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related, detectives questioned
young Vinson about the case.
Pvt. Vinson gave them three Of
his .3S-caliber revolvers. The
youth insisted he was innocent
and refused to take a lie detec-
tor test.
He told detectives the poly
graph lie detector was lust
a machine" and that he did
not believe in them.
FBI laboratory technicians
made exhaustive ballistics tests
Of bullets fired from the three
pistols but were unable to con-
meet the battered slugs that
struck Lewis Goldfein with any
of the weapons. The FBI said
1T learned from its tests only
that the bullets were Of Rem
ington or Peters manufacture
and that they were fired from
a .38-caliber Smith g. Wesson
or a similar Spanish model
pistol.
Suspect Set Free
Still suspecting Vinson but
lacking evidence against him,
police let him return to his
home but began searching for
the wild bullets and another
weapon. They also turned their
thoughts to two other violent
incidents in the residential area
since last March.
The first set of incidents in
volved a series Of sniper shoot
ings into the windows of several
Fairfax County homes on
March 81. In those cases, .22-
caliber bullets were fired into
the homes of Hae Kyong Yong
Of 1918 Deborah drive, A. D.
Barkley of 1015 Woodley place
and Jacob Blatt of 1918 Sewell
avenue. There were no injuries. |
That same night, someone |
threw a brick through the win
dow of Mrs. John T. Turoczy
at 10l Woodley place and fired
five shots when Mr.. Turoczy
attempted to chase him.
Detectives said Vinson was
picked up on the street with a
.22-caliber rifle (which he never
returned to police headquarters
to retrieve) but was released
for lack of evidence.
Early in July, a young man
broke into the home of a Fair
fax woman and fired at her
when she screamed. Police had
planned to determine If the
woman could identify Vinson
in a lineup when she re-
cuperates from the birth of a
child in Alexandria Hospital.
At the time of the incident,
the woman gave a description
of the intruder as a slender
young white man.
No Sniper Charges Placed
Chief Durrer said today that,
"as far as am concerned" the
arrest of Vinson also solves the
rash Of sniper shootings in
March and the July shooting
at the woman. However, he
said Vinson had made no state
ment in these cases and no
charges were placed.
Vinson. who police said
writes weird poetry, was on
probation in custody of his
parents from Virginia juvenile
authorities.
He had been committed by
his father to Eastern State
Hospital, a mental institution
in Williamsburg. Va, in 1861,
but escaped. Later, he was
arrested in York County, Va,
on charges Of armed robbery,
kidnapping and. auto theft. He
was sent to the Southwestern
State Hospital in Marion, Va,
for mental observation and was
sent back to the York County
courts where he was placed on
probation, police said.
Commonwealth Attorney
Fitzgerald said the youth had
been found to be not psychotic
at that time.
The 165 10 figure attributed
to Vinson was given by Chief
Durrer.
Lewis Goldfein was in the
top 10 of his class, a member
OF the varsity baseball and
wrestling teams and vice presi-
dent of the Falls Church High
Student Council.
He wanted to be a scientist
when he grew up.
A county policeman was an
swering all phone calls to the
home of the grief-stricken
Goldfein family today. The as
signment was made late yester-
day after the family began re-
ceiving coarse crank" calls
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