LA Area Killer Mutilates, Dismembers Victims’ Bodies

by Seal Beach (UPI)

A killer who mutilates young men and dismembered two of the four victims is at large in the beach area of Los Angeles and Orange counties investigators believe. The bodies of four young men have been found in beach towns since December. All were sexually attacked police said. The most recent was a corpse hacked to pieces and distributed along the Terminal Island Freeway in Los Angeles County and in 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 in au identical green plastic bag in a trash can behind a tavern. In Seal Beach, Police said it appeared to have come from the same body as the pieces found along Ihe freeway.

The head has not been found. The victim appeared to have been a man in his 20s who was stabbed to death according to the coroner’s office. The first body found was that of Edward D Moore 19 a Marine from Camp Pendleton who was strangled. He was discovered nude on Dec 26 near the: Junction of the Sain Diego and 603 Freeways. Another nude body was found Feb 6 near the Terminal Island Freeway. The victim who had been strangled was about 20 but has not been identified. The dismembered body of a man in his early 20’s killed by a blow on the head was found in Huntington Beach in April.