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as with the legal obliga- project is off and running, that would ultimately 4 tions." even if the City Council place residents Sd "* Council and the Long That isn't always easy. adopts it into ordinance cate businesses ye u Beach Redevelopment Ag- The California Redevelop- after Tuesday's public consideration in the encyis scheduled for 2 ment Law is 56 pages long hearing. posed . downt (Continued from Page A-l) p.m. Tuesday in the City and reads like a testimoniThere has to be a first redevelopment area. Council Chambers, 205 W. al to the legislative art of reading, a second reading include: ,*; along the Terminal Island Freeway, near where the Broadway. making things impossible and a 60-day waiting peri-The Ernest W. body of the second victim was found. Mrs. Russell is sorry to understand. od. Also, the proposed proposal to construct Two arms, from wrist to shoulder, were found in she won't be able to atIt is a valuable tool, redevelopment plan must six-block regional one bag. The right leg, from hip to toe, was found in tend. Despite her own however, and probably the receive approval from the ping mall. another, and the torso was found in a third housing concern, ste's only means by which Long Coastal Conservation Three days later, the left leg was found in a trash -The $14.4-million certainly in favor of down- Beach's long dreamed-of Commission. bin behind a gay bar in Sunset Beach. Transportation town revitalization and downtown revitalization Then comes the tax downtown The next day, the victim's head was found by a -" could only say, "It's about could ever be accomplish- increment financing: big Center. ; startled Gardena paper-company employe sorting trash time." ed. words for bonds the redeCoroner s deputies' findings indicated that the patThe J150-miliion Like so many others, What's more, despite velopment agency must housing complex in the tern still held. The youth, about 20, had been tortured she's weary of the old all the labored legalese, sell to private or public Nu-Pike .. las eyelids removed, and he had died by strangulation ' afea for which buildings and narrow the law provides generous groups to get enough capi- the principals DET. SGT. J.J. HURLBIRT Again, the youth was identified by Long Beach gays of Dawson, alleys, the porno movies relocation benefits for tal to acquire the land and Peck and- KillingswortB In Charge of Investigation as a homosexual who frequented gay bars. But, again and "for lease" signs, the those who live in or do clear it. no one knew his name. ' have a 180-day negotiating business in the affected In addition to all that, agreement with the city,' ^ . . Il was three months later, July 30, 1973, that the church parking lot, was found abandoned in Belmont change in character of the area. population and the resultdevelopers and planner body of 20-year-old Ronnie Wiebe was found in the ice Shore. ing deterioration and In the case of Mrs. teams for specific projects plant off the Seventh Street exit from the 605 FreewayThe last victim, as far as police agencies are decay. Russell, for instance, it must clear a number of DOG TRAINING: tne place where police had found the first victim concerned, was John Leras, whose body was found in But she wonders would be the obligation of hurdles, including the CLASSES Separated from his wife, Wiebe was last seen alive the surf at Sunset Beach on Jan. 3,1975. where she'll find housing the redevelopment agency planning commission, the when he left the Sportsman Bar in Los Alamitos at ! He had been tied, abused and suffocated in the outside E. WILLOW the area at a price to help her find adequate City Council and the coast- 9994244)937 a.m., en route to the parking lot. He never made it to his sand. His body had been carried into the surf about a she can afford. Concerned, C3r. housing. Repeat: adenil Dog Training al commission. mile from where it washed ashore. Clou For she showed the letter to quate. Relocation housing, All major contracts _ Police maintain he had been strangled during TounatMrs H4 The youth had disappeared the evening before his her neighbor across the according to the redevel- have to be tied up (or, at MAYFAIR PARK I some sort of masochistic-type treatment," then re- body was found. He had been last seen en route to a LAKEWOOO hall, who hadn't received opment act, must be de- least, guaranteed by the June dressed and dumped into the ice plant. 14 -2 P.M. 'I roller skating rink in Long Beach. one. 11 was five mon cent, safe and sanitary Ph. 866-4776 developer) before the rede.... , ths between the time police found The Long Beach connection and the lies to the city's "This must mean we'll and meet certain occupan- velopment agency's green Wiebe s body and the day hikers in the San Bernardino gay community, Hurlbirt maintains, don't necessarily have to move in 60 days," cy standards. foothills found the body of 23-year-old Vincente Mestas mean the killer lives in the city or is homosexual. light goes on for land JOE DE BECK blinked in dismay. "I'd INCTIUCTOV If comparableand acquisition. Dec. 29 1973. Mestas, a Long Beach State University "We're not necessarily saying he's homosexual but he better look for another 213/633-330 adequatehousing cannot gay student, had been brutally tortured before being he certainly preys on homosexuals and engages in place to live!" Only three projects be found at the same price strangled. Cuts and burns covered his body His intes- homosexual activities with his victims. "And," he adds, His interpretation was the displaced person is tines had been ruptured. Then he was killed and mutilat- "homosexuals that frequent this area are from all over! wrong, of course. paying, those who are ed. It's not uncommon to find homosexuals that live in San 60-day reference eligible may receive a Another five months, until June 2, 1974, passed Francisco spending considerable time here in our gay wasThe meant only for those rental subsidy of up to $83 before the next victim's body was found near a desert bars. Our local establishments advertise in their persons interested in a month, or $1,000 a year, road near the Salton Sea. magazines...they have their gay balls here...more and becoming participant for four years. Moving exThe victim, 20-year-old Malcom Little, was traced more homosexuals are gathering here. They become owners or business OR penses also are paid by to Long Beach. targets for thugs...we're bound to have more violence." in the project area.tenants TIJUANA SHOPPING They the agency. A truck driver from Selma, Ala., Little was visiting have 60 days to respond * DELUXE BUSES DIRECT " Similar benefits are his brother in Long Beach when he decided, on May 27 MURDERS of this typepickups in bars or involv- after publication of "the available to qualifying disTO TIJUANA, MEXICO to hitchhike home. His brother dropped him off near the ing hitchhikers-are among the hardest to solve, he ordinance of the City placed homeowners who ban Diego and Garden Grove freeways. says. * EVERY SATURDAY - 9:15 a.m. Council adopting the pro- wish to purchase and occ.-.": Abused and mutilated, Little's nude body was "We can't find anyone who can put the victim and *ONLY $17.00 ROUND TRIPupy other homes. posed Redevelopment found, in a grotesque pose, a week after he had been his killer together. However, we feel there must have INCLUDES CLUB HOUSE ADMISSION Plan," which hasn't even It should be pointed "Jailed, coroner's deputies said. been cases of someone being picked up by this guy who happened yet. out, however, that Long The next month, on July 22, 1974, another naked got away and he hasn't come forward." CALL-437-3551 There's no reason, at Beach still has many hurbody was found dumped down a hillside in South LaguCONSOLIDATED BUS DEPOT In an attempt to find that person. Hurlbirt says this point, for anyone to dles to clear before the 202 E. OCEAN LONG BEAC H officers have been going to gay bars, gay churches and move because of the pro- downtown revitalization -Twenty-year-old Roger Dickerson told his Marine colleges to warn prospective victims by passing on posed redevelopment buddies in a San Clemenle bar that he found someone information for their protection and to seek information project. Not now. Not in 60 who would give him a ride to Los Angeles. which may help police find the killer. days. For some, maybe He was found dead the next morning, nude, mutilat"We've already questioned and eliminated approxi- never. ed and strangled. His connection to Long Beach would mately 200 suspects in these cases," Sgt. Hurlbirt says Harry Ladas, field not be revealed by police. SALE ENDS TUESDAY, JUNE 10TH So we're ready to follow any kind of clue. We'd like to The next victim, 25-year-old Thomas Lee, however catch him, but the next best thing to do is stop him services director for the HURRY, SOME QUANTITIES LIMITED! was found in a Long Beach oilfield the next month on Maybe the intensive investigation by so many agencies redevelopment agency, admits the notice, sent to Aug. 3,1974. has done it." 510 property owners and But homosexual killings, the detective claims are more than 2,000 residents A SAN PEDRO waiter, Lee's travels before his the increase, especially in California where the laws in the downtown area, death were traced through several Long Beach gay on have been relaxed. may have been somewhat bars When his travels ended, he was nude, mutilated "By making homosexual laws more permissive confusing and too harsh in and had been strangled. types of deaths like this will become even more com- its wording. Nineteen-year-old James Reeves was a known mon, he says. "And what's becoming more common The notice was adhomosexual. He was last seen leaving a gay church in too, are attacks on youngsters. dressed specifically to Costa Mesa where he had Thanksgiving dinner and ';Just this year, a 12-year-old boy was pulled off his property owners, he said, helped with the dishes. piKe in Belmont Shore and another was attacked walkmandated by law. The next day his body, covered only by a blood- ing on east Broadway. But can you imagine the ones as stained T-Shirt, was found at the end of a remote road in that are not reported because the families don't want to "But, certainly," he added, "we should be as Irvine. He had been abused. Cause of death: suffocation put the kid through any more... concerned with the human Reeves' car, which was last seen parked in the "Any boy or girl hitchhiking today is a fool." aspects of redevelopment

Police fear more slayings

Renewal plan still distant

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