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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, December 12,1972
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‘epidemic’
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all known hitchhikers, have
been strangled in the greater
strangling
in Boston
Boston area since July. Anoth
er, who also hitchhiked, is
missing. Officials fear there
will be more.
The number of girls thumbing
rides has grown tremendously
over the past few years in this
metropolitan area which an
nually experiences an influx of
approximately a quarter
million college students.
It was only a matter of time,
officials said, before some would
become victims of violence.
Five have met such a fate. What
happened to the sixth is as yet
unknown.
Victims
The victims include:
—Kathleen O’Gorman, 19, of
Brockton, who disappeared
July 3 on her way to work. Her
body was found in the Blue Hills
in Milton July 9.
—Debra Rae Stevens, 19, of
Lynn, whose body was found
Sept. 16 near her home. She was
a Boston University student.
—Kathleen Ann Randall, 19,
of Centerville, also a BU coed,
found dead Oct. 1 in Nashua,
N.H. She had disappeared Sept.
13.
—Ellen A. Reich, 19, an
Emerson College student. Her
body was found Nov. 13 in a
nailed closet in an abandoned
building. She disappeared five
days previously.
—Sandra J. Ehramjian, 21, of
Cambridge, whose body was
found in Brockton Nov. 28.
Missing since Nov. 29 was BU
coed Damaris Synge Gillispie,
22, of Bedford, N.Y., who
disappeared while hitchhiking
to work. Her family believes she
was kidnaped but police note
they have about 574 missing
persons reports in Boston so far
this year.
Solicit Rides
Young women, though con-
cerned and apparently more
cautious, continue to solicit
rides. For most it’s a cheap
form of transportation. It
makes all of them, a police
official said, vulnerable targets
of rape and murder. Many,
realizing this danger, have
taken to carrying chemical
repellants, such as Mace. Some
have quit and many have cut
back thumbing rides.
Is there, some ask, another
“Boston Strangler” on the
prowl? Is there one murderer or
several?
There is no general panic now
as existed in the 1960 s when,
during a 19-month period, 13
women were strangled. Most of
those stranglings were attribut
ed to the so-called “Boston
Strangler.” Albert DeSalvo,
believed by some to be the
strangler, is in prison on
convictions other than for
murder.
What exists now is a sense of
concern, apprehension,
indignation and acceptance.
The stranglings of the 1960 s
were spread throughout the
general populace while the
current rash of slayings has
been confined to women
hitchhikers.
Most police officials doubt all
five murders were committed
by one person, but several,
including Nashua, N.H., Police
Capt. Robert Barry, feel three
of them may be linked—the
murders of Miss Randall, Miss
Stevens and Miss O’Gorman.
He said there are similarities
and the “one murderer” theory
cannot be discounted in these
cases.
Another Epidemic
Boston homicide Detective
Lt. Jeremiah McCallum said “it
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another epidemic.”
McCallum’s boss, Lt. Edward
F. Sherry, who headed the
Boston Strangler investigations
in the ‘6os, compared the
present lack of clues and the
similar lack of clues in the
Boston Strangler murders, and
said it is “frightening.”
He believes someone has
information that could break
the case, “and I know it’s eating
at them, but they’re trying to
protect the guilty party and that
try of false loyalty may cause
the deaths of other young
college students.”
Why do these girls continue to
hitch rides with strangers?
Dr. John Burkett, dean of
students at Boston University,
said there is the feeling that:
“Well, these sort of things
happen but they never happen
to me.” Burkett also said he
feels the students believe “it is
their inalienable right to
hitchhike.”
Murry Rosenblith, editor of
the independent BU-student run
newspaper, “The News,” said
that since the murders have
increased, “women are becom
ing more reluctant to hitchhike
alone and after dark.” He said
they are pairing up with men or
other women.
“But,” Rosenblith said, “I
haven’t noticed anyone who
said they’re going to stop
hitchhiking because of it.”
Rosenblith said quite a few have
taken to “carrying Mace” or
other protective devices.
An ordinance last year
imposing a $2 fine on hitchhi
kers was enforced for a couple
of weeks but then virtually
ignored, Rosenblith said. The
Boston City Council is consider
ing imposing a $lO fine. “If they
pass that,” Rosenblith said,
“it’ll probably be enforced for
two weeks, if that, and then
stopped.”
Several women hitchhikers,
in interviews, indicated they
are now more reluctant to
hitchhike.
Even so, many continue to
chance rides with strangers.
McCallum said these girls
“figure the real damage will
never happen to them. It always
happens to someone else.”
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