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Yeah. Yeah. There is the possibility. According to county Sheriff Douglas James, that other bodies may be in the hills around santa cruz hills so thickly forested that they preclude a detailed or exhaustive search to test that possibility. It was near here last weekend that the bodies

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of four young men were found. 25 year old Herbert Mullin has been accused of those murders and six others at the county office building today. District Attorney Peter chang said he would seek grand jury indictments against mullen and when prodded by reporters expressed his view about

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the onslaught of murder in his county. I think our old drug way of life in fact that there's so many people on welfare and they come down here, anybody can get welfare, anybody can go out in the hills and do their own thing our whole way

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of life and the responsibilities that we we ask of individuals is ridiculous. The people in the county afraid at the moment it's a girl. I don't know, there's been no expression of that to your office. I don't think there's the kind of fear that pervaded this

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county after the odors were murdered. Why not? What would be different? Well, you had a lot of things in the Yoda case. You had that note that promised revenge on all people who have big houses. Um you had, you just had a lot of bizarre, very

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bizarre things in that case that are not present here. Mhm. Mullen is being held here in the san mateo county jail in Redwood City District Attorney chang calls the santa Cruz County jail one of the most antiquated in the state and for security reasons, mullen

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is being held here. Battle brian eyewitness News, Redwood City. The bodies were discovered last week on Eden Canyon Road east of Castro Valley. Both were found lying just over the side of the road near a water heater. Someone had discarded their Alameda County Sheriff's investigators combed

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the area friday, searching for any possible clue that might be found. Both girls had been decapitated and the hands from one body had been cut off Alice Liu and Rosalind Thorpe were last seen February five Miss Thorpe. While hitchhiking from campus. Miss Lou at the University

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Library, strict procedures have been requested of the student body by the school's administration here in santa cruz. For in addition to the disappearance now murders of Miss Liu and Miss thorpe. Nine coeds from this campus have reported being raped by a man who picked them up

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while they were hitchhiking a coed from another area College is missing and since last august the bodies or remains of bodies of three other co EDS to from cabrillo College, one from Fresno state have been found in the santa cruz area. Mhm. Mhm mm