i1 '» V' '• LOCAL BUSINESS Fly-in offers Molitor's Writing the Couple plans fun and road to book on Culver's fellowship Cooperstown healing ways franchise PAGE 3A THSECTIONEB HAWKSECTION EYE SLTJION D 168th year — No. 16 BURLINGTON, IOWA SUNDAY JULY 25,2004 $1.50 Spotlight Revisiting the past Vote gap eyed Bush holds slight lead as Kerry seeks to round up Gearing up electoral votes. ByRONFOURNIER for the fair The Associated Press Area youth, along with adult BOSTON — John Kerry nar- volunteers, are preparing for the rowly trails President Bush in Des Moines County Fair, which is the battle for the 270 electoral set to start Wednesday. votes needed to win the White Pag«3A House, as he makes his case at the Democratic National Con- vention this week to topple Top stories the Republican incumbent. Scott Morgan/The Hawfe Eye Tall hurdles Kerry Iowa child support remain in his Des Moines County Sherrif Mike Johnstons, front, Investigator Brett Grimshaw and Investigator Mark Mclntyre look at the area path, including pays collections up where the body of Mary Bernice Lange was found beside a one-lane bridge on Agency Road w e s t of the Iowa Army Ammunition Electoral Col- homage Fueled by a rise in the number of Plant in rural Des Moines County In 1970. lege math that child support cases and innovative col- favors Bush. to Iowa lection techniques, I o w a c h i l d s u p p o r t "It's a tough, Sec page collections hit a record $ 3 0 2 . 7 million tough map. I during fiscal y e a r 2004. Decades-old murder think it's going 4A Page2A to be a close CASES cases remain open race," said De- I Online mocratic strate- media Turmoil has A r a f a t gist Tad Devine, for local investigators who helped plot scale reshuffling posts UNSOLVED Al Gore's state- back By DOROTHY de SOUZA QUEUES by-state strat- A week of turmoil in the West Bank Unsolved murders Christmas 1970. egy in 2000 and See page. and Gaza Strip has had Yasser A r a f a t [email protected] Clues were gathered, plays the same reshuffling top posts and promising to racking a Southeast Iowa has its own unsolved mur- dozens of interviews were role for Kerry. 10A cede some authority—a key U.S. and decades-old , decs. The most notorious reads like a bad conducted, thousands of "But looking Israeli condition for a return t o Mideast homicide case I move script: a real-estate agent was found hours were spent trying to back four years, we're much peace talks. doesn't happen stabbed to death in 1969 in the closet of a find the women's killers. No stronger now. I think we're going Page 9A like it does on ! Burlington home. A year later, a local court one was charged in either into this convention in great televisionC. There, a dedi- f clerk left a party and was found two d a y s later crime. shape," he said. cated — and good-looking — floating in a creek near Danville. While authori- "We'd like to solve them With three months remaining team of highly trained homi- ties were stringing together clues from those discon- all. The reality is they don't in a volatile campaign , Kerry has Scoreboard cide detectives works full certing cases, Des Moines County's sheriff's daughter all get solved," said Lt. Dar- 14 states and the District of Co- time with an always avail- and son-in-law were found dead in a Missouri field. They ren Grimshaw, head of the lumbia in his column f o r 193 elec- are some of the area's unsolved homicides Dorothy de police department's Crimi- toral votes. Bush has 25 states for Cedar Rapids 3 able high-tech lab to re-open nal Investigation Unit. "One Burlington 2 cold case files and crack SouzaGuedes reopens. 217 votes, according to an Associ- them before the closing cred- unsolved homicide in ated Press analysis of state polls Burlington in 40 years is not as well as interviews with strate- In Sports its roll. partment has one unsolved older woman had been mar- In real life, there are few homicide; the Des Moines ried 29 years and had two too bad of a track record." gists across the c o u n t r y. dedicated "cold case" teams, County Sheriff's Office has grandchildren. The other Still, it bothers investiga- Both candidates are short of but detectives busy investi- two. was on the verge of a divorce, tors to have unsolved cases the magic 270 electoral votes. Weather gating current crimes might The county's most com- her husband fighting her for on their books. Some cases The margin of victory will come sneak a few hours — if pelling unsolved murders oc- custody of their three chil- just get under their skin. from: they're lucky, a few days — curred within months of one dren. One woman lived in Dorothy Miller • Toss-ups — Bush and away from their busy sched- another more than 30 years Burlington, the other in ru- Kerry are running even in 11 ules to dust off an old box ago. ral West Burlington. Say "unsolved murder" to states with a combined 128 elec- and pull out files from long- They remain unsolved de- Dorothy Miller was found any longtime Burlington res- toral votes. Florida, Ohio, Iowa, unsolved cases. spite intensive investiga- stabbed to death in the closet ident, and they'll probably Nevada, New Hampshire, New Maybe another set of eyes tions at the time of the of a vacant home in a nice start talking about a real es- Mexico, Wisconsin, Michigan and Intervals of clouds and sunshine. scanning a suspect's inter- crimes and many return Burlington neighborhood tate agent who was found West Virginia are the toughest view transcript or exploring trips to reopen those thick during the summer of 1969; stabbed to death in a closet. battlegrounds. Two other toss- physical evidence with mod- files. Mary Lange was discovered On Tuesday morning Aug. ups, Pennsylvania and Oregon, High 75 Low 56 19,1969, Dorothy Miller, 48, could soon move to Kerry's col- Details, 10B ern high-tech forensic tech- Both involved working in rural Danville, in a shal- niques will piece together mothers at a time when low creek under a bridge on a was found stabbed 22 times umn. enough clues to nail a killer. women were just beginning local lovers lane, hit on the in an upstairs bedroom • Lean Kerry—Maine, Min- Maybe. to move from the more tradi- head, then dragged into the closet of 118 Grand St., nesota and Washington (a com- Tomorrow The Burlington Police De- tional role of housewife. The water to drown just before See Unsolved page 6A See Gap page 7A School board seats across south- east Iowa are opening up for the Sept. 14 election, and nominating petitions are now available for Allawi urges Egypt to stand fast would-be candidates. Intelligence chief In News Diplomat's kidnapping prompts request from Inside opinions mixed Iraqi prime minister. Sept. 11 commission's stances." ByRAVINESSMAN 274 pages, 19 sections The proposal for a single, Tne Associated Press proposal for new cabinet stronger intelligence chief is not City & Region Happenings 7E post has pros and cons. new: A presidential advisory BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi in- Classifieds Horoscopes 7D board and an earlier congres- terim Prime Minister lyad A l l a w i Corrections Iowa & Illinois 2A By KATHEMNE PFLEQEH SHMOER sional inquiry into the Sept. 11 urged Egypt on Saturday to Crossword Lotteries 3A stand fast in the face of the kid- pearAbby Nations, World 5A The Associated Press attacks also floated the idea. A n d Deaths Opinion 6A two California Democrats in Con- WASHINGTON — It won't be gress — Sen. Dianne Feinstein • 'Coalition Family album Reader services 2A easy to decide whether it's appro- nf «ha mate and ig- FortheRecoftTiS TV Week Iniida and Rep. Jane Harman — have 01 UlV militants' priate to create a Cabinet-level introduced separate, but similar, nore official to oversee the nation's legislation to better centralize WHIIltH' demand that it vast intelligence community- * abandon any the intelligence community un- plans to lend Look no further than former CIA der one office, intended to im- Home delivery Director Jim Woolsey. He is 60 security percent in favor and 40 percent prove information sharing, coor- Call 1-800-397-1708 against the move recommended dination and decision-making. time The Associated Press by the commission investigating President Bush has said he is for us to close or visit thehawkeye.com studying the commission's rec- Iraqi Prime Minister lyad Allawi visits tha scane of a car bomb explosion for affordable home delivery. the Sept. 11 attacks. ranks to fight terrorism. There is "I don't think this is one of ommendations. But acting CIA no way to budge to terrorists and In Baghdad, Iraq, in this July 14 photo. Director John McLauglin has those issues which is absolutely give them what they want," gunmen dressed as police ing the Philippines to withdraw clear-cut. I think there is a risk of warned that major structural Allawi said in Damascus, Syria. snatched the leader of an Iraqi troops to save the life of a Filipino layering and adding an added bu- changes could disrupt the The only way t o deal with terror- government-owned construction truck driver last week.