Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-11-20
Condetti Death
Spurs Check
In Northeast

year-old Michael Condetti.
Sim ulta me ously, Prince
Georges County CMd.) police
men were questioning hundreds
of people, including eight sus-
poets, about the murder.
One suspect, a 27-year-old
laborer, was picked up for ques-
tioning by Washington police
Friday night and released last
night after questioning failed
to connect him with the case.
Police said he was known
deviate.
Three-Way Hunt
The full-scale Federal, Dis
trict and Maryland investiga-
ton into Michael's death was
concentrated on three fronts:
Washington police and FBI
men are going to houses and
apartments over a wide area Of
the Brentwood Village section,
where Michael lived at 2415
Fourteenth street NE, seeking
any clue they can find.
Maryland officers are CENTER
ing their efforts on the wooded
Admore section where the boys
suffocated body was found
Thursday afternoon.
FBI men and policemen Of
both Maryland and the District
are going through their files Of
known sex perverts with records
of child molestation to check
alibis and attempt to get a lead
on the killer.
Man Questioned
Capt. Wilson ]. Purdy Of the
Prince Georges County police,
said one man was still being
questioned late last night in the
Seat Pleasant station. In gen.
eral, police indicated they have
no leads to the slayer, however.
Meanwhile, new evidence in
the st. Anthony's Parochial
School second graders death
was meager. A pathologist's re-
port to Prince Georges County
police indicated the victim had
eaten a piece of citrus fruit
shortly before his death.
Michael, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Augustine j., Condetti, vanished
about $3.50 pm. Monday after
telling his mother he was going
to a variety store a block away
to price school book bags.
The disappearance Of the boy,
who was known to be afraid
in the dark. set of widespread
police hunt. His body was found
Thursday afternoon by a hunter
in a wooded area near George
Palmer highway in Prince
Georges County.
Died of Suffocation
He had died of suffocation,
police said, and had been sex
ually assaulted. Time of death
was fixed no more exactly than
from 48 to u hours before
his body was found.
The discovery, which pros
trated his parents and shocked
the Washington area, set of
a gigantic manhunt. Without
knowing whether the boy was
kidnapped in Washington and
was slain in Maryland or
whether the murder happened
in Washington, Maryland and
District police began checking
more than 5000 known perverts
for any evidence that would
point to the killer.
The FBI Joined in the search
with agents from both the
Baltimore and Washington
Field Offices.
The first even tentative break
in the case occurred Friday
morning when a man found
Michael's shoes and turned
them over to District police.
Some of the boys clothing was
found near his body but his
shoes were missing.
Shoes Neatly Tied
However. Frank E. Parezo, 20,
OF 1925 Franklin street NE,
found them lying in a gutter in
front Of his home early Friday
morning and turned them over
to police. He said the shoes
were neatly tied when he spot
ted them in front of his house,
a few blocks from the Condetti
home.
Police were investigating a
report from two boys, IA and Is
years old, who live in the
Northeast section, that they
were approached last Friday
by a man claiming to be a
doctor.
The boys told police they
were in the vicinity Of Fourth
street and Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE. when the man drove
up in a car and offered them
81 to get in. They told police
the man said he was a doctor
and would give them a physi-
cal examination, according to
detectives. They described the
man as white and about %.
Detectives said the boys told
them they did not get into the
car.
Michael will be buried at
II am. tomorrow in Arlington
Cemetery following a $3.50 am.
funeral mass at st. Anthony's
Catholic Church, Twelfth and
Monroe streets NE.