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Murders i ] By Associs LOS ANGELES - The this city for months, kil 1977 and this past Febru dead? Lying low? Perha They're tough questic been chasing the Strang! anyone. "You got 20 investigal Angeles County Sheriff Salerno, who has been 01 OF THE 13 Hillside S September, two in Octo December, all of 1977, ai It was a year ago this i Strangler Task Force strangling young wome the city's hillsides. At it ce had 140 members a phones were ringing off Rewards totaling $125 county, but they have si Div< of SAVANNAH, Ga. (A sought today to get a warship they cannot sei Georgia, sunk as Uni William Sherman's arn on this city during the C Although the ironcl rests only 30 feet d Savannah harbor, the muddy that divers can if they are touching i Rick Anuskiewicz, th< Corps of Engineers who is leading an salvage the Georgia. "WE FEEL she's hi layer of silt," which cellent preservat Anuskiewicz. The pi A AT TM CORN El I' pjt? m \ 5g:j:vx': Pp T LOCATED Ih 1-26 at have ceased; f Hillside Bill Gardner P ited Press Writer n Hillside Strangler, who terrorized p iea ij women Deiween bepiemoer p iary. Then nothing. Why not? Is he s ps somewhere else? n >ns, and the detectives who have ler for a year are just as baffled as tors; you got 20 theories," said Los 's Department investigator Frank 1 the case more than a year. Itrangler killings, police list one in ber, eight in November and one in id one this past February. monin inai ponce set up ine niusiae i to track down whoever was n and leaving their nude bodies on s peak this past winter the task forind occupied a large room where the hooks with tips from citizens. ' ( ,000 were offered by the city and the nee been withdrawn. Gradually the srs attem] O* _ ! 117 uvii war P) - Divers was to use instruments f profile of a boat to do a "side s e ? the CSS produce a profile of the G on General ny closed in If that is successful, ivilWar. next steps will be to down to the ship to try t lad gunboat its length and, by ieeiinj own in the along the wreck, to tr; water is so mine how badly it 't see it even damaged by time, by e ts hull, said salt water and by beinj ; U.S. Army dredges and other ships, archeologist attempt to The hull was found in a dredge tore ofl of its railroad tra iried under a Navy divers went do i means ex- time and, although t ion, said measure the ship or re an Tuesday state of preservation, t PPiARING THIS WEEK IE THUNDERBIRD LOUNGE JUS BROS- & SISTER R02 mm <w ipgpl HUNDERBIRD LOUNGE I THE THUNDERBIRD MOTC ST. ANDREWS RD. 772-647 police bqffl i strai hones stopped ringing, the tif sduced to 18 investigators, w; 'l'ho fo i lnrn f a cr\li;n fV?to /-?o , *??v AMI IU- V. IV OUITC UllO Vtt. olice officials for a long ti olice Chief Daryl Gates, w aid, "I'm embarrassed eve lirror." <T The fire, so to spe For whatever rec of crimes was st< GATES, WHO has since b sisted all along that his nr department's top spokesmai the chief still feels the case and the investigators do," Bo ^4 |JL 9G1VC gunbo >ulled by a an idea of can" and Anuskiewicz sa reorgia. "THE NAV1 one of the were guns int get divers tact," said A ;o measure drew a sketch 5 their way top had fallen ii y to deterhas been Nothing more exposure to CSS Georgia, ; struck by tensive search begun to learn r 1968, when ' a chunk 1 . - V= f; ck armor. sgg wn at that hey didn't [ ; port on the t ^ S hey did get ' m * M ngnr m i )R INN KHUI 0 1 BE! ed ngler s >s dried up and the task force, i<i mnvpH tn n Qm;illor rnnm se has been a sore point with me. In December, Assistant ho headed the investigation, ry time I look at myself in the ?ak, was put out. json, this series ;>pped. I een promoted to chief, has inen would solve the case. The n, Cmdr. William Booth, said will be solved. "He does, I do oth said. lge r s at i what was there, tid. { divers said there act and boilers in- rr^ nuskiewicz. "They indicating that the n." i is known about the although an ex1 of records has nore. I till at According to Booth, the task focus, separating the wheat fi valuable lead and what is not.' He said that even now, ni killing, investigators "have a r But sheriff's investigator S? "At this point we have no ta sheriff has jurisdiction in tw< closely with the police task fori About a year ago womer wouldn't venture out alone, defense classes sprang up at c< ddi iiivijc, nas Qimmea u have been other things to thii mudlides, Proposition 13, mar fires that burned 200 homes, th election and a new series of k tims less worrisome to the ] women. Around town today, you won That was yesterday's problem. The case isn't solved, but the As Booth put it, "The fire, s< whatever reason, this series of MNBI % "TOMWB85I IV^i NEED TO \ 3UY SELL\ ^ TRADE? /OV / cv ' jlli?ljflj jt . 8MB I j jBBHUa 7tBteK? iTm?1T nn^ large force is now "sharpening its om the chaff as to what is a ne months after the latest lumber of good leads." alerno told a different story, mgible leads," he said. The 3 of the murders and works ce. v K rn innrn A tVT onu 1 llVi U TT VI \/ JVOI VU. especially after dark. Selfalleges and high schools. le fears and interest. There nk about 88 heavy rains and idatory school busing, brush\c San Diego air collision, the billing but this time with vicpublic derelicts, not young 't hear talk of the strangler. killing ended. o to speak, was put out. For crimes was stopped." 11 Wk . Hi W/i m mm I | m. 1