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Joseph A. Russo Oakland, Calif...
...grim combination of suspicion, fear and horror hangs over the trim, tree-shaded suburban townships of Oakland County, Mich., northwest of Detroit. For the seventh time in 14 months, a child has been abducted, then killed...
...Each body was found fully clothed; two were dead from having been smothered. The exception was Jill Robinson, killed by a shotgun blast that the police think accidentally occurred when the killer panicked. All the children, including Timothy King, were last seen within a few blocks of Oakland County's main north-south commercial street, Woodward Avenue...
Promising Lead. More than 200 detectives from 50 police departments are working with state police on the case. Tips from Oakland County citizens are pouring in at the rate of 300 a day. The most promising lead so far: a witness saw Timothy talking with a white male, 20 to 35 years old with shag-cut hair and bushy sideburns, just before his disappearance...
...music with something extra--they blew big band jazz with an insistent get-up-and-dance beat. The band's early audiences came for the jazz, not the dance beat. At first there were problems--in Denver those who came to listen asked for their money back. But in Oakland, California, in late summer, the right audience came. They wanted that beat. They got it and loved it and the band moved on to its big break, playing Hollywood's Palomar Ballroom in a series of concerts broadcast by radio across the country...