Homosexual Pair Seemed Ordinary

by Redondo Beach (AP)

Patrick Kearney and David Hill, homosexual lovers charged in two dismemberment murders and suspected of at least 28 killings, seemed quite ordinary to neighbors, except for Kearney’s fascination with knives. He liked to come in and look at the butcher knives, grocery store owner Jerry Stevens said Tuesday. He’d ask me to take one down and he’d look at it and handle it and ask me about the steel Then he’d put it back. But it wouldn’t be a week before he was back looking at them again. Stevens described Kearney as a loner, with an eerie sense of quiet about him.

Others in the peaceful residential area where the two men lived said there was no hint of their involvement in the multiple slayings for which they are being questioned. Kearney’s conservative demeanor was a sharp contrast to his more flamboyant roommate, according to liquor store clerk George Julsonnet. He (Hill) would come in one day as a redhead, one day as a blonde and another time he’d have black hair, Julsonnet said. But they weren’t troublemakers they kept to themselves. Kearney and Hill were visited’ frequently by young men, Julsonnet recalled, until their disappearance about six weeks ago.