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Tolson DeLosch * . . oe, Mohr : Pe te catnit3 co , states ft Bishop e e : e - Casper ——__ Callahan —_____ . a Conrad —___ . . . _ eee F Prowl in c.A. By MICHAEL McGOVERN 4 — Staff Correspondent of Tae News Los Angeles, Aug. 11—Fears that a sadistic maniac was on the prowl ballooned today following a report from the coroner's office that a married couple found brutally murdered in their secluded Hollywood home were Killed “in a manner closely related” to the savage murders of-actress a c The same method wa 0-19 (Rev. 7-17-68) as elt —__ Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy i Sharon Tate apd four ' other persons. | “It’s a carbon copy of the | earlier murders,” said a po- | lice investigator of the death of grocery.chain heir Leno ' La Bianca and his wife, ; Rosemary, who were found | dead last night, 36 hours | after the discovery of the | bodies of Miss Tate and the :. others. A coroner's office spokesman | disclosed his findings after view- ing the bodies of the La Bianca tl li rders, On the door e earlier murders, On the door cP SHPO homes csmenred i the blood by the heel of a hand—was the word “pig.” La Bianca's body was sprawled on the floor. A big heavyset man, he was wearing trousers but his white shirt had been ripped open and a meat-carving fork was stuck in his chest. The word “war” was carved into his chest, apparently with the fork. Under- neath the word, the killer had cut several Xs into his body. ite pillow caseweazerad his head and a ‘ampuoosd—bad beer-ttedt“around his neck. His wife lay face down in the The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) — ‘The Sunday Star (Washington), Daily News (New York) ae Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Joumal The National Observer ____ People’s World Examiner (Washington) bedroom next to her bed. She, was wearing a negligee which fad been pulled over per head. ler baci en 50 badly mu- i The latest murders threw the tilated that police could not at investigation of Sharoi ving | first determine whether she had into chaos. Police, almost without been stabbed or beaten with a clues in the death of Sharon, the whip. Later, it was theorized that wife of Polish film director Ro- she had been stabbed with a man Polanski, working around bayonet-like weapon. the clock when they had to halt Through the long night, fright. that investigation and turn their ened residents of Los Feliz stood attention to the new killings. on their lush lawns or came to At least one suspect inthe Tate | the scene to watch police go in case is still at large. and out of the isolated single- second suspect, William E. Garretson, a 19-year-old caretak- er at the Benedict Canyon estate, was released today without any charge now pending against him. ‘The latest victims were La Bianca, 44, an insurance agent, and his wife, Rosemary, 38. Two teenage children from a previous | couple. Full autopsies are still to be performed. Working Around Clock story white stucco home. Thovgh, onlookers codttzet-no neaser_than the foot of the 100- foot driveway leading—te—she house, they watched detectives who stood silhouetted against a jsingle house light as they dusted the front door for fingerprints. f™ marriage of Mrs. La Bianca, At one point, a neighbor Praok and Suzan ! Struthers, came |{broug!t out field elesses and fo- . upon t ed through the open front , returned home at 10:30 last night. [/ S08r"on the tiving room wall, He Date AUG 12 sas Stunned police found strong : similarity between the murders of the La Biancas and those at the Benedict Canyon Estate. _ In the latest murders, the killer dipped a hand in his victims’ blood and smeared the words “death to pigs” in foot-high print across a Jiving room wall. Police said the killer used the heel of his ha: tly in an ef! t to leave any fingerprints. spelled out his findings to the small crowd: “d-e-a-t-h”’ — the first bloody word of the message. Inch-by-Inch Search At sunrise, eight rookie police- men in T-shirts were driven to the scene, They were handed prods and began an inch-by-inch . / 11304 u search of the big well-maniecured Jaw, uest house main house. ENCLOSURE \2