European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Terrorists announce slaying Schleyer found dead in Auto Mulhouse France up the Bod of kidnapped West German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer was found by police wednesday in the trunk of a car found the body in the trunk of a West German car Only hours after the re army faction announced the 62 year old industrialist s execution. They said there army had put an end to the Misera ble and corrupt life of the head of the German employers association. French police working on a tip fro Germany found the Green Audi 100 registered in bad Homburg fitting the description of the red army communique. But they summoned experts to open the trunking fear it might be Bobby trapped. Police did not immediately disclose How Schleyer was killed by his captors who kid naked him in Cologne sept. 5 in a Summa Chine gun attack in which four of Schleyer s bodyguards were Paris police sources said that Schleyer appeared to have died from strangulation or had his Throat Cut. There appeared to be no Bullet wounds on his body the said. The a reported Schleyer s Throat had been Cut the Interior ministry in Paris confirmed continued on Page 28, col. 2 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 36, no. 185 i5c �0" Ond Sondov thursday october 20, 1977 if 21855 a unbiased7 probe sought in deaths of three terrorists Hijack victim Christine Santiago is comforted by her son Leo and husband Antonio As she tells of her ordeal. Is Milia by Joseph b. Flemin Bonn up defense lawyers demanded wednesday an International investigation into the deaths of three imprisoned terrorists but German authorities repeated that they killed themselves and were not death three of the founding members of the red army faction the infamous Baader Meinhoff gang have caused almost As much trouble As they did in lives de voted to battling the West German social order with bombs and Baader his girl Friend Gudrun Ensslin once mixed up in an alleged plotto assassinate Hubert Humphrey and Jan Carl raspe were found dead in their cells in Stuttgart s top Security Stam Muheim prison tuesday. Baader and rasp died of Bullet wounds. Ensslin was hanging on an electric Cable attached to the window of her cell. Traugott Bender Justice minister of Testate of Baden Wurttemberge told the state parliament that a preliminary investigation disclosed they committed suicide on learning of failure of a hijackers Planeto Exchange them for 86 hostages held on a West German Airliner. Legal authorities said an autopsy report will be made in about eight Days but said preliminary report showed they killed the defense lawyers for Baader 34 year old sociologist and Ensslin 37-year-old Clergyman s daughter suggested they were murdered and told a Bonn press con Ference an International commission should be formed to probe the deaths. The claimed German investigations now under Way would be Heldmann Baader ? lawyer said he was killed by a shot in the continued on Page 28, col. 2 american Mother s Holiday flight turned into horror filled Nightmare writer Frankfurt is what began for Christine Santiago As a simple flight from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt in route to visiting her relatives in Austria ended in a horror filled Odyssey that took her far from her intended destination and resulted in the death of four people. Santiago and her 5-year-old son Leo were the Only americans aboard a Lufthansa Boeing 737 jetliner that was hijacked an hour after its departure from Mallorca last times the 44-year-old Mother of six thought she would never live to Tell of the events that can compare Only with the most frightening of nightmares. But Here late wednesday afternoon Christine Santiago sat with her son Leo and husband Antonio at the american consulate and held a 40-minute press con Ference recalling the week Long ordeal that ended late monday when a daring raid freed All 86 hostages from the grasp of four leftist terrorists. Three of the hijackers continued on Page 28, col. I Rock n Roll column starts in stripes random notes a weekly Rock n Roll column from rolling Stone Magazine begins on Page 19 of today s stars and stripes. With on the spot coverage from the capitals of the music world random notes provides you with the inside track on the big names of the record business. Look for it Ever week in your stars and stripes. Yanks wrap up world series see Page 21
