European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 20, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7 officers escort escaped killer Frank Vandever second from left from the Paramus ., police station saturday. Elusive killer who fled prison captured at new Jersey mall Paramus  Apr a convicted killer who escaped from a Connecticut prison and later eluded Fri agents who found him in a Motel was captured saturday authorities said. Frank Vandever last seen thursday in Spring Valley ., was arrested As he walked to a stolen car in the parking lot of a Paramus shopping mall said Mike Thomas a new York state police investigator. Vandever a known transvestite had returned saturday morning to the same Spring Valley Motel from which he had fled thursday night Thomas said. Vandever was dressed As a Man saturday a witness said. Federal state and local Law enforcement officers had blanketed the suburbs North of new York City searching for the 37-year-old Escapee a former stockbroker from Guilford Conn. He had been serving a 40-year sentence for the 1988 murder of a client who discovered the stockbroker was tapping into his investment funds. Vandever and another inmate Ronald Rutan escaped from a Connecticut state prison dec. 31. A woman who saw a report about the pair on a nationally syndicated television show thursday night tipped off the Fri that they were at the Motel in Spring Valley 28 Miles North of new York City. But Vandever eluded capture by hopping a Fence near the new York thruway and running into Woods authorities said. Fri agents captured Rutan 34, who was serving a 20-year sentence for burglary. Despite the Large manhunt Vandever May have robbed a Bank Friday in Nyack  A Man wearing heavy makeup used a fake bomb to steal $10,000 from a Frederick my. Up a a painting depicting a nude president Bush and Dolly Parton standing Side by Side went on display saturday at an Art Center and a state lawmaker threatened to Cut off the centers state funding because of the exhibit. The head of the Frederick Art Center fended off criticism directed at the painting which is included in an exhibit featuring artwork dealing with social problems. In the painting titled a peace treaty and a new world order by austrian born artist Josef Schutzen Hofer both Bush and Parton Are nude. Bush is shown holding one hand Over his Chest and the other Over his genitals. Also portrayed in the painting Are conservative sen. Jesse Helms r-., dressed in roman Battle gear and retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf who is standing on the neck of iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Schwarzkopf wearing Only a breastplate holds a drive in Teller authorities said. About 2vi hours before his arrest saturday afternoon Vandever was spotted in a 7-Elevcn convenience store in Bergenfield  said John Kindergan the store manager. Police came into the store a half hour later with a photograph of Vandever which both Cashiers recognized he said. Kindergan said Vandever was dressed As a Man. He looked a a Little scrounge and was wearing a red flannel Lumberjack coat a scruffy Beard and his hair looked Unco bed a he said. A the most outstanding feature about him my Cashiers said was his Hazel Green  in 1988, Vandever shot and killed client Ronald Hiiri who discovered that the stockbroker had been dipping into his investment account. Vandever who had no prior criminal record admitted planting transvestite literature and a sexual Aid in Hiiri s apartment to make it appear his death was a sex crime. Investigators also discovered that on the Day Hiiri was shot to death Vandever used the victims credit card to buy himself a $164 outfit at a boutique that caters to transvestites. Charles Peters the . Attorney who prosecuted Vandever on Federal fraud charges after he was in prison for murder estimated he took As much As $200,000 from 20 different accounts. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to an additional 10 years. Vandever and Rutan escaped from prison by sawing through the bars of a Supply room Ana cutting through an electronic perimeter tence which had a faulty alarm system. They hid in an office until the following Day then overpowered a cleaning couple and stole their car. Shield bearing a portrait of Adolf Hitler. A photograph of the painting was published in a local newspaper last week stirring controversy and prompting Calls to radio talk shows. Melinda Wimer executive director of the arts Center defended the display. The Center segregated the painting of Bush from the rest of the exhibit which contains works dealing in such themes As racism homosexuality and War. State Delegate James a. Mcclellan a democratic lawmaker from Washington county said he would hold up a $500,000 funding Bill for the Center. A i think with this Type of Art being exhibited it might have a drastic effect on the Bill a Mcclellan said. A people Are going to be As upset As hell. A a it a a great place a Mcclellan said of the Center a but i just done to think that a the kind of Art i can  .actor Pat Mccormick injured in car Accident from wire reports los Angeles a Pat Mccormick the comedian who appeared in the Smoky and the Bandit movies was injured saturday when his car went off a freeway. Mccormick 57, was in serious but stable condition at holy Cross medical Center with head injuries and multiple rib fractures said or. Denise Dru director of the Hospital s trauma unit. Mccormick was alone in his car when it went off the Hollywood freeway and landed near a Home about 9 30 a.m., said Marcy Blackmore a California Highway patrol officer. Officers had to rip the Auto apart to free Mccormick she said. Mccormick a performer and writer was a television regular on the Don Rockies show in 1968-69 on Abc and the new Bill Cosby show on lbs from 1972-73. He appeared in Smoky and the Bandit in 1977 and Smoky and the Bandit Iii in 1983.boys find live grenade Wilmington . A two boys digging a Tunnel for an underground fort unearthed a live grenade. A we thought it was a Rock a Andrew Remington 9, said As police cleared his family a Home and took the grenade away to detonate it. After finding the grenade Andrew passed it on to his sister Emily 11. She took it inside washed it and gave the Small wet grenade to her Mother. A i just about croaked a Jan Remington said. She said the grenade looked like a toy but was very heavy. Detective . Goodrum said it could have been activated by a bump. Robert Hutchins 7, said he and Andrew had been digging behind the Remington Home for about three Days. The boys dug a Hole 3 feet deep before Robert hit the grenade with his shovel. The weapon was a fragmentation grenade said sgt. . Gandy one of the officers who destroyed it. A it looked like Vintage american world War ii a he  indicted in Witt Case Santa Ana Calif. A a Federal grand jury has indicted a California Man on charges he mailed obscene and threatening letters to olympic ice skating Champion Katarina Witt. Harry Veltman Iii allegedly sent Witt five letters containing obscene material one letter threatening to Hurt her and another containing a death threat assistant . Attorney Wayne Gross said. Veltman allegedly sent the letters to witty a Home in Altenhof Germany Between november 1990 and july 30, 1991, when the death threat was received. If convicted of All charges he could receive a prison term of 35 years and More than $1 million in fines Gross said. Witt won Gold medals for former East Germany in women a individual ice skating at the 1984 and 1988  family slain Chicago a a husband and wife and their infant daughter were found slain Friday in their ransacked apartment and police said the three family members had been bludgeoned and possibly stabbed to death. Police said Juan Hernandez 38 his wife Olga 25 and their 10-month-old daughter Emily were found dead in two rooms of their three room apartment on Chicago a North Side. Authorities at first believed the victims had been shot to death but an investigation disclosed that All three had been beaten with a Blunt instrument and possibly stabbed. Police went to the apartment after being called by relatives who had been unable to Contact the family for two Days. There was no indication of a motive. Rebuff greets painting of Bush in Buff