Word: corazon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his systematic savagery, the slayer either miscounted or forgot the one victim-possibly because he had learned that eight girls lived in the house and did not realize that a ninth, Mary Ann Jordan, was spending the night. "While he was out of the room on one trip," Corazon recounted, "I rolled under the bunk bed clear against the wall. I stayed under the bed for hours and hours." Throughout the terror-filled night she lay frozen with fear, not knowing whether the murderer was still in the house or gone. At 5 a.m., an alarm clock went...
...Amurao was sleeping, he knocked on her door. Politely, she opened it. "A man was standing there," she recalled. "The first thing I noticed about him was the strong odor of alcohol." He had a small black pistol in one hand, a butcher knife in the other. Then, continued Corazon, "he made me go down the hall to a middle bedroom. He stopped at this bedroom and awakened three girls there. He made the four of us go into the back bedroom, where two other girls were sleeping. He said he wouldn't hurt us, he just wanted money...
...much," said Miss Amurao. "He made them lie on the floor with the rest of us." Before binding and gagging each girl, the tormenter asked where she kept her money-but took pains to put his prisoners at ease. "He sat on the floor with them," said Corazon. "He indicated he was in need of money. They gave him money and thought that would satisfy him. They obviously had no idea what was in his mind...
...Amurao related, "he took one of the girls out of the room. After a few minutes he came back alone and took another of the girls. He kept this up." One by one, the nurses went like lambs to the slaughter. None uttered more than "a little scream," said Corazon. The windows were open, but a second group of nurses who lived next door was on vacation; the victims' muffled cries were not loud enough to awaken other neighbors...
...shirt, size 34-38, found on the floor of the living room outside the kitchen. Another was a set of "excellent" fingerprints revealed on a vanity mirror, a purse, a water glass, a door and a plate. The third, and not the least important, was Corazon's description of the killer: a white man, approximately 25 years old, 6 ft. tall, weighing 170 Ibs., with crew-cut brownish hair...