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...except for a few momentary tears-unsentimental. She accounted in cool syllables for each of the wood blocks, labeled with her former roommates' names, that Martin removed from a scale model of the five-room apartment where the girls were killed. As Martin lifted the block labeled Merlita Gargullo (another Filipina who had moved into the apartment two months before the killings), she offered the recollection that the murderer had asked Merlita: "Do you know karate...
...sweetest girl you'd ever want to know." When she applied for training she wrote: "I have always wanted to be a nurse. I never liked to see people suffer." There were, finally, three Philippine exchange student nurses who had moved in only two months earlier - Merlita Gargullo, 22, who had brought with her from Manila a pair of native clacking poles with which she performed a "bamboo dance" at parties; Valentina Pasion, 23, who wrote home that she wished she could stay in America forever; and Corazon Amurao, 22. Like her two paisanas, Corazon (whose nickname was "Zony...
...heart. Next to her were Pat Matusek, strangled with wrists bound; and Pam Wilkening, also bound by the wrists, who had been stabbed in the heart. In the adjoining front bedroom sprawled Nina Schmale, bound at the wrists, gagged, knifed four times in the neck and strangled; Merlita Gargullo, wrists and ankles bound, dead of a 6-in.-deep thrust in the side of her neck, which pierced the trachea; and Valentina Pasion, wrists bound, knifed four times, strangled. In all, the killer inflicted 24 stab wounds. An initial examination revealed no evidence that any of the victims had been...
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