European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday july 31,1991dahmer Trail leads to More Bones Bath Ohio apr investigators found several pieces of Bone tuesday near the boyhood Home of l is. Dahmer As they searched for remains of a Hitchhiker believed to be the first of his 17 or More mutilation slaying victims. Authorities hoped a map drawn by Dahmer would help them find Bones by personal effects of Steven Mark Hicks around property once owned by Dahmer a parents in this suburb of Akron one Bone or piece of Bone was found tuesday in a drainage ditch where authorities believe Hicks body was first placed before being moved later said sheriff David Troutman. Troutman said Early tuesday afternoon that other Bones which appear to be from the vertebrae rib area were found elsewhere on the property where Dahmer told them to look. Troutman said that authorities did not know yet if the Bones Are human but that Dahmer Quot has been very truthful in what he has related to us and Milwaukee police say Dahmer in whose Milwaukee apartment 11 mutilated bodies were found july 22, has confessed to 15 slayings and authorities believe he is responsible for at least 17 killings. The 14th name of a victim was released tuesday David c. Thomas 23, of Milwaukee who was reported missing sept. 24,1990. In another development a sister of one victim said that she received an Anonymous Call from someone claiming to have killed her brother and that police have now told her that Call came from Dahmer. In the Ohio Case Dahmer told authorities that Hicks was hitchhiking to a Rock concert in 1978 when he accepted a ride to his House. There Dahmer strangled and fired 6 officers report says by the los Angeles times los Angeles a at least six los Angeles police officers who stood by and did nothing to Stop the videotaped beating in March of a Black Motorist Are being relieved of duty and Are in the process of turning in their guns badges and department serial numbers the los Angeles times Learned monday. Moreover four other officers Are being suspended for up to 22 Days and another has been Given a five Day suspension for allegedly conducting personal business on a police computer terminal shortly before the King beating. Police officials refused to release the names of those officers affected by the disciplinary actions until tuesday when All of the 19 los Angeles officers who were bystanders during the beating of Rodney g. King would be notified. But other department sources said that those relieved of duty include Tim Blake 28, a three year Veteran Paul r. Geb Hardt 48, a 16-year Veteran Joseph f. Napolitano 46, a six year Veteran Danny Shry 36, a three year Veteran Robert j. Simpach 46, an 18-year Veteran and Louis m. Turriaga 26, a member of the department since 1988. The sources added that four probationary officers hired in 1990 Are being suspended without pay and identified them As Rolando Solano suspended for 22 Days Christopher Hajduk 15 Days Ingrid Larson 10 Days and David a. Love five Days. Another officer Corina Smith who was not at the scene was suspended for five Days sources said. Although Smith was not present during the King beating officials said she sent a series of messages to a patrol car occupied by officers Laurence m. Powell and Timothy wind and that the officers sent her a racially insensitive message. The Fate of another nine bystander officers was unknown. And police officials said the department is Stilt investigating the actions of a police helicopter Pilot and his observer who spotlighted the scene during the beating. Hicks with a Barbell and dismembered him Troutman said sunday. Dahmer said he buried and dug up Hicks remains several times ultimately scraping the flesh off smashing the Bones to bits with Jyh Hammer and scattering them in a Ravine Between his parents land and two other properties. 1. He Drew authorities a map of the heavily wooded 1.7-acre property. The search Quot could take anywhere from one Day which i doubt to five Days a said Bath police capt. John Gardner. A it could take that Long because the evidence we Are looking for is 13 years he said investigators would use rakes shovels and Metal detectors to look for Bone fragments jewelry and identification. Thirty investigators were at the site but Only 15 were involved in the search. A news conference was scheduled for late tuesday. On monday Owen Lovejoy an anthropologist at Kent state University examined a thigh Bone found at the Bath House and said it probably Wasny to human said Joseph Orlando a Summit county coroners spokesman. Milwaukee police said monday that Dahmer had confessed to at least 15 slayings i whose remains were at the apartment one slain in Bath township two killed at his grandmothers House in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis and a Man who was slain at an unspecified location after going to a Gay Pride Parade in Chicago. None of the bodies besides those in his apartment has been found. The first killings at the grandmothers House was in january 1985 or 1986, the second two months later said Robert due Deputy police chief in West Allis. He said Dahmer was unclear on the dates. If Dahmer disposed of their bodies in a Way he described to police Quot we re not going to be Able to recover anything a the Milwaukee Sentinel quoted West Allis police chief John Butorac As saying in tuesdays editions. A we have a Good idea where they went a Butorac said. Quot but we done to know if Well Ever find one of the victims disclosed monday was identified As Edward a Smith 28, of Milwaukee police said. In a Sentinel interview Smiths sister Caroline Smith 37, said someone called the family in March to confess the killing. Now she said police have told her that Dahmer told them he made that Call. A the just said a done to even bother looking for your brother i said a Why not a he said a because he a i said a How do you know that a and he said a because i killed him a a Smith said. Court records say Dahmer confessed that he lured men to his apartment to take nude photos drugged them and strangled them. He took pictures of the victims in various stages of mutilation and boiled some of their skulls. I he had sex with some victims including one. After death and told police he kept one victims heart in a Freezer to eat later court records say. Gay and minority group leaders meanwhile stepped up Calls monday for an investigation of the Milwaukee police department. All 15 known victims were male 10 were Black two hispanic one laotian and two White Dahmer is White. A a. A a a 5 / a dead Murre lies beyond ropes stretched to hinder the now of Oil onto Shi Shi Beach on the Western coast of the olympic Peninsula 30 Miles of Washington beaches fouled by Oil from sunken vessel Neah Bay Wash. Up Oil from a sunken japanese fishing vessel fouled More the 30 Miles of coastline As wildlife rescuers scrambled to retrieve surviving Birds and sea otters. The Canadian coast guard said a three member submarine would be sent in by wednesday to study whether the flow from the boat could be plugged. Tides and winds pushed the Oil ashore along the vulnerable stretch of Beach mostly on the Makkah Indian reservation but also on Shi Shi Beach a popular camping area for hikers in the olympic National Forest state department of ecology officials said. A 50-mile-Long Slick was visible in the water and globs of Oil were collecting on the once Pristine beaches a there were no reports of Oil South of Cape Alava the Northern tip of a longer 40-mile coastline that is part of the olympic National Park. But damage from Oil ashore elsewhere was extensive. A i done to feel Good about picking up Birds that Are covered with Oil Birds that Are half dead a said Alan Haines a Makkah tribal member taking part in the Rescue Effort. A especially when you pick up dead ones. Its something that be also monday an Oil coating was found on two sea otters the first such animals known to have become trapped in the gooey muck said Doug Zimmer a state wildlife department spokesman. Zimmer said Oil had been blamed for the deaths of 140 Birds and another 320 Birds fouled by the muck had been rescued. Efforts continued to move a Herd of about 20 otters a including pups a away from the Oil. Marine biologists said most vulnerable were Young sea otters and newly hatched Birds entering the water for the first time. The 365-foot japanese ship Tenyo Maru was rammed july 22 by the 610-foot chinese Grain vessel Tou Hai near the Entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca which separates Canadas Vancouver Island from Washington state. The . Coast guard reported the flow of Oil leaking from the sunken japanese fish processor had slowed. The Canadian coast guard set up a base at Ucluelet British Columbia to protect Western Vancouver Island beaches from the spreading Oil. Several Oil Slicks were shifting offshore including some about 4 Miles Long. One Slick was estimated to contain 30,000 Gallons of Oil
