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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Saturday december 11,19932nd child found dead St. Louis a eight Days of searching for a 10-year-old ended when teen agers came across her broken body in a trash strewn Alley. Now police a already investigating the slaying of a 9-year-old a suspect there s a serial killer at  said Cassidy a a Cassie Senter who was abducted dec. 1, probably had been dead for several Days before her body was found. But no one spotted it amid the bricks broken Glass and other rubble in the Alley until thursday a it was beat up. Beat up bad Quot said Demetrius Phillips one of the teen agers who discovered the body still clothed in i eans and a polka Dot sweater in Pink ice favorite color Cassie who was to have been narrator in her school s Christmas program next week vanished in suburban Bridgeton while walking to a Friend s House about a Block away to put up Christmas lights. A neighbor heard Cassie s personal alarm wailing on the ground and looked out Side. By then she was gone. Quot we a got to catch whoever did this to this Little girl a police chief Clarence Harmon said. Police said there were similarities in the slayings of Cassie and 9-year-old Angie Marie hous Man of the neighbouring suburb of St. Ann. Angie s body was found nov. 27 in a wildlife preserve nine Days Cassidy after she Digap four Block shared while walking the cd _ ome from her bus Stop. Police and Fri investigators formed a task Force and called in an expert on serial filters from the Fri Academy in Quan Tico va., to help develop a profile of the Kilter or killers. �?o1 think there a a definite connection a hundreds gather to bid to Polly Petaluma Calif. A they handed out roses at the memorial service for Polly Klaas. Like the 12-year-old, they were in Bud Cut Down before they could Bloom. A this is where the most excruciating pain lies to know that she was taken from us so Early a family Friend Michael Groves said thursday night As Petaluma bade a wrenching Farewell to the girl whose abduction brought out the kindness of thousands of strangers. Many of the 1,500 people who gathered inside St. Vincent do Paul roman Catholic Church to mourn Polly had never even met her. A we will never forget her a said . Sen Dianne Feinstein a Calif a indelibly she will live in our hearts because All of us know a 12-Ycar-old full of life sunny smiling looking Forward to the  Polly was kidnapped by a knife wielding intruder oct. 1 As inc and two friends held a slumber party in her Home. Scared and angry this farming Community of about 45,000 an hour North of san Francisco formed a Volunteer search Effort that reached across the nation for two months Hopes ran High. But on dec. 4, the search ended in a Roadside Thicket about 50 Miles North of Petaluma where police following the directions of suspect Richard Allen Davis found All that remained of Polly a the Way in which Polly died has brought us As dose to the face of hell As most of us will Ever get in this lifetime a said writer and lecturer ram Dass. A we be looked directly into the Eye of the mystery the mystery of suffering and the mystery of death.�?�. Mourners included Republican gov. Pete Wilson democratic . Sen. Barbara Boxer actress Winona Ryder and singers Joan Baez and Linda Ronstadt girls held hands and hugged one another As they broke into sobs. Sitting in a far Corner of the Church Polly a school band Leader put his head into his hands and wept. In the front Row Polly a father Marc Klaas cried openly. Her Mother Evein 11.-23  to few Cost on St. Louis chief of detectives James j. Hackett said. A i think we have a child killer  adding to fears was the abduction and slaying of 12-year-old Polly Klaas in Petaluma Calif., and three attempted abductions reported in recent weeks in the St. Louis area. Those cases involved girls Ages 10,11 and 12. In the latest incident a 12-year-old in East Alton 111., told authorities that a Man tried to lure her into his pickup truck As she waited for a school bus thursday morning. When she refused the Man got out and chased her she said but she escaped by running Home. The killings have gripped the modest suburbs where both of the slain girls had lived. More than 100 officers had helped search for Cassie and track Down More than 300 tips that came in on a hot line. Mallinckrodt inc. Of St. Louis a medical products company offered a $50,000 Reward for information leading to arrests in the slayings. Three classmates of Polly Klaas embrace before the memorial service for the slain 12-Ycar-old in Petaluma Calif. Nichol strained to keep her composure her smile belied by haunted eyes. Outside hundreds More mourners stood in a soft rain listening to the services a carried live on local television a on a Public address , wrestlers face charges in joke Lynching Morris Minn. Apr a former coach and five College wrestlers have been charged with staging a mock Lynching on halloween that they said was meant As a joke on two Black teammates. A i just can to look at this behaviour and refer to it As a joke or prank a Stevens county attorney Charles Glasrud said. According to a criminal complaint Frank Pelegri a former assistant wrestling coach at the University of Minnesota Morris drove two Black wrestlers to a Rural site where the teammates waited. Some of the wrestlers wore pillowcases resembling the White hoods worn by Kun flux klansmen and a Cross was burning at the site Glasrud said. Pelegri stopped the car grabbed a Bat and stepped out As 1 confront the hooded figures Glasrud thid. A shot was heard and the coach appeared to fall. No one was injured. One of the victims was so frightened he sped to a nearby town and called 911. Pelegri and the five wrestlers were charged with assault Bias assault terroristic threats and negligent fires. Pelegri resigned after the  held in death of Young daughter from wire reports Honolulu a a Sailor has been arrested in the death of his 20-month-old daughter whose body was found in a locked Duffel bag floating in Pearl Harbor. Petty officer Robert Allen Funk 27, reported the girl missing dec. 3. Kit to reported that Funk led investigators to a key that fit the deadlock on the Duffel bag after her Ody was found monday. He was arrested thursday. Funk and his wife Julie divorced in november. Funk won custody of the girl Sheri Lynn and her 3-year-old sister three weeks  decorator killed Knoxville Tenn. A a woman plugging in her outdoor Christmas lights was killed by an alleged Drunken Driver whose car left the Road and slowed through three Yards. The victim was identified As Katie Spangler 67. Karen Boggs 39, was charged with vehicular homicide and Drun ten driving in wednesdays Accident Knox county sheriffs spokesman Dwight  de vate said.4 shot in Holdup Yonkers  men burst into a Delicatessen and shot four people in the head killing one and critically wounding the others. Two suspects were being questioned Friday. The amount of Money taken was not immediately known a police spokesman  watched Mineola . A the Man accused in the shooting rampage on a Long Island commuter train was in protective custody Friday for fear that other inmates might harm him because of his avowed racial hatred officials said. Colin Ferguson was also under close watch out of concern that he might attempt suicide corrections it. Robert Anderson said. The 35-year-old Ferguson was in Nassau county jail accused of killing five passengers and wounding 18 others  thefts alleged new York a Twenty parking meter Coin collectors were accused thursday of stealing thousands of dollars in quarters. Fifteen people were arrested and five others were being sought. Estimates put the City a loss to parking meter theft at More than $1 million a year said City investigation commissioner Susan e. Shepard. The City normally collects about $40 million a year from the  doctor a ill Pontiac Mich. A after fasting for 10 Days in jail or. Jack Kevorkian has lost 10 pounds and is dehydrated said a doctor who examined him thursday. A i would t Call 911 and haul him out of there. But he Sill a said or. Stanley Levy. Kevorkian has been present at 20 suicides since 1990, including five since february when Michigan enacted a Law making assisted suicide a crime. He is being held on $50,000 Cash bail  
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