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On April 23, 1979, FBI spokesmen
announced their search for 34-year-old Lawrence Dalton, sought on
murder charges after a woman's corpse was unearthed near Kenosha,
Wisconsin, in front of a house which Dalton had occupied from
March 1977 through February 1978.
The victim was identified as Blanchie Penna,
23, missing from Racine, Wisconsin, and Dalton was also sought in
connection with the murder of 12-year-old Lisa Slusser, slain in
Waukegan, Illinois, during 1977. The fugitive had earlier been
charged with rape, deviate sexual assault and taking indecent
liberties with a child, following an incident in Brooklyn, where a
14-year-old girl accused Dalton of holding her hostage over a
period of four months.
Dalton's wife, Karen, and a female acquaintance
named Barbara Filipski were also arrested in that case, charged
with sexually abusing the girl.
On April 23, Dalton was arrested in Cleveland
and held for questioning on two counts of murder. (Further
inquiries concerned a "Jane Doe" victim found in Lake County,
Illinois, in the summer of 1978.)
Formally charged with the Penna murder on the
day of his arrest, Dalton waived extradition to Waukegan, where
authorities placed the number of his homicides at four and
counting.
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