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The PARIS — Britain's Princess , who had been struggling to build a new public and private life after her turbulent divorce, was killed today along with her companion, Dodi Fayed, in a car crash as their Mer- cedes was being pursued by photographers. The 36-year-old princess died at 4 a.m. after going into cardiac arrest, doctors told a hospital news conference. The crash happened shortly Diana died at the Hospital de la after midnight m a tunnel along Pitie Salpetnere in south-central the Seme River at the Pont de Paris. 1'Alma bridge, less than a half mile Before news of the death, a north of the Eiffel Tower m central Buckingham Palace spokeswoman Paris. It came as paparazzi — the in London said Prince Charles, commercial photographers who now in Balmoral, Scotland, had constantly tail Djana — followed been informed of the accident. her car, police said "We are aware of this awful ac- The death was, announced ai a 6 cideni but we are awaiting funher a.m. hospital news conference by details about what has happened," Dr Bruno Riou, an anesthesiolo- the spokeswoman said on condition gist. of anonymity. Diana and Prince Charles, heir to American tourists Tom Richard- the British throne, separated m son and Joanna Luz were among 1992 after 11 years of marriage and the first on the scene divorced last year They told CNN they were walk- Their two sons Prince William, ing nearby when they heard the 15, and Prince Harry, 12, had been crash and ran into the tunnel. informed of her death The car Diana was in "looked "The death of the Princess of like it hit a wall," said Richardson, Wales fills us all with shock and of San Diego. deep grief," said British ambassa- "There was smoke I think the dor Michael Jay, who was at the car hit a wall A man started run- hospital ning towards us telling us to go," Diana's death from cardiac ar- Luz said: "The horn was sound- The Associated Press rest came after she suffered heavy ing for about two minutes. I think DIANA, Princess of Wales, her friend Dodi Fayed and their chauffeur They were being pursued by paparazzi. French police arrested five internal bleeding m the earlj- it was the driver against the steer- died early today when their Mercedes crashed in a Paris tunnel. photographers. mormng accident. French radio ing wheel." said the paparazzi were trailing Di- ana's car on motorcycles. Five • CRASH, Page~A10 Fame didn't bring happiness photographers were arrested, it said. The high-speed pursuit ended m The Associated Press "Any sane person would have a crash in the tunnel that trapped left long ago. But I cannot. I have several people m a pileup. The LONDON — Princess Diana, my sons," said Diana. force of the crash crumpled the beautiful, famous and wealthy, She had often pleaded with the roof of the Mercedes to door level. won the admiration of millions but press — particularly the pack of British Prime Minister Tonv lc liajjpuicSS ciuSi'i c. Blair, who was awakened with A year after her supposedly every move — to leave her alone. news of the accident, said he was fairy tale marriage to Prince A steady stream of photographs "shocked and saddened" by the Charles ended in divorce, in the tabloids over the past month "devastating, appalling tragedy," a 36-year-old Diana seemed finally to showed Diana and Dodi Fayed, the Downing Street spokesman said. have found, in Dodi Fayed, a land son of Egyptian billionaire Mo- Fayed, a film producer and the of uncomplicated joy. But the pres- hamed Al Fayed, embracing, 42-year-old son of the billionaire sures of an insatiable press and laughing and relaxing in the Medi- Egyptian owner of London's Har- public had not abated at the time of terranean. rod's department store, was also her death from injuries suffered in Lady Diana Spencer, the daugh- killed in the accident, along with a car accident early today in Paris. ter of an earl, was 20 when she the chauffeur. In an interview published last married the heir to the British His father, Mohamed Al Fayed, week, she told the French newspa- throne July 29, 1981, in a ceremony was on his way to Pans, said his The Associated Press per Le Monde she would like to watched by millions around the spokesman, Michael Cole. Princess Diana, sons Harry and William, and estranged husband move to another country, but globe. The fourth person m the car, a The Associated Press Prince Charles pose in a 1995 file photo. couldn't because of her sons, who bodyguard, was seriously injured DODI FAYED, a movie producer, are in line for the British throne. • FAIRY, Page A10 in the crash. died in the accident.

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DELIVERY PROBLEMS9 CALL 470-0050 Syracuse Herald American, Sunday, August 31,1997 'What happened to you?' he asked Suspected : T HAPPENED "I'm telling you, we need help," horrified them to the point that ^Continued from Page Al Conway said. His department has have to consciously push the •H - had up to a dozen investigators thought out of their minds. thief caught nfdans of pain, he said. tracking hundreds of leads and in- "The way they did it, they want- "She might have been trying to terviewing 400 to 500 people. ed her to suffer," said Ryan's sis- answer me," he said. But he never But for the first time since ter, Kathy Lane of Syracuse. "I at border made out a word. Ryan's death Sept. 1,1996, authori- want to know who. But more than Her eyes were swollen shut, her ties are saying they may be getting who, I want to know why." ^ Former armored car face badly bruised. Pieces of straw somewhere. District Attorney Wil- Ryan's son, Shawn Hamilton of or dried grass lay on her back and liam Fitzpatrick last week said in- Fulton, said he's tormented from driver accused of tangled in her bedraggled brown vestigators have "a very, very hot thinking too much about the way hair, as if she'd been dragged, the lead." But he refused to divulge de- his mother died. taking $22 million. ;: fisherman said. The straw didn't tails. "What I've learned is that no s$em to match anything in the The horrifying manner of matter what you do in life, no mat- By Ron Word afe^. She kept trying to move, but Ryan's death may be unique in the ter how hard you try, you can get The Associated Press couldn't even turn her head. The annals of American violence. FBI stripped like that and nobody gives fisherman guessed she must have agents, who were called in to do a a damn," Hamilton said. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A dis- been shot. profile of the killer, told sheriffs Ryan. 42, lived alone in Grant gruntled armored car driver be- He never saw the woman's investigators that they'd never Village Apartments in Syracuse. KATHY LANE, Carol Ryan's sister, says whoever killed her sister lieved to have taken $22 million in .front. And he didn't know until seen another homicide where She had a history of drunken driv- "wanted her to suffer." Lane say she wants to know who did this, but the biggest heist in U.S. history .days later that someone had in- someone was kUled the way Ryan ing arrests. She had worked on and more than that she wants to know why. was arrested Saturday when he serted an explosive device, with was. off at local factories, but was un- crossed the border imo Texas, -fhe strength of a quarter stick of The FBI's profiling and behav- employed at the time of her death. using the name of a former room- ioral assessment unit has consulted She also loved jazz, rock 'n' roll jacket with fringes on the front and mate, the FBI said. Jvnamite, in her vaeina and deto- PlOOTTOC1 9TT? cilT-O*. ioTTTolT VloCP'r? rrn,,, „„-,.,. .,.,, _„* ;_^^j,vtnl-. naiea n. aae \vouia aic irom ificse r injuries about five hours later in around the world since the unit friends, her son said. When tne iisnerman found ner recovered, ana autnormes ao noi the hospital. was established in 1985, according The day before Ryan died, she about 6:20 a.m., there were no know where it might be. to spokesman Kurt Crawford. was making plans to bring her clothes in sight. The only jewelry Philip Noel Johnson, 33, was . , The fisherman, still on his knees, "In a way that's good for us," family back together. She'd told left was a 10-karat gold band with stopped by U.S. Customs agents asked the dying stranger one other Conway said. "They're very inter- her sister in a phone conversation two small square green stones and and asked for his identification as ^estion, over and over: ested because they've never seen a that Saturday morning that she one small diamond, and a white he was crossing from Matamoros, .- .""What happened to you?" Her person do this. In a professional's wanted to have a cookout at her opal with a white gold band. The Mexico, into Brownsville at the Answer, if she'd been able to give mind, that piques an interest. But son's house on Sunday, Lane said. fisherman said one of the rings was southern tip of Texas. one, might have revealed her exe- in another way it's bad for us, be- Ryan, the third of seven chil- on Ryan's finger, the other on the When Johnson gave the name cutioner's name. cause there aren't any other cases dren, had been deeply troubled ground beside her. Roger Lawter, the name poppet! for them to draw on." since her mother, Edith Paul, died Another ring — with a red ruby up as an abas used by the former An unsolved case The manner of Ryan's death of heart failure in January, Lane — was missing. Loomis, Fargo & Co. driver, said suggests a particularly sinister said. Ryan had taken her mother's Investigators cut out a piece of George Cheek, a spokesman for the Sheriffs investigators still don't mind, Fitzpatrick said. It may have death harder than any of her sib- the pavement where Ryan's body FBI in Jacksonville. know it. Carol Ryan's killer has been a statement from a woman- lings, Lane said. Ryan started was found, to search for clues that U.S. Customs Service spokes- , gdne undetected for exactly a year, hater, he said. drinking more heavily after her might link the killer to the scene. woman Judy Turner said Johnson tfo'w they're asking for the public's "Anytime there's mutilation to mother died, her sister said. They don't know if she'd been was traveling with more than help. the genitalia, you have to think of "It's about time we started being beaten somewhere else, but it ap- $10,000 in cash. ''Thinking that a potential wit- some type of intense rage directed a family again," Ryan told her sis- pears certain that the explosive de- "The inspectors found money in •ness might return to the area only ter on the phone. Ryan was in a vise was detonated right where against the gender in general, as Family photo his bag, so we decided to check fur- on( Labor Day-weekend each year, opposed to this person specifical- good mood that day, but couldn't she was found, Fitzpatrick said. CAROL RYAN stands with her ther, and there was money in his ".investigators hope publicity about ly," Fitzpatrick said. help remembering her mother. Sheriff's investigators have son, Shawn Hamilton, in 1987. shirt pockets and pants pockets. It -the anniversary will stir someone "She said she missed Ma," Lane cleared many potential suspects, turns out he had 810,498 in U.S. 'to.,call, Capt. Gene Conway said. said. including John Andrews, the man She's wearing the black suede A shattered family accused in the slayings of two Dry- jacket she wore the night was currency," Turner said. Aiiyone with information should killed a year ago. It's still miss- The FBI in Brownsville was con- call the Sheriffs Department at Ryan's two closest relatives say den High School cheerleaders in tacted, and Johnson was taken into 435-3081. the manner of Ryan's death has October. Andrews later hanged ing. Ryan had ended that night at himself in jail. federal custody. He will be ar- the East Room bar in Eastwood, Ryan's family is growing impa- Ryan's killer might think, incor- raigned Tuesday morning before a staying until closing time at 2 a.m., tient as the investigation drags rectly, that she managed to tell U.S. magistrate in Texas on a fed- GIVE THE investigators said. Toward the end into its second year. A few months him who killed her. For that rea- eral charge of unlawful flight to of the night, investigators told ago, they contacted "America's son, he asked that his name not be avoid prosecution. Lane, Ryan offered to take anyone Most Wanted," the syndicated tele- published. Johnson allegedly overpowered GIFT OF LIFE in the bar to breakfast. She wanted vision program that tries to help For a short time afterward, he two co-workers in Jacksonville to pay for it with a disability check police catch criminals. The produc- wondered if he could've done March 29 and fled with the cash. she'd just gotten from Social Secu- ers told Hamilton they were inter- something to save her. But he said One worker was found chained to a Suest that memorial rity Insurance for what her sister ested. But they did not give a defi- he now realizes there was nothing tree, another handcuffed to a pipe called a chronic lung problem. nite answer to sheriff's anyone could have done. in Johnson's home. But Ryan left the bar alone, Con- investigators about plans to broad- "I see her every day," the fisher- Johnson, 33, was initially consid- to the Muscular way said. Investigators told Lane cast the case, Conway said. man said. "I can't help but think ered an amateur who would be nabbed in day?. That was before .Dystrophy Association that her sister was last seen hitch- "Somebody had to see some- about it. I think about how much hiking down the middle of James thing that night," Lane said. "This pain this person must've gone authorities discovered he'd alle- and honor a loved one Street. That confirmed for Lane sicko needs to be caught before it through." gedly been painstakingly planning that Ryan must have been intoxi- happens to somebody else. It's But he's not haunted by the hor- the robbery for years. by helping a million cated. going to happen if they don't catch rifying figure he discovered by the Loomis, Fargo will not discuss Americans with. Ryan was hitchhiking toward "em." side of the road, he said. the robbery. the city when two women in a car "What angers me," the fisher- Johnson used fake IDs to avoid neurorriuscuj'ar 1-800-572-1717 saw her, Conway said. She was man said, "is the idea that whoever police and had fake passports he discuses. wearing black jeans, black boots, Fear and anger could do this to someone is still out could use to leave the country, the This spa± provided as a public service silver shirt, a black suede leather The fisherman worries that there." FBI said.

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