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

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

UL 19 1985 Lucas ordered to stand trial in 3 more deaths Ft 5"5°"" By Roy Schneider Tribune StJff Writer David Allen Lucas - the Casa de Oro carpet cleaner already facing trial on thre murder charges - will stand trial on three additional chargei; of murder involving the throat-slashing deaths of two women and a 3-year-old boy. Following a 12-day preliminary hearing, Municipal Court Judge Her- bert 1.!:xarhos yesterday ordered Luca. to stand trial for the murders of r al estate al woman Gayle Roberta Garcia, 29, slain Dec. 8, 1981, m the back bedroom of a Spring Val- ley h~me she was showJOg to pro- spective renter . ani:I Suzanne Cam- il!e Jacob . 31, and her son. Colin, killed on May 4 1979 in their Normal Heights home. ' Lucas will continue to be held without bail in county jail. His ar- raignment in Superior Court was scheduled for Aug. 1. Lucas, 30, already faces an Oct. 1 trial on charges of murdering Amber Fisher, 3, and her baby- itter, Rhon- da Strang, 24, slain Oct. 23 in Strang's Lakeside home; Anne Catherine Swanke, 22, a Univel'.$ity of ~n Diego ~onor student who disap- peared JO La Mesa ov. 20; and kid- napping and attempting to murder Jody Santiago, 29, a Seattle woman ~bducted June 9, 1984, from the park- ing lot of the parking lot of an El Cajon apartment complex. All the victims had their throats slashed, some so severely they were nearly decapitated. Prosecutors called that method of attack "virtually a signature of this defendant." Noting the similarities in the cases Please see LUCAS, .5

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Garcia's throat. Introduction of the alibi was a gamble by defense attorney William Saunders, who had hoped the testi- mony would prompt Exarbos to dismiss the Garcia murder charge. Massingale, of Harlan, Ky., ac- knowledged in his testimony that he once confessed to killing the Jacobses, but he said the confession was a ,fabrication produced under pressure from detectives who threat- ened him with the death penalty. And Santiago, in an emotional day on the witness stand, identified Lucas as the assailant who kidnapped her, drove her to a borne, choked her into unconsiousness, then slit her throat and ;ibandoned her on the shoulder of an East County road. Courtroom exchanges between Santiago and defense attorney Saun- ders became so heated at times the judge called several recesses to let emotions cool. Saunders asked that Santiago's tes- timony be stricken, but the judge said the similarities in the attack on her and those on the other victims of the cases before him made her testi• mony appropriate.

the depth and locations of the slashes and evidence that all the adult victims had likely been choked into unconsciouness prior to being cut - Exarhos said a distinctive pat- tern to the assaults emerges and there was "sufficient reason to be- lieve" that Lucas was the attacker. "As we take each step, it creates a higher degree of distinctiveness," he said. The hearing was attended daily by friends and relatives of the victims and defendant and involved the testi• mony of 57 witnesses (23 for the pros- ecution and 34 for the defense) and the introduction of 182 pieces of evi- dence (78 by prosecutors and 104 by the defense). The most dramatic testimony was given by Santiago, who identified Lucas in court as her attacker, and by Johnny Massingale, a Kentucky drifter who once confessed to the Jacobs killings, but has since been deared. The surprise witness in the case was Lucas' 12-year-old niece, Tricia Graves, who testified that Lucas was at her birthday party in Santee at the time authorities charge he slashed

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Tribune photos by Bruce K. Huff MASTERS OF EMBROIDERY MEET IN SEMINAR HERE Pat Merrell, right, displays sewing-machine artistry "!!!,l!J!Jroiderers ask: Sew what's new?

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have come _from cities across the nation to e_ngage m_ stitch ~agic during a weeklong, "de- s1g~ sha_rmg semmar," beginning today at the Un1vers1ty of San Die&o. They have brought their sewing machines with them, along with artist's palettes of ~pooled threads - reds, greens, blues and hues 1~countless shades and thicknesses and of var- ymg gloss. "The most advanced sewing machine is ca- pable of program-stitching embroidered ani-

Tribune Staff Writer F ~OM THE WIZARDRY of their sew- mg ~achines comes forth such artistic c~eations as three-dimensional cloth butterflies, l)?tted fabric plants, and embroi- dered portraits resembling =,t<>rcolor paint- mgs. More than 100 master embroiderers all members of the National Machine Embroi- dery .Instru_ctors Association, tum out such creations with the ease of a Chagall, and they

ma~, an~ flower designs at the push of a but- ton, sa1_d Pat Merr~IJ, president of Sew-Art Internati~nal of Bountiful, Utah, the seminar sponsor. But that's not our way." Working freestyle, the seminar embroider- ers have. rem~ved needle and thread guides from ~heir stripped-down machines to craft embroidered designs of beauty and distinction th!ough ~be medium of zigzag and straight stitch art1Stry. Please see SEW~ -2

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All are certified teachers, needle- and-thre~d Rembrandts who conduct classes JO machine embroidery in high schools and colleges at sewin ma~hine retail stores, or i~ their ow~ sewm~ and fabric shops. . The1_r work, including wall hang- mgs, p1l_lows, book cover.o, and fabric decoratI~ns that appear to be stained glass, will be exhibited at no charge to the publfc from 7:30 p.m to 9 p.m. Th_ursd~y, m the auditorium of the un,~vers1ty s DeSales Bu·lding. A_lot ~f people think the sewin machme IS a lost art in the home Merrell said. "It's true that we are in an age where many working women ~o not h_ave the time or the inclina- tion to sit down at a sewing machine and construct clothes for the family as she once did. . "But the sewing machine is regain- mg some of its lost popularity be- cause _mo~ women, and some men are usmg it as a creative outlet in th~ home ~fter a day's work in high- stress Jobs,_ just as some people tend to flowers m the garden or paint oi¥ to relax." /_

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Mission Valley, CA (San Diego Co) San Diego Weekly News (Cir. 2XM 20,000) U 24 1985 .Jllt~,, P. C. 8 bt. t 888

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abor relations session planne9- Executives, labor/J~~ and thos~ who work to bnnl"fhem togeth- er will speak on union-man~1ement cooperation m the San Diego area at a conference next week. The conference will take place Aug. 1 at the IJmvecsitf nt.san Diego Law School. It is being ponsored by the Federal Mediation and Concilia- tion Service, the Department of Labor, the Industrial Relations Re- Search Association and the universi- ty -~--~ 1/

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annual su er,_ holds Its seventh mmer sesswn. Classes taught by USO faculty and other P or f re_e from ~A S ro ess1onals in the com munuy. range Holocau "urv1~or_s _Look Back at the I st to Trivial Pursuit" to tax aw and health · 260-4600 seminars. ln[orm_.ij.tion· _ , ext. 4296. ~t/f~ . . • C f