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e, wea ~\- 2 Tolson 0-19 (Rev. 7-17-68) x . DeLozch ae Mohr TET itr tbe ke eof Bishop Casper Callahan —__e Conrad elt istic Killer on Fear Sad | uae! fais rn eee _ —— Gale @ : Rosen ro W/ in Sullivan , Tavel wee anes . moe > Trotter #, eet —_—_— By MICHAEL McGOVERN 4 Tele. Room Staff Correspondent of THE NEWS ‘ Holmes Gandy 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 ofactress 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 couple. Full autopsies are still to be performed. Working Around Clock , The latest murders threw the investigation of Sharon’s slaying into chaos. Police, almost without clues in the death of Sharon, the wife of Polish film director Ro- man Polanski, working around the clock when they had to halt that investigation and turn their attention to the new killings. At least one suspect in the Tate case is still at large. A second suspect, William E. Garretson, a 19-year-old caretak- er at the Benedict Canyon estate, was released today without any to CCOUNENODMAMERD Hone tenmeNEaNLeDLHSUNEHEEMHE® &w cote nesacsonasenserenanabeseeeteeaneehioh seatnbenten ottsgncteBAPMMMRGE cattoscane esa charge now pending against him. ! The latest victims were La Bianca, 44, an and his wife, Rosemary, 38. Two teenage children from a previous marriage of Mrs. Bianca, Frank and Susan Struthers, came upon the grotesque scene as they returned home at 10:30 last night. Stunned police found strong similarity between the murders of the La Biancas and those at the Benedict Canyon Estate . urance agent, FON ce eten eg pete es mae In the Jatest 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 to leave any fingerprints. \2 The same method wae~esee—an the earlier murders. On the door o arons home—smeared in 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. te pillow casencozerad his head and 2 lampwoord—bad beermtiet*around his neck. His wife lay face down in the bedroom next to her bed. had been pulled over her head. Her back had been so badly mu- tilated that police could not at ; first determine whether she had been stabbed or beaten with a whip. Later, it was theorized that she had been stabbed with a bayonet-like weapon. hrough the long night, fright- ened residents of Los Feliz stood on their lush lawns or came to the scene to watch police go in and out of the isolated single- story white stucco home. eahorgh onlookers codttgtt-10 neaeverthan the foot of the 100- foot driveway Jeadi e house, they watched detectives | who stood silhouetted against a isingle house light as they dusted the front door for fingerprints. At one point, a neighbor broug®.t out field glasses and fo- cused through the open front door on the living room wall. He 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 rearch of the big well-manieured law uest house niain house. She , was wearing a negligee which: ENCLOSURE The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) .- The Sunday Star (Washington), Daily News (New York) —e¢——.—__— Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Examiner (Washington) Date AUG 14 4a: