the small kitchen of her cramped trailer home and looks back on a year in which her life dissolved her husband, three sons and a son-in-law all went to jail, police dug up four skeletons in her and sightseers haunt her. zl "It seems like my whole world went to pieces all at once," said Mrs. Mansfield, a 49-year-old mother of seven.

"Easter a year ago we were all here for dinner. This Easter I well, it was a hollow Easter. And it's not over yet." Mrs. Mansfield admits the troubles seem overwhelming, but only seldom does her iron-willed, matriarchal determination slip. "It got so nobody wanted to go outside, not even to hang up laundry, because of the police, the reporters and the sightseers," Mrs.

Mansfield said. "After a while it got to a point if While backhoes dug in a 31-day search for bodies, Mrs. Mansfield sat inside her enlarged mobile home with daughter Cheryl, 19; granddaughter Shurrie, 15 months; son Terry, 21; Robbie, before he was jailed, and sometimes Tim, 23. So far only two skeletons have been identified, one as a 15-year-old girl strangled five years ago, the other a 21-year-old woman apparently shot to death. The other two are believed to be women in their 20s.

Mrs. Mansfield points to a thin stand of trees out back, once a thicket; her husband's refrigeration repair shop, now a pile of wood and broken concrete; an above-ground swimming pool, now in pieces. "This is what they did searching, looking, digging," she said bitterly. "And then they left." Billy had brushes with the law before, locally, where false imprisonment and battery charges are pend 11 3 ft wwvuu 26,27,28 Only iv Virginia Mansfield WE WILL ing in a case involving a woman, and i DOUBLE the VALUE on in Michigan, where he was charged four years ago with sexually attacking two Grand Rapids teen-agers. "I didn't know they (the skeletons) were there.

They've told me over and over my son put them there. I've heard it so much I'm at a point where I'm wondering, 'Is it Like Jekyll and Hyde "Billy is like a Jekyll and Hyde," Mrs. Mansfield said, her blue eyes welling with tears. "He's an alcoholic. He's real nice when he's sober.

When he's drunk he's nasty but not with me your MANUFACTURER'S COUPON This Double Manufacturer Coupon Redemption off ers runs thru 1 April 28, 1381 To Save You More At Your TOLLY'S Store the cranes kept going it was OK. When it stopped it meant they found something. When it stopped my stomach came up in my throat The digging, which police said they started after receiving a tip, stopped in mid-April, but the stream of curious did not. Cars drive by for look "A busload (of sightseers) came by just this week a busload," she said. "Easter morning there were cars driving by for a look." Her husband, William, 56, is serving 30 years in a Florida prison for sex crimes against young girls.

Two sons, William "Billy" 25, and Gary, 23, are in a California prison charged with killing a woman. Another son, Robbie, at 18 her youngest, and her son-in-law, Terry Kott, are in a nearby jail accused of burglary. No charges have been brought in the deaths of the four women whose skeletons were dug from shallow, sandy graves behind the Mansfield home on a wooded, five-acre sight strewn with junk, but Mrs. Mansfield knows those charges are coming next. "Billy Mansfield is my prime No.

1 suspect," says Hernando County Sheriff's Lt. John Whitman, who is heading the investigation. "I know they think Billy is to blame for those bodies," she said. "The warrant that let them start digging up my place on March 18 said he is a suspect As for the charge against her husband, Mrs. Mansfield said, "There's got to be some truth to it, but not to all of it." Robbie was picked up in early April on the burglary charge, but Mrs.

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