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...murky grayish color. The forest near it has long served as a dumping ground for old auto parts, battered furniture, cans and bottles. On March 31 a hiker hunting for mushrooms stumbled upon a human skull. During the next two days police investigators found the rest of that skeleton, along with the remains of three other women. The grisly discoveries brought to 20 the number of women from the Seattle area presumed to be victims of a mysterious demon dubbed the Green River Killer...
...Sandra Gabbert was typical of the Green River Killer's victims. Like eleven others, Sandra was a prostitute. She worked an area of the Pacific Highway South called Sea-Tac Strip where prostitutes did a brisk business. Three months after she began her career, Sandra disappeared. Her skeleton was one of those discovered last week. Nine of the killer's 20 suspected victims since the summer of 1982 have been found in or near the Green River...
Most "overnight stars" have a few skeletons in their closets: low-budget movies made when they were struggling for attention, then exhumed by some fringe distributor trying to cash in on a brand name. Mike's Murder, which stars Debra Winger as a bank teller lured into the paranoia of the cocaine underworld, is a skeleton in a super-closet: the picture was made in 1982 between Winger's two big hits, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, and was perpetrated by James Bridges, the writer-director whose previous films include The China Syndrome...
Only three months ago, the immense construction site at Indiana's Marble Hill nuclear power station alongside the Ohio River bustled with 8,000 workers. Now the cranes and earth movers at the plant stand idle, and a shroud of snow covers the project's jagged skeleton. Last week Public Service Co. of Indiana, Marble Hill's principal builder, announced that it would abandon the half-finished plant altogether. Marble Hill has already eaten up some $2.5 billion, making it the most expensive nuclear power project ever to be dropped. The decision brings the total number...
Michael has plenty of company. Strung out over a 240-mile stretch of the upper Mississippi, embedded in the ice like pieces of an unfinished mosaic, are 49 towboats pushing more than 600 barges with cargoes worth an estimated $150 million. Each boat carries a skeleton crew that is responsible for upkeep and for starting the engines once a day to prevent ice buildups on the propeller and the hull. "We're just baby sitting a boat," says Leo Hallinan, 40, a deckhand aboard the Ann Blessey. "If the TV ever went out, they'd have to carry...