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i ti ff 2-A Sunday, Nov. 28. 71 DETROIT l-'REE Wliy Did Hundreds Ignore Doomed Girl? "There's' a belief in our society thai-everybody should mind his own business' community. The motorists who had seen the girl along the expressway reported the incident to police. And over the next seven days, detectives received more than 300 phone calls from people offering possible leads.

Investigators talked to more than 200 people in Bull's Head and They picked up known sex offenders and questioned them. But there were no arrests. Rewards totaling more than $4,000 have been offered for hv formation leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer. On Nov. 21, only two days after Carmen's body was found, there was a new development.

A penciled note, was found scribbled on a men's room door on the sixth floor of a downtown building. It said: "I killed a 10-year-old girl. Who wil be next." neighborhood youngsters In the fenced-in front yard. Then, late in the afternoon of Nov. 16, Carmen's Guillonina Colon, who lived elsewhere in Rochester, visited the home, and sent Carmen to a drug store two blocks away to have a prescription filled.

IT WAS 4 p.m. and it was the last time her family would ever see her alive. At 4:30 p.m. Thursday, two boys were pedaling bicycles In the town of Riga, 15 miles from Rochester when they spotted what they at first thought was a broken doll in a ditch along the road. The "broken doll" turned out to be Carmen, and she was dead.

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An tT credit plan makes it even easier. Continued from Page 1A at the State University at Buffalo. Harris, who has investigated so-called "crowd apathy," said, "There's a real question of whether, in fact, people even notice there's an emergency. They may see something going on, but not at a conscious level. "The drivers who passed the he said, may have been a I concentrating on their driving and half concentrating on something else, like a business problem." EVEN PEOPLE who recognize what appears to be a desperate situation may not know how to cope with it, he said.

again, there's the question: 'Should I help?" There's a belief in our society that; everybody should mind his own business. It's a good Idea in a way, but sometimes it can have bad consequ- ences." Michael Cerretto, chief sher-. Iff's; detective of Monroe County who heads the investigation into the slaying, appears understanding. "Some may have thought it was a family quarrel," he said. "What would you have done?" Meantime, the search for the, murderer-and rapist goes on.

Cerretto said 20 detectives are on the a fulltimc. concentrating on Rochester's Bull's Head section where Carmen lived a mixed neighborhood of homes occupied by blacks, whites and Puerto Ricans, Carmen was born in Rochester, but was taken to Puerto Rico while a baby. Her parents brought her back to Rochester five years ago, then her mother and father separated and Carmen made her home tyith her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Colon.

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