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Thursday • November 10, 1994 "J"HE J^ATTALION The Battalion ‘ Page! Police say man killed, cut up his mother AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A man found in bed with pieces of his mother’s corpse con fessed to her killing, telling police she was a “vampire devil” and that he “cut out both of her hearts.” Henry M. Heepe told police he beat his 77-year-old mother, Barbara Heepe, to death, then stabbed her and removed her organs. Officers found some of the body parts in a pan on a stove, and Police Capt. Paul Callahan said investigators believe Heepe may have eaten some of the others. His mouth was smeared with blood when he. was arrested, Summit County Coroner William Cox said Wednesday. “I killed my mother,” Heepe was quot ed as saying in a police report. “She was a vampire devil. I cut out both other hearts. It took her five hours to die.” An autopsy that lasted all day Wednes day showed Heepe’s mother had been beaten around the face, head, chest and arms and strangled, Cox said. She was stabbed and disemboweled after she died, the coroner said. Heepe, 50, was charged with murder. His arraignment was delayed while he was hospitalized Wednesday for treat ment of diabetes. Police entered the Heepe home Monday night after a neighbor, Mary Hendrick son, said a boy raking leaves reported hearing a woman cry for help. As officers checked the house, they heard a man chanting, “Die, die, die,” the Akron Beacon Journal reported Wednesday. They said Heepe had barricaded himself inside a bedroom and refused to come out. After trying for more than an hour to talk him into leaving the room, they final ly forced open the door and discovered him nude on the bed, surrounded by pieces of the corpse. He was apparently engaging in a sex act with the bowel, Cox said. The lower half of the woman’s stomach, her right eye, her spleen and a small part of her small intestine were missing. A knife was found near a toilet, which left open the possibility Heepe may have flushed the missing body parts down the toilet, Cox said. Heepe was a patient at Akron General Hospital, said spokeswoman Susan Hobson, but she declined to discuss his condition. SAVE 30% TO 50% ON Selected Misses Worthington Collections. SAVE 25% TO 30% ON Save JCPenney 30% off ! , Savings Certificate ; Save 30% on any one ! regular priced item today ! through Saturday, November ! SAVE 25% TO 33% ON All Men’s Sweaters, Fleece and Flannel 12th. MUST PRESEN CPCJPON. Selected Misses Sweaters. DlSCOCim DOES NOT APPl Y IO PRI VIOUS PtJRCI IASI.S. As an extra benelit, use this Bonus Coupon to Saw- 30% Off the regular pik e rtf any one item you didn't find on Sale. Some merchandise exclusions apply. Save SAVE 25% TO 40% ON Selected Men’s and Women’s Athletic Shoes. oTO 30% ON SAVE 25% TO 40% ON SAVE 25% TO 30% ON Selected Women’s Fashion Jeweleiy & Lorus Disney^® Watches. Selected Men’s and Women’s Shoes. Selected Boys and Girls Casual Tops. save 30% TO 40% ON SAVE 25% TO 50% ON SAVE 30% ON '' I Selected Misses Blouses I Selected Handbags & & Casual Tops. I Small Leather Goods. Boy’s Michael James Wrinkle Free Slacks Reg. 19.99 Now 13.99. SAVE 30% TO 50% ON SAVE 25% TO 50% ON SAVE 25% TO 40% ON Selected Bras, Briefs, and Bikinis. Selected Women’s Dresses. I Selected Bedding. TSTr. ©1994. JCPenney Company. Inc. *!»Discount applies only to regular-priced merchandise and is limited to JCPenney in-store stock on hand. Not for use in Cosmetic Department, on Smart Value merchandise, Gucci watches. Marquis by Waterford Crystal, Fieldcrest Royal Velvet towels and rugs. Catalog or Catalog Outlet Store merchandise, or in combination with ony other coupon. Discount can apply to one or more items purchased. As always, credit purchases are subject to review. Cash value 1/20 of one cent. Discount does not apply to previously purchased merchandise. D <Z> I <3k Thursd DAYI WIN Sport Ti I’m no Park t< Smith Roger any an Con Abe IV watchi take o in the offs. IV a star the Roi I’ve him pli squad being 1 I’m fin rip son Whe Ed (4 was be than pi letic or (Chr Me: to opei tonight he’s gol Mon your fc finishes 20 of t is just i As \ inches, of the play ba I every was Ed edgeabl (Hot base) Me: do I ha ball to the rur you hai week. I out Roi the teai Over proved end of getting baskett 5 feet 9 Whe Christn the ma you coi hoping them ai a block inches, Ed (\