European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes saturday August 24, 1991 Dahmer s attorney hints he May use Insan by the Washington Post Milwaukee a the attorney for accused serial murderer Jeffrey l. Dahmer hinted thursday that he May present an insanity defense for the former Choco late factory worker suspected of killing and dismembering As Many As 17 Young men and boys. Attorney Gerald p. Boyle said Dahm or 31, is undergoing psychiatric and psychological testing before his scheduled arraignment and plea sept. 10, prosecutors formally charged Dahmer on thursday morning with three More dismemberment murders bringing to is the number of such counts against him. A i doubt very much that there will be any additional charges Quot said Milwaukee District attorney e. Michael Mccann. Boyle told reporters that Dahmer is a clearly competent Quot to stand trial in that he understands what is happening in the courtroom and can assist in his defense. A but that does not mean that at the time of the commission of his alleged offences that he Wasny to suffering from a mental disease or defect Quot Boyle said. A a that a what a being investigated  Boyle met with reporters after a 10-minute court session in which Dahmer waived his right to a preliminary hearing where prosecutors would have outlined evidence against him. Boyle said he believed that the hearing would have been a a waste of  thursdays charges Are based largely on Dahmer a statements to police soon after he was taken into custody Many of them made before Boyle formally joined the Case As his attorney. Boyle indicated thursday that he expects a Challenge to admissibility of these confessions in court. Dahmer was asked by Milwaukee court commissioner Audrey y. Brooks whether he understood the charges and the penalties they Cany fifteen terms of life imprisonment plus 10 additional years in prison for each murder because of Dahmer a alleged a habitual  a yes 1 do your Honor a he replied. Jeffrey Dahmer Center sits with attorney Gerald p. Boyle during preliminary hearing. Brooks ordered that Dahmer remain in jail in lieu of a $5 million Bond and his defense team did not object. Watching silently in the packed courtroom were about 50 family members of Dahmer a alleged victims some of them wearing pictures of their relatives on their shirts or suits. Security was extremely tight and sheriffs officers exam ined each person entering the courtroom with hand held Metal detectors. Dahmer allegedly has told police that he killed 17 males including two 14-year-old boys. He was detained after police encountered a handcuffed Man who said he had just fled Dahmer a apartment where police discovered parts of 11 bodies july 22.standoff at prison continues Talladega Ala. A prison officials reported no break thursday in a standoff with cuban inmates holding 10 hostages under a threat of bloodshed to avoid being deported to their Homeland. Roger Scott Warden of the Talladega Federal correctional institution divulged Little of substance on negotiations with the inmates. The inmates overpowered guards wednesday morning and took Over a High Security unit of the prison. The cuban inmates apparently have knife like weapons Scott said. Prison officials reported their first face to face Contact thursday with the cuban inmates. The de to incas requested prescription medication for two cubans and in turn let two hostages receive Medicine Scott said. Authorities were Able to see the two hostages through a Grille when they delivered the Medicine. Both a appeared to be in Good shape a Scott said. Along with the 10 prison workers being held hostage 18 american prisoners also Are in the besieged unit. Prison spokesman de Crosley said negotiations had taken place in person and by phone. He said demands included open Telephone lines. Prison officials gave conflicting statements on whether food was provided to the unit. Gary Leshaw an Atlanta Legal Aid society lawyer who spoke to a Detainee by Fronc late�?1wednesday, said his impression was that they had food. He also said the cubans consider the 18 american inmates to be hostages As Well As the 10 prison workers. Florida couple taped having sex insist they re just victims of love Tampa Fla. Apr a couple videotaped having sex in their condominium defiantly denied on thursday that they made a habit of Public nudity and Intercourse. Instead they insisted they Are simply victims of love. A we were in the Middle of a wonderful relationship that was just getting started a now this thing has turned into a three ring circus a Alfred Stephens accompanied by Janet paddock said in an interview thursday. A a we re getting tired of the attempts to drag us through the mud a he said. A this could happen to anyone. How would you like it if it happened to you a it began last month when a neighbor stood outside a ground floor window of the condominium and used a zoom Lens to capture the couple having sex in their bathroom. After police saw the tape they arrested the pair on felony charges of lewd Stephens paddock and lascivious conduct in front of a child since some youngsters could see into the bathroom from a nearby Pool area. But prosecutors dropped the felonies last week deciding instead to file Misdemeanour disorderly conduct charges for three separate incidents that had nothing to do with the taping. They now Are accused of swimming in the condominiums Pool with paddock partially nude having sex in the Condo hot tub and entering a ladies restroom together at a bar and Locking the door with the intent of having sex. A a we re innocent none of its True a said Stephens. A what Are we guilty of we re guilty of swimming in the swimming Pool. We re guilty of making love in our own Home and we re guilty of being in a Jacuzzi. A if you want to hang us out to dry for that a More Power to you a he said. Lead prosecutor Hank Lavandera said last week the charges suited the crimes because they generally defined a behaving like a Jerk in  in the weeks since their arrest Stephens 36, was thrown out of the Condo and lost his Job As a car Salesman. Paddock 32, was asked to leave her Job As a barmaid. They Are now living together at an unspecified address and have started making the rounds on television talk and tabloid shows to defend themselves against the charges. Drifter s murder trial set for Mississippi Gulfport miss. A Donald Leroy Evans will be tried Here in the slaying of a homeless girl a the Only death he a been charged with since claiming he killed More than 60 people authorities said. Prosecutors settled on the venue wednesday after choosing Between Mississippi and Louisiana because the alleged crime ranged Over both states. Evans 34, a drifter from Galveston Texas was charged aug. 16 in Harrison county court with capital murder in the aug. 1 killing of Beatrice Louise Routh 10. Arraignment was set for sept. 3. Earlier this week Louisiana authorities charged him with murder in the Case. Evans told authorities after his arrest aug. 5 that he took the girl from a Beach Here raped and strangled her in Louisiana and returned to Mississippi to dump her body. A we think it probably is in the Best interest of the Case to allow Evans to be tried Here in Gulfport Quot Walter Reed District attorney for St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana said wednesday. Evans claims he killed More than 60 women and men around the United states and Canada in 10 years of bloody wander Ings be tween 077-an d-19&7.--- if he a telling the truth Evans would be the most prolific known serial killer in . History. In the meantime Evans pleaded guilty monday in . District court in Biloxi to Federal charges of kidnapping Routh. Sentencing was set for oct. 24. A kidnapping conviction could bring life in prison and a $250,000 Fine. Capital murder which in Mississippi includes a killing that involves More than one crime is punishable by lethal injection. In the Federal Case against him Evans has asked for the use of a Telephone in his cell four hours a Day and the right to hold a news conference and other direct communication with news Media Federal prisoners customarily Are allowed two Telephone Calls a week. Evans said he needed More Telephone Access for Legal preparation and to Aid investigators tracking his other purported killings. He is being held in Harrison county jail