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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1981
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Discovery of body ups Atlanta death toll to 2
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United Press International
ATLANTA — The body of a
black teen-ager was found lying on
a dead-end street Tuesday and
officials said he probably would be
listed as the 28th victim in Atlan
ta’s string of murdered and mis
sing young blacks.
The youth was identified as
William Barrett, 17, who appa
rently had been dead for about
three hours when his body was
found.
The body was discovered on
the southeastern fringes of the city
at 1:30 a.m., about the same time
he was reported missing.
Prior to Tuesday’s discovery,
26 young blacks have been found
slain in Atlanta during the past 21
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months. In addition, another
child, 10-year-old Darron Glass, is
listed as missing.
Barrett’s name was not im
mediately turned over to a special
task force established to investi
gate the baffling string of slayings,
but officials said the killing “fit the
profile,” and the task force was
called to the scene.
“I believe this is a case that will
be on the task force list, ’’ said De-
Kalb -police spokesman Chuck
Johnson. “They’ve been here all
night long and it probably will be
the 28th one (including Glass)
added to the task force list.’’
“We believe it’s related (to the
other cases),” Johnson said. “It’s
really hard to determine which
cases are related, but it certainly
fits the profile of the other missing
and murdered children.”
He said an autopsy was sche
duled later in the day to deter
mine the exact cause of death.
was received by DeKalb County
police almost simultaneously with
the report that a body had been
found on the dead-end road that
runs parallel to Interstate 20 just
outside Atlanta’s southeastern
limits.
“We are following a policy to
make no public comment on evi
dence or condition of the body
other than to say it was not decom
posed,” Johnson said. “We are
going on the assumption that the
child was murdered.
He said a passing motorist first
called Atlanta police who passed
the call on to DeKalb County.
About 15 regular police officers
and cadets in training turned out
at daybreak to comb the woods
between the street where the
body was found and the city’s main
east-west expressway, chopping at
the undergrowth with machetes
and packing green plastic garbage
bags with items culled from the
ground.
Eleven of the 26 who have died
since July, 1979, have been found
since January and six of those were
recovered from two rivers — the
Chattahoochee and the South —
that wind through the city’s sub
urbs.
The discovery followed by one
day a trip to Washington by Mayor
Maynard Jackson and officials of
Fulton and DeKalb counties who
asked for $1.2 million to help fund
supervised recreation for area
youngsters during the summer.
Vice President George Bush
told the officials that he would “ex
pedite a decision” on the request.
Jackson asked for $700,000 and
officials of the two counties asked
for lesser amounts to keep chil
dren off the streets while school is
out for the summer.
Atlanta setting up J
summer program
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ATLANTA — Mayor Maynard Jackson and other city officials^
a promise from Vice President George Bush to expedite theint
quest for $1.2 million to fund a summer youth program and“redu!
drastically the vulnerability” of the city’s black children.
Twenty-six young blacks have died in the last 21 months,ai
authorities are worried more youths will be abducted this sun®
unless they are involved in supervised activity.
One child, Darron Glass, 10, is still missing. A secondh
previously missing turned up unharmed Monday night,
Jackson said at the end ofhis half-hour meetingabout the sun®
program with Bush in Washington Monday the vice presidi
promised to “take a hard and fast look at it and they would try top;
us an expedited answer.”
Pete Teeley, Bush’s press secretary, said a ruling on thefeder.
money could come as early as the end of this week.
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RIVEBSIDE, Calif. — A depu
ty coroner says early results of
some autopsies on bodies ex
humed in the investigation into 27
mysterious hospital deaths are in
consistent with their death certifi
cates.
The Riverside County Coron
er’s Office, threatened with a $100
million suit by a male nurse ques
tioned in the deaths, was going to
release results of the autopsies
Monday but did not.
But Deputy Coroner Carl
Smith Jr. said the results of
“some” of the autopsies on 11 ex
humed bodies did not appear to be
consistent with the causes of death
listed on the certificates. He
would not elaborate.
The state attorney general’s
office said it was considering some
type of action against Community
Hospital of the Valleys in Perris,
site of 25 of the mysterious deaths.
Ten of the exhumed bodies
have been reburied and the 11th
returned to a medical school.
Samples from the bodies have
been sent to the Center for Hu
man Toxicology in Salt Lake City.
Earlier autopsies on six bodies
which had not yet been buried or
cremated indicated those patients
did not die of causes listed on their
death certificates.
but the hospital took no action.
Nurse Patricia Christensen said
she became concerned about the
deaths before the arrival of Robert
Diaz, a registered nurse who has
threatened to sue the county for
defamation. Although he has not
been named as a suspect, he was
questioned in the case because he
worked at the Perris hospital,
where 25 elderly patients died in
the intensive care unit in a two
month period, and at San Gorgo-
nio Pass Memorial Hospital in
Banning, where two patients died
mysteriously.
Authorities said the soraed;
bodies autopsied so far haven
tained large doses of Lidocaiu
a drug commonly used in ink
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The former director of nursing
at the Perris hospital told the Los
Angeles Times Monday she repe
atedly urged officials to investi
gate a string of mysterious deaths
At least six Los Angeles County
hospitals where Diaz worked are
also being investigated.
A raid on Diaz’ home turned up
two vials of Lidocaine, a half-vial
of morphine sulfate, a syringe and
intravenous tubing. He told inves
tigators he probably had put the
drugs in his pocket during a hos
pital emergency and failed to re
turn them.
beat of patients suspected ofi
fering heart attacks.
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drug can produce convulsions,
death but the coroner has not
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of any of the patients.
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came concerned over the mn
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occurred March 26, three daw!
fore Diaz was sent to thePe
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just like I did,” said Christens
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were more deaths in the intens
care unit and Christensen said
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MADISON, Wis. — There
ought to be a law against people
who work too hard, referees with
poor eyesight, lake flies and, of
course, homework on weekends,
say junior high school students.
“People shouldn’t overload
themselves with work, although
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potential,” said Sue Mitchell.
Mitchell was one of the winners
of a contest conducted by Sen.
Gary Goyke, D-Oshkosh, who
asked 7th and 8th graders in his
district to tell him what laws
should be passed. The winners
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Capitol.
The winners wanted laws elimi
nating unnecessary laws, position
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cracking down on child abuse and
requiring annual safety inspec
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Many of the more than 200 let
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as war, abortion, gun control,
capital punishment, pollution,
smoking and crime. Some of those
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problems on their minds.
“There ought to be a law that
says referees should have perfect
eyesight,” wrote Wayne Arndt.
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