European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday. June 25, 1977 new York from last july 29 until the beginning of this month there were 1,333 murders in new York. Of these 73 percent of the victims hers wiled by people they knew. The remaining murders the one mainly committed in assaults and robberies Are the crimes that have this City disabled and withering. There is however a set of murders that have had a special effect on new York. Five Young people have been wiled at night by person who Calls himself son of Sam and who leaps out of the stillness to fire a .44handgun at close Range. He has wounded four others leaving one paralysed for has missed two people. Four of the five dead were Young women with Long brow hair. The fifth victim was a Young Man who was killed with his girl Friend As they sat in Acar on a dark Street not in record or memory have the people of new York dwell de on a crime As they have on this set of murders. There is in the mind of new Yor this week a Row of headstones covered with fog and somewhere just beyond where Eyer Light can reach is a Man crouched with a special task Force set up to catch the killer occupies two rooms usually used for juvenile cases on the second floor of the 109th precinct station in Flushing i Queens. There Are 12 phone lines in the offices on monday of this week the phones rang so constantly that a dozen detectives were unable to step away from a phone forthe entire Day and through most of the eve Ning. On tuesday it still was heavy. Yester Day morning six detectives still were needed to listen to people who called out offer or who had a need to touch this Case to be included in what they Felt was the excite ment of solving murders that have no real Down the police inspector in charge of finding the .44 killer was found Athis yesterday morning answering a phone Call from a retired policeman. Theman told Dowd that he thought the killer worked in a funeral parlor. How do you figure that Dowd asked. The retired police Man said that in his last letter the killer mentioned Handiwork and coffins. In his letter the killer also spoke of blood and gut ters. There Are gutters in an embalming table where the blood runs Down the caller said. Outside Dowd s office were psychics up from Florida Micki Dahne and Page Bryant who were waiting to Tell urn How they could use their Powers to locate son of Sam. On another phone line in Dowd s Pri vate office was a Man who said he had gone through his old High school yearbook an found a classmate who had written Over his picture the title the Duke of a this was a name the killer called himself in the letter the Man was certain that his old classmate was the killer. "1 never saw this Many Calls in any Homi ride i be Ever worked Dowd was saying. No Call his office receives is ignored. Earlyon tuesday somebody mentioned to Dowd that one of the names in the letter the wicked King Wicker could have come from a movie King Wicker which was made in Scotland and has not shown Here. By the end of the Day Dowd had obtained script of the movie from the agent of author Peter just keep trying to put Little things to Gether and eliminate others Dowd everything is helpful. You hate to think there is one thing that you should bedding that you re not doing. The Only thing that bothers me is the Story in the paper where the handwriting experts say the killer is not too Bright now that s going to get him mad. It s obvious the Guy is highly Intelli gent and has commendable writing has us baffled. 1 wish he d l e More explicit in his next letter. If he wants to play game at least give us a Chance. But whatever you say Don t Tell me the Guy in the Story he mentioned ran in the tues Day Dally news. The handwriting experts said that the killer had the style of a professional Letterer or cartoonist in order to cover up for his Lack of intelligence and it antagonized the killer then the Story did no Good. However it is one of the human problems that goes with the business of printing newspapers. If people putting out papers begin to worry about the effect of each thing they run then soon the worst danger of All the most effective of All censorship self censorship can result. My own opinion is that the killer has to be a Bright Man at those times when this Sam this spirit inside himself in t driving him out into the night to kill Lovely innocent people. The first paragraph of the letter be wrote to me Speaks for itself cracks in the sidewalks of . And from the ants that dwell in these cracks an feed on the dried blood of the dead that has settled into these people anywhere can write with into flow. The paragraph undoubtedly took him Long time to write. Without the pressure of a deadline to move is hand along be could have taken a week to get his letter to me in order. Reading his first paragraph again know he could have been throwing away first paragraphs for three or four Day before he got the one he wanted the one that would could be the reason any second letter from son of Sam could take much Tim before it arrives. As i wait while the killer composes i think of or. Grand in Alber Camus the grand was writing a novel that he wanted to make so Good that the publisher after Reading it would stand up and say to his staff gentlemen hats off grand Laboured Over his Book evenings whole weeks spent on one word jus think sometimes on a Mere conjunction i picture the killer doing the same thing sitting somewhere and trying to choose be tween and and then for part of a sen tence of his next letter. And while everybody Waits the phones ring and the mail piles up. Never in this City has a killer had so Many people on the Lookout for his writing style his nicknames. And perhaps never have so Many people been nominated for the role of murderer. The police and the newspapers receive let ters saying this probably is a woman s silly intuition but perhaps it bears checking out. My husband has had severe psychiatric problems and has left me. 1 have Long brow hair and so has his Mother. I believe he is Ca Pable of killing people. His name chief of detectives in new York John Keenan received a detailed letter yesterday from a metaphorical analyst in Poughkeepsie. It said the son of Sam has revealed his first name John. Let me show you Why using the theory of metaphor and one of it principles that of underneath this was a set of complicated equations All explained by such terms As you see. On the subliminal then As the Day ended and the 109th precinct sat in shadows men began to walk into the station in Street clothes and go up stairs to the old juvenile Aid rooms an Check in for the Start of a night of walking the streets and looking for a confrontation with a killer who carries a .44. There is Only one Rule that applies to this part of the investigation. Do not miss. 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Beard37 scamper 31 Mideast language 41 prefix not42wlnglike parts43 Skink 44 neat Buddhist church47 Man s name 48 unit of Force answer to yesterday s Puzzle 5 Wood sorrel dear Ann my problem b my Girlfriend. I am if and she is 11 when we first began to Dat thought the was terrific and i Suu do except for one thing she swears worse that any Guy in the locker room when 1 ask her not to swear she gets up on her women s lib Soapbox and says i m Square. My friends Tell me a girl with a foul Mouth is just about the of us Guys swear when there Are girls around so it s Notas if she is getting even. Her mom and dad Are Lovely people. They never talk that Way so it can t be her does she do it and now can i 6-25 dear lobes Girts woo use Otter language do it for the Shock value. It s an attention get tint her for a while and Tell her Why. If that does t produce result write her off. She would be a continuing source of embarrassment dear Ann i disagree wit your response to the College Sophomore who was in her eight month of psychoanalysis. You said the goal of therapy is to get the patient to the Point where he can function without then suggested three years As a termination Point this might be True for someone who is mentally unstable but Many people including myself Are in therapy to improve the Quality of our lives. This Means More than solving specific problem. It Means developing the ability to face anxiety rather than Retreat behind defences out of fear. Day to Day problems Are secondary to the More Basic Issue of living life tothe full and having open and honest relationships with am a woman who to All out Ward appearances has a Succes Ful career and a rewarding family life. Yet after five years of therapy i still and myself re treating from close relationship for fear i will become a non can certainly function with out therapy yet therapy is gradually permitting me to Trust and care and to overcome my fear of being overwhelmed by love. I suggest you rethink you answer Ann. Therapy can do a lot More than you give it creditor. Becoming me dear becoming it you can afford the hoary of six or seven or 10 years of therapy to improve toe Quality of Yoor life you Are More fortunate than Moat people. The vast majority of patients who Are feeling go because they Are de pressed insecure handbag the conflicts la their we poorly and need to ventilate frustrations an anxieties. I be seen human wrecks re stored and broken lives rebuilt through therapy. Bat i have als Seea patients spend too Many Yean with a doctor who Shook have toned them Over to some
