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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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Lucas hearing begins Witness puts blond man near murder site )..'{ 'fs-" te tified she saw a young, blond man near the home of Suzanne Camille Jacob on the day Jacobs and her son were slain, The witne , Rose Turner, was testifying yesterday before Munici- pal Judge Herbert Exarhos during a preliminary hearing for David Allen Luca , 29, who has wavy blond hair. Lucas la charged with murdering Jacobs, 31, and her son, Colin, 3, on May 4, 1979, in their Normal Heights home and real estate sales- woman Gayle Roberta Garcia, 29, whose body 'was found Dec. 8, 1981, In the back bedroom of a vacant Spring Valley home she had been showing to prospective tenants. Turner testified that she was driving with her daughter who lives In the neighborhood, when she noticed a man standing on the sidewalk In front of the Jacobs home next to a truck loaded with tree trimm- ings. She said she recalled little a!X>ut the events of six years ago, but under prodding by Deputy District Attorney Daniel Williams she said Plea&e Bee LUCA, B-8 By Mike Konon Tribune Staff Writer A San Diego woman ha

say the Rev. Marvin Threatt, a black Catholic deacon at Christ the King Catholic Church "We're trymg to take the same structure of the Ma and incorpo- rate black American expressions mto it," says Threatt, who orgar.izetl a three-day Afro-American Liturgy and Worship conference la t week at the Universit of San Diego. The co erence was sponsored by the San Diego Catholic Diocese, the USO program in graduate religious educahon and the National Office of Black Catholics in Wa hington, D.C. Threatt says he'd like to see black o· . a more expressive black poses of the black-style Mass is to lure more blacks into the church. "Ye·, there is a certain evangelical intent, in that we can, hopefully, bring other blacks into the Cathohc Church," Threatt says. "The 10 black Catholic bishops are authors of a pa toral letter that says black Catholics have come of age and that it's time for us t share our gift of blackness with the whole church and to let blacks see that they, too, if they wish to be Catholics, can worship in a way similar to the way they worship already," Threatt sa~ /

style of preaching and more inter- play between preacher and congre- gation. But Threatt says blacks don't want to keep this liturgical style to them- selves, and adds that evidence sug- gests that non-black Catholics would welcome such changes. "Most people seem to want to be more open," Threatt says. "They want a more active participation and

a greate expressiveness and sense of togethe ess. "A lot of times people go to church and they just sit there and everything is done for them from the altar or by the choir. Our idea is to bring about more active participation by every- body in the church. "It's not that some people like it and some don't. Most w

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*Lvcas Continued From 8-1 '7 S5 she saw "a white male, but I didn't see his face, just saw his back, blond hair, wearing blue overalls." Earlier, district attorney's office investigator Gary W. Gleason, a for- mer homicide investigator for the San Diego Police Department, testi- fied that be believed that Jacobs was first assaulted on her bed and then pushed back against a chest of drawers before her throat was slashed. "She fell forward and died on the floor at the foot of the bed," Gleason said . Lucas also faces trial Oct. 1 in Su- perior Court on charges of murder- ing Anne Catherine Swanke, 22, a Universit~ of San Diego honor stu- dent who isappeared in La Mesa on Nov. 20; Amber Fisher, 3, and her baby sitter, Rhonda Strang, 24, who were slain Oct. 23 in Strang's Lake- side home; and of kidnapping and at- tempting to murder Jody Santiago, 29, of Seattle, on June 9, 1984. _ ')-

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Jmy Convicts Man in Rape f DpYer Stranded on 1-5 B~ ~ ~EELEY, Times Staff Writer

for S\!ntencing. Hood, a resident of Southeast San Diego, told police that the worran consented to have sex with hlffi. The woman testified that she offer d no resistance to the rape, mmdful of the recent slaying of Ann Catherine Swanke, because she feared for her life. Hood's attorney, Lo an McKechnie, did not call any witnesses in his de- fense. The rape case received promi- nent attention in the media in part because 1t came about two months after the slaymg of Swanke, a University of San Diego honor ~~udem who was abducted after her car ran out of gas in La Mesa. The two crimes prompted prom- ises from San Diego police Chief Bill Kolender that officers would be more conscientious in assisting stranded motorists. It also helped buttress a stale Senate bill au- thored by Sen. William Craven CR-Oceanside), providing a $3 mil- lion state loan to San Diego County to pay for emergency call boxes on the county's freeways. Crave:i's bill, approved by the state Senate this week, still must pass the Assembly and be signed by Gov Deukmejian. According lo the spokesman, Hood could receive a maximum sentence of eight years on the rape charge, with three additional years because a kidnaping was involved m that offense. Five additional years could be added to his penalty becaus Hood has a prior convic- tion of assault with great bodily injury·!. . ~~---~--~-'

A Supertor Court j y on Fnday convicted Nathan Hood of kidnap- mg and raping a Spring Valley woman whose car broke down on Interstate 5 near downtown San Diego in January The kidnaping and rape occurred after the woman tried, and failed, for four hours to flag down passing police cars for assistance. Publicity surrounding what became known as the "freeway rape" case and a recent slaying helped prompt po- lice commitments to assist stranded motorists and legislation to provide more call boxes on San Diego County freeways. Accordmg to the victim's testi- mony, Hood, 31, claiming to be a mechanic, stopped and offered as- sistance. However, once the wom- an was in his van he took her to a secluded area of Olay Mesa and raped her. Hood, who threatened the '1:7- year-old woman with what police later ~termlned was a toy pistol,

then drove her back to her car, helped start the engine and drove off. The woman, a receptionist at a law firm, testified she entered Hood's van expecting to be driven to a ne2rby telephone. She said she entered the van reluctantly, after waiting for almost four hours for help after the car broke down at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 21 near the Pershing Drive exit on 1-5. The jury, composed of nine men and three women, deliberated for one day before reaching its verdict. Hood was found not guilty of kidnapmg with intent to commit robbery, a crime that carries a possible life sentence in prison, and attempted robbery. A spokesman for the district attorney's office said Deputy Dist. Atty. Harry Elias likely would request the maximum 16-year pris- on term when Hood appears before Judge J. Perry Langford A':1. 16 Please see FREEWAY, 'J~ge 3

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