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...Kistner had given up hope of ever finding his great-aunt's killer. The retired police sergeant was just a rookie at the Long Beach Police Department in California when Maybelle Hudson, 80, was beaten, raped and strangled in her Inglewood garage after returning home from choir practice one day in April 1976. The last time Kistner called detectives at the Inglewood Police Department, in 2006, he was told that given the amount of time that had passed since the twice-widowed woman was murdered, the perpetrator was likely deceased or in prison...
...They had eliminated all of their suspects, cleared all of those suspects, so at that time, it was the investigators' belief that the guy was either dead or in prison. I thought that was the end of it," says Kistner, "until Inglewood called the other day and said we've got some real good news for you." (See the top 25 crimes of the century...
...suspect, John Floyd Thomas Jr., had been arrested in late March and charged on April 2 with the rape and murders of two elderly women in the 1970s. According to police, DNA evidence also apparently tied Thomas to the crimes against Kistner's great-aunt. A grimmer scenario loomed, however: investigators now believe that Thomas was behind many more sexually-motivated murders and may turn out to be the most prolific serial killer in Los Angeles history...
...Kistner, who plans on attending Thomas' upcoming trials, the investigation's findings may finally bring some closure to the tragedy of his great-aunt's death. "Especially in my line of business," says the ex-cop, "we like closure; we like happy endings, I guess, if there can be a happy ending to this. You're always looking for the bad guy, especially someone who could do something to an old lady like that." He adds, "I plan on attending the trials when they come up for the personal satisfaction of actually physically seeing him in custody and knowing that...
...changes imperceptibly if at all during the first few years on estrogen medication, it may rise sharply after ten years and it almost doubles after 15 years. But duration of treatment is not the only factor. The doses taken and the dosage schedule are also important. Harvard Gynecologist Robert Kistner reviewed the latest report judiciously. "Estrogen must be used selectively in postmenopausal women," he said. "Only patients with definite symptoms of estrogen deficiency should be given the medication, and then only in the lowest possible doses. The Louisville report does not indicate a cause-and-effect relationship. More definitive studies...