European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 29, 1992 . The stars and stripes Page 7two men pick wrong target for carjacking by Susan Forrest new stay new York a at the end of Anne Sterns 24 hours of lights cameras and especially action three police officers stopped by her apartment just to Tell her she had a a guts for fighting off two car hijackers on thanksgiving Day. But Stern could not get Over one thing about her ordeal her age 73, is no longer a secret. Almost in unison police officers Anthony Fanara and John Muzek said a you done to look 73.�?� add cd sgt. Beth Cronin a Well we think you re terrific. You be got a lot of on thursday about 3 . Stern a retired Secretary was on her Way to thanksgiving dinner with relatives on Long Island when she and her 1991 Nissan Maxima were targeted by would be car Ackers. Once she realized the men were not armed Stern said she opted to fight Back sides wiping their car each time they ran into hers and trying to run Down one of the men then shifting into reverse and dragging him after he attempted to pull her out of the car. A i wanted to kill them with my car a Stern said. A at first it seemed they Only wanted my car. Then when 1 fought Back they wanted to kill me. In a amazed at How i the men eventually gave up and fled and passers by who heard her screams stopped to help. Later that night in an interview with new Day she joked to a reporter that the seemingly inexperienced would be thieves were possibly a carjacking police were still trying to find the suspects and witnesses Friday. Anne Stern 73, poses with her car thursday Atler fighting off an attempted carjacking on Long Island . Once everything was Over she said she was worried and angry. She was worried about being sued by local homeowners whose lawns she drove Over to escape the attempted car Ackers. She was livid Over her age being released to the Media by police when her friends and acquaintances thought she was born in 1925, not 1919. And two months after quitting she smoked her first cigarette Friday not because of the stress from her ordeal and its aftermath but rather she said because she had not eaten due to the stress and Media circus that followed. A a in a not Tough a she said tired from Lack of sleep. Quot but i m not an old lady either. Look at my born in Brooklyn Stern said that she was raised by several relatives from age 10 to 13 after her parents split up and neither wanted her. At age 13, she Anil her father moved into a Rooming House that was also a Brothel she said. She said that she had been estranged from her husband for 17 years before he died last year. They had one child Mark 38, who is a doctor and administrator at the veterans affairs Hospital in Albany. The manager of the pastrami King a Deli near Sterns Forest Hills Home invited her for a free dinner with As Many guests As she wants while a police officer on the phone with her late Friday told her she had fugitive shoots self after most wanted show Milford Conn. A for More than 13 years Joseph Florczak lived on the run As a fugitive wanted in the 1978 stabbing death of his sex wife. Authorities say he crisscrossed the country used at least 15 aliases pulled off Small robberies to support himself and periodically changed his appearance. A nationwide manhunt failed to find Florczak until last week when he showed up at his former wife a grave and shot himself in the Chest. He survived and was charged sunday with murder and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Florczak 66, had been living in Sacramento calif., for a year until August when he was featured on Fox televisions americans most wanted. In a suicide note Florczak did not confess to killing Dorothy Florczak but he said the crime solving show made him fear that police were closing in on him. A the said after he saw his picture on to he knew he had to take off a said Stratford police it. Thomas Rodia. After the program More than 70 people reported seeing Florczak in California Florida Nevada and Texas. Police in Milford where Dorothy Florczak was killed scaled Florczak a arrest warrant and would not discuss the Case except to say it is a continuing homicide investigation. Florczak was a suspect in his wife a death almost from the beginning but police did not have enough evidence to Issue a warrant until 10 months after the killing. By then Florczak had disappeared. Dorothy for czako a family always thought Joseph Florczak was the killer. During the couples 21-year marriage she never talked about her husband mis treating her but when they divorced in 1971 she told her family he had beaten and tormented her for most of their married life said her brother William Krafick. Florczak worked As a machinist at the Singer sewing machine co. In Bridgeport while his wife worked As a waitress and raised their three children a James Debbie and Rob a in Derby. An investigator who worked on the Case in 1978 said for czako a children remembered their father terrorizing their Mother. A Fie would Tell his wife she talk on the Telephone today then he would go outside sneak Back in the cellar and stay there ail Day to Sec if she talked on the phone a said the investigator who spoke on condition of anonymity. A the would leave dolls in Glass jars with nooses around their necks just to terrorize her a Krafick said. A the jars were filled with water because Dorothy after she filed for divorce in 1970, Dorothy Florczak moved from town to town in Connecticut because she was afraid of her husband who was enraged Over the divorce Krafick said. On oct. 24, 1978, Dorothy Florczak 47, was found dead of multiple Stab wounds on the front Lawn of her apartment Complex in Milford. In july 1979, police in san Diego found Joseph Florczak s diary in a car abandoned near the scene of a fast food restaurant Holdup. In an entry on mothers Day 1979, Storc Zak wrote a it his Day makes me realize All the More what 1 have done. Jim Deb and Rob must suffer through this Day and Many of them in years to Florczak was under 24-hour police guard this week at Bridgeport Hospital where he was listed in Good condition Friday. He is expected to be released into police custody within the next week for arraignment. Magic to fight lawsuit on alleged his infection Okemos Mich. A magic Johnson said he will not Settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims he gave her the virus that causes aids. No we re not going to Settle a he told the Lansing state journal on Friday while signing autographs of his autobiography my life at a Bookstore in Okemos near his Hometown of East Lansing. Its not on my mind every Day a he said of the suit. A a fill be taken care of. We know some lies they be said already and its pretty Clear for their Case that they have to attack my t he woman sued Johnson for $2 Milium claiming he infected her with the his virus. She is identified Only As Jane Doe in court documents. A Federal judge in Kalamazoo where the lawsuit was tiled decided in Early november to keep the woman a name secret because her right to privacy outweighed the Public a right to know her identity. Theodore Swift the woman a attorney said he is continuing to prepare for the hunkering Down for world War Iii a he said. Johnson signed about 350 copies of his autobiography on Friday. About 500 people flocked to Schuler books for a glimpse of the former los Angeles lakers superstar. Johnson told the world of his his infection on nov. 7, 1991, when he Abo retired from the Aba. After playing in the olympics he decided to return to basketball then changed his mind on nov. 2, when he lied a Brief statement announcing his re retirement. Wounded . Policeman Dies after years in coma a. Pm a. Tunic Chr Nonh Fin or remint Al nor by the new York times new Yor William t. Gunn a new York City police officer who had been in a coma since he was shot pursuing a murder suspect almost four years ago died Friday at the skilled nursing facility of Franklin Hospital medical a enter in Valley Stream. I be was 31. Gunn who had joined the police department in 1982, was shot on Jan. 20, 1989, As he and two other plainclothes officers tried to capture a suspect wanted Lor questioning i. Two homicides. The Thiec Oil ice is All assigned to the 67th precinct in fast Flatbush Brooklyn had gone to a Bedford Stuyvesant apartment building looking Lor the suspect. As one of Gunn s partners moved up the building s stairway a Man burst through an apartment door firing and wounded the officer in the shoulder. When Gunn rushed to his fallen partners Aid he was shot in that head. His partner detective Louis r. Rango subsequently recovered. The suspect Ralph Richardson 20, escaped an intensive police manhunt that Day in part by hiding in a nearby apartment and killing its occupant a 67-year-old woman. But a week later after committing several robberies and being wounded in the thigh by an Oli duty police officer while robbing a video store Richardson shot himself to death in a stolen car on a desolate dead end Street in Brooklyn. Last Panl a Park at Public school 18 in Bellerose Queens was dedicated in Gunn s Honor
