Evening star., 1962-08-21
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Organized Hunt Through Area Ends;
Police, FBI Check Personal Records
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hospital at the Marine Corps
air base at Cherry Point, N. C.
Spokesman said the blood
stains found near the girls
homes in the Van Dorm Apart
mentS have not yet been linked
with either child,
Investigators said they also
had not been able to make any
significant deduction from the
finding of Rita's purse in front
bf her home, since children
frequently leave their things
lying around.
There was a report that a
moving van had been parked
in fancy avenue Sunday and
investigators are running down
the possibility the children may
have crept into such a van to
hide and been driven away
when the doors were shut. This
phase Of the investigation GEN.
Tered on a check of all moving
companies to learn if any of
lhem had trucks in the area
on the day the girls vanished.
Both Alexandria police and
lhe FBI centered the inquiry
bn checks of all known sex de-
viateS in Northern Virginia.
Washington and nearby Mary
land.
Police Offer Theory
Police Chief Russell Halves
Of Alexandria, after a meeting
with his detectives and FBI
men late yesterday, declared:
we assume that the girls
we're induced to get into a car
by a sex maniac. They are prob
bbly either dead or in his cap
klvity. We might as we'll face
that unless there are some very
Unusual circumstances govern
ing this case.
Based on trends, the police
thought would be that there
is only one man who has a
motive to do something like
this and that is a sex maniac"
Maj. Hawes said the children
had never wandered away from
home before. They just dis
appeared into thin air." he de-
clared.
1T is not the practice of
the average deviate of that sort
TO hold kids captive" Mai.
Halves told reporters. That is
the cold, hard fact of exper-
lenCe."
After the FBI entered the
case and sent a squad of men
to the scene late yesterday. in
vestigators began an exhaustive
check of the records of men
known to be molesters of
children. They also were check
ing the description the neigh
borS child gave of the man who
exposed himself in the red car
on August 6.
The child told her father the
man was elderly" between 50
and rs. that he was short and
fat, that he had dark and gray
ing hair with a bald spot on
top and that he wore a dark
suit.
DeviateS Questioned
Alexandra police are queS-
tioning known sex deviates at
their homes. 1t. Francis john
son said none have been
brought to Alexandria police
headquarters but a number
have been interrogated about
their whereabouts on Sunday.
A number of reports of in
cidentS involving possible de-
viateS have been coming in
since the girls disappearance
shocked area residents, 1t.
Johnson said. In addition to
the August 6 report about the
man in the red car, a doctor
called police last night to re-
port that five children, includ-
ing his two young daughters.
had indecent overtureS made
to them at swimming pool
near the area Sunday. The doc
tor said the children. who range
in age from 7 to IL, told him
the man stood outside the fence
at the pool and offered them
money to perform indecent acts.
They described the man as
white, As. five feet eight inches
tall about ITO pounds. with
short broWn-gray hair and said
he was wearing tan trousers
and a white T-shirU with an
eagle patch on it.
Another caller reported she
had seen a man looking in win
dows in the 4400 block of Raj
eigh avenue. near the Brook
vile area, twice Friday night.
The woman caller said the
man was driving a white auto
mobile and appeared to be
taking notes as he looked in
the windows. She described
him as resembling the man
who was seen in the red car
on August 6.
Nothing Left to Search"
The organized search for the
children. in which up to 600
policemen, firemen, radio anna
teurs, neighbors, Marines and
soldiers were involved, was
called off about $50 pm.
1t. L. C. Saunders of the
Alexandria police said, There
is nothing more left to search"
For more than "a hours, the
searchers covered an area of
nearly four square miles
around Brookville, checking
every inch of underbrush and
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