Posted on 04/24/2005 5:13:35 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Black fingerprint powder dusts nearly every surface in Margie Gafford's tiny wood-frame bungalow. In the bedroom, a splotch of blood stains the carpet where the body of the 86-year-old widow was found crumpled in the closet beneath her neatly hanging clothes.
Gafford was the second of three elderly women savagely beaten to death in their homes here in the space of four days last week, sending this normally sleepy refinery town into a near-panic. The bodies of at least two of the victims were found in their closets.
A fourth woman managed to fight off her attacker.
Police on Friday apprehended a suspect, 40-year-old Gary Sinegal, but the arrest only partially settled nerves.
"This has just about done me in," said Eloise Townsend, 79, who lives two doors down from Gafford's house. "It's horrible. I can't believe what has happened."
Port Arthur, 90 miles east of Houston, is probably best known as the hometown of Janis Joplin. It's a laid-back, industrial city of about 58,000 where doors are usually unlocked during the day, said resident Joyce Campbell. "That will change now," Campbell said, standing behind her front door screen. "It will never be the same. I'm not sure I'll ever feel completely safe here again."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/11464927.htm
Go here to read Sinegal past. He has always been a rat!Hammer time!
Picture of Sinegal?
haha!Feed it to her Viking Kitty, I bet. :)
Don't know what an Australian Thylacoleo carnifex is?
Click on the pic to see the FR thread. :)
hehe! Thanks. :)
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