4 Deaths in LA Area – Head in Sex Killing Found

by Los Angeles (UPI)

A human head, believed to be from a body mutilated by a sex maniac, was discovered in a paper products plant today. An employe said it rolled from a sack while he was stacking paper on a conveyor belt. Police said it appeared to be the head of a “young male adult” and they were “99 percent certain” it came’ from the dismembered body found last Sunday. Detectives from six law enforcement, agencies were meeting in nearby Seal Beach today to discuss the hunt for a maniac who kills and mutilates young men. At least four bodies have been found, including two. who have been chopped up. The most recent was a corpse hacked to pieces and distributed along the Terminal Island Freeway in Los Angeles County at Sunset Beach.

Four plastic bags were found along the freeway Sunday, containing a leg, two arms, and a torso. The genitals had been cut off. A leg was found Wednesday j in an identical green plastic bag, in a trash can behind a tavern in Seal Beach. The first body found was that of a Marine from Camp Pendleton, Edward Daniel Moore, 19, who was strangled. His nude body was discovered Dec. 26 near the junction of the San Diego and 605 freeways. Another body was found Feb. 6 near the Terminal Island Freeway, just south of the Pacific Coast Highway. The dismembered body of a man in his early 20s, killed by a blow on the head, was found in Huntington Beach April 14.