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to comfort the distraught couple,

That same day, a detective visited the Reichs’
farm and questioned their hired hand, Alfred Koenig.
He also called on nelghboring farms and visited
youre, people who were known to be acquaintances of

udoff's. No one had any idea what had happened to
him, but several spilled their guts about the missng
man, who evidently was quite a character.

Rudoff’s passion was automobiles, He liked them,
drove them and totalled them. In the recent past, he
had wrecked five vehicles because of his penchant
for attempting to break the sound barrier on the
treacherous back roads of Austria. At the time of his
and had had his

H license revoked.

Another rather interesting point regarding Rudolf
was the absence of girl fn hi
Everyone who knew him mentioned that he never
dated and hardly ever talked to a member of the
opposite sex. His friends pointed out that in no way
were they Insinuating that he was homosexual. There
was more. Rudoff had a bad reputation as an

ink who fr local bars and
always picked on men who were smaller than him,
The missing man also avoided working on his
Parents’ tiny farm. He would much rather dash off
and wreck a car whenever the mood struck him,

The St. Poelten police contacted Vienna police,
Anyone who couldn’t be found in St. Poelten
invariably made their way to Vienna. But not this
time. The Viennese police couldn't locate Rudoff. Bus
depots and train stations were canvassed. No one
remembered seeing the missing man leave town, A
detective was dispatched to an area where
hitch-hikers were known to linger beside a garage in
the hope of thumbing down a lift. By coincidence the
garage operator had gone to school with Rudoff
and would have recognized him had he been
hitch-hiking beside his garage.

St. Poelten police regrouped. They went back to
square one, Rudoff's friends had no idea where he
was. Nelghbors were clueless. Yet, he apparently
hadn't left town, Two weeks after Rudoff's parents
reported him missing, police were no closer to
solving the case than the moment they had reccived
the report,

They decided to delve Into Rudolf’s history in
search of a lead. One thing puzzled police. Since
Rudoff had no visible income’ and his parents eked-
out a meagre living from the proceeds of their tiny
farm, where had the money come fron: to pay for all

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small, Perhaps they had recently sold off , ,
some acreage. The detective checked sales records |
against the dates when Rudoff had purchased
second-hand cars. Sure enough, every sale of land
was quickly followed by the purchase of a vehicle, <
Just when the police were lving up the search, :
they found Rudoff's body in the far back corner of |.
the Relch farm. He had been buried in a coffin-llke >’ -
box. When his parents were notified of the discovery,
they immedlately confessed to their Dat in the plot.:.
to ellminate their own son, They had ordered hired ,,,
hand Alfred Koenig to perform the killing,

ranz, Christine and Alfred were
uestioned separately. hey, ail told
the same story, The tearful Christine’
recital was by far the most dramatic.
She related that her son was not only |
a coward, but a sadist who took great’’
pleasure in inflicting pain on those = -+
vulnerable individuals smaller or weaker than
himself, Everyone he met fled from his sadistic
tendencies, until he homed in on the one person :
who could not fight or flee. That person was his own -
mother. His father Franz was too weak to resist his
aggressive son and gave in to Rudoff’s every desire.
Rudoff beat his mother with a cattle whip. He often ;
unched and kicked her and made her crawl on all:
fours like a dog. When he wanted to purchase a new
car, he forced his father to sell off a portion of his
farm, Little by little, the farm was reduced to a tin,
strip of land which could hardly support anyone.

Each time Rudoff wrecked a car he became furious:
and beat up his mother and father.

Finally, they could stand it no longer. Christine
attempted to hang herself and was prevented from -
doing so by hired hand Alfred Koenig. The three :
occupants of the tiny farm held a meeting. They =; +
decided that the world would be a better place :

without Rudoff. They would kill him, Alfred was told?.

lo do the job, Being a loyal and obedient employee, 3
he agreed. Alfred sharpened his axe. While Rudoft 4
slept, he brought the axe down squarely on his head.’
Rudoff would torment his mother and father no :
more,

The body was placed in a box and buried in a far
corner of the farm. The conspirators confessed that ::
they had known exactly what they were doing. They-*
simply had decided that Rudoff would destroy them ;-
if he were allowed to live. "

On March 2, 1984,. Franz and Christine Reich we:

“convicled on the reduced charge of manslaughter.
‘Bach was: two *

Alfred Koenig was found guilly of the same charge.
Ie received a five-year sentence.

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zly bear over the weekend in a
remote area of a British
Columbia park has helped save
the bear’s life.

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Bears are usually shot by
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“I was very much the intrud-
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A 16-square-mile area of the
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{, Déar Ann Landers: My beau-
ful girlfriend, Maria Elena, was
“only 20 years old when she dicd.
{Mari” was full of love and com-
passion for everyone. She had the
ability to bring all kinds of people
together in friendship, Everyone
who knew her said she was a joy
and an inspiration.

{Mari suffered from epilepsy
Since childhood. She had a seizure
and drowned while taking a bath.
That wonderful person died for no
good reason. The medicine that
could have prevented the seizure
gat untouched in her bedroom a
dozen steps away.

1 My Mari, who was so sensible
about most things, ignored pleas
from me and other close friends to
take her medication regularly.
Those of us who loved her are
vr

Upset with ourselves for not
watching her more carefully and
ingking her understand that taking
het medicine was a matter of life
and death. We all feel terrible.
The dear, beautiful girl did not
have to die.

‘ If anyone who is reading this
has epilepsy or suffers from a life-
threatening illness, please take
your medication and follow your
doctor’s orders, Think of those

who love you and make the
choice to stay here with them,

If you care for someone and
suspect or know that he or she is
not taking the medicine needed to
stay alive or well, don’t Ict it go.
Don't kid yourself into believing
that these people know what is
best for themselves, They don't.

4 Landers

Syndicated
Columnist

Talk to family members, doctors,
co-workers, anyone who might be
able to influence them, Don’t let
the matter slide or you might find
yourself heartsick and incon-
solable—like me. —Mouming in
Albuquerque

Dear Albuquerque: You have
written a beautiful letter but it is
obvious that you are carrying a
terrible burden of guilt. Please
understand that it was not your
responsibility to sce that Mari
took her medicine. It was up to
her to take care of herself, Her
failure to do so cost her her life.

Unload the burden of

Dear Ann Landers: All my
life I've been The Good Friend.
The Pal. Someone to talk to when
there's trouble. Someone to go to
for advice, Someone to rely on.
I'm glad women trust me and I
value these friendships, but why
am I never viewed as a romantic
Prospect? Can it be that I'm too
nice?

I'm in my mid-20s and have
never had a serious i

hunch you're in for a surprise,

Dear Ann Landers: Lately
your column has done quite a lot
of male-bashing. If you are inter-
ested in presenting a more bal-
anced view of the world as it it,
you will print my letter.

Iam a recent widower. My
wife passed away in July of 1990.
Tam 63 years old, in good health,
not bad looking, reasonably intel-
ligent, inf Ht d,

I'm not handsome, but I’m not
ugly either. Do women just not
fall in love with a good friend?

The women I know tell me
how rotten their boyfriends treat
them and I've read similar horror
stories in your column. But nice
guys like me never get a second
look. Am I condemned to be for-
ever alone and loveless? What's
the matter with me that I'm —Just
a good friend in Santa Fe

Dear Just: The most durable
love relationships grow out of
friendship. In fact, love is friend-
ship that has caught fire.

can it be that you aren’t aggres-
sive enough? I'll bet some of
those women who perceive you as
a pal would be thrilled if you'd
make the first move. Try it and let
me know what happens, I have a

and I appreciate how much a good
woman can add to a moan’s life.
My wife was a wonderful person
and we had many happy years
together.

In the last six months, I have
had 17 dates. Dozens of well-
meaning friends and family mem-
bers had just “the right woman”
for me, At this moment I feel like

- a laboratory frog that has been

dissected and scrutinized under a
microscope.

Not one of the 17 women I
dated had the slightest interest in
what I thought about anything. No
one asked a single question. They
were not interested in hearing
about my four fine children, who
are now young men with good
careers and families of their own.
All they wanted to talk about was

my income, my assets, the market
value of my home, and whether I
had any good investments,

I am so disgusted that I don't
feel like going out on another
date, I’ve just about decided to
stay single for the rest of my life,
which is a shame because I have a
lot to offer and I really would like
to be married again,

The facts are exactly as stated
in this letter, I don't mind if you
publish my name and address, In
fact, I wish you would. —Long
Island

Dear Long Island: I appreciate
your honesty but I wouldn't think
of printing your name and
address, You would have women
on your doorstep from every state
in the union and Canada as well.

I don’t know where all those
lemons came from. Too bad, but
please don't give up. There are
lots of peaches out there too. You
just haven't met them yet. Good
luck to you.

Dear Ann Landers: Recently,
my husband and I retumed froma
vacation in Florida, We stayed at
a lovely hotel, which was clean
and comfortable. Upon arriving,
we noticed an envelope on the
dresser saying, “Dyan is your

housekeeper for the week." Each
day wé received fresh towels,’ the

guilt you are feeling

beds were made and the bathroom -

cleaned. ‘

My questions: Js it necessary to t

tip Dyan for her services? Isn't
the service she performs part of
what we are entitled to when we
pay for the use of the room? Iam
a waitress in Massachusetts and I
make $2.23 an hour, I also have to
Pay income tax on my tips.

I don’t want to be insensitive
but if Dyan received at least mini-
mum wage per hour and does not
have to pay taxes on her tips, why
must we tip her? What is the
Proper procedure, Ann?

We did not leave anything in

the envelope and now I am won- ©

dering whether or not we should
have, —Unsure in Massachusetts

Dear Unsure: I always tip the
hotel (or motel) maid.

Whether or not she has to pay
taxes on her tips is of no impor-
tance to me.

You would not believe the con-
dition in which some of those

rooms are left. As far as I'm con- .
cemed, the maids who clean them ~

are entitled to something extra.

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news: fet

current compilation of
the most iarthings
people do, edited by Chuck
Shepherd:
Proof that true stories are
weirder than made-up

Least competent people

¢ A 20-year-old convenience
store clerk was stabbed to death
by a robber in Lewiston, Maine,
last fall while police, who had
been tipped off to the robbery,
staked out the front of the store
but failed to observe the robber's
entrance through the back door.

In January, an Ontario, Calif.,
police officer gathered evidence for
an arrest by buying heroin from two
people selling from a back window
of a motel room. He had wanted to
‘use undercover officers, but every-
one from that unit had gone home
for the evening, so he tried making
the buy dressed in full police uni-
form. He was successful because
the sellers’ peephole allowed them

, aview only of the buyers face.

. * During.a prostitution sting-
operation in Chattanooga; ‘Tenn.
in March, three men were arreste'
for propositioning a female under-
cover officer, despite the fact that
because of
on sting operations)
the officer was wearing a depart-
t-issue hat with 3-inch- high

stories.

* Robert BE. Bell Jr., head psychi-
atrist of the Florida prison sys-
tem, was arrested in May and
charged with breaking into his
former girlfriend’s home and
threatening to stab her to death if
she did not return the chocolate
syrup, tuna fish and cigarettes he
though she had stolen from him.

letters “POLICE” on it.

¢ In October, Minnesota mur-
derer and prison escapee Eugene

wasn't thinking. I said, ‘Ah,
nobody's gonna hear me.’” Ste-
ichen’s earlier escape was a ques-
tionable judgement, also: He had
served all but five months of a
10-year sentence.

¢ Cecelio Rodriguez, 30, and
Armando Milian, 33 were arrest-
ed in Miami in April as police
caught them red-handed attempt-
ing to break into the Cash mar
Pawnshop. The police were sum-
moned by a wailing burglar
alarm, but the burglars said they
failed to hear it over the noise
from the portable generator and
power saw they had brought in
order to cut through the pawn
shop's steel door.

* A cashier at the Song Moun-
tain ski resort in new York report-
ed in February that someone had
passed a $50 bill that was merely.

$5 bill with the comers from:a
“$50 bill pasted over the edges. '

* The Texas Court of Appeals
last year turned down Billy Ray
Ford’s appeal of his conviction for
robbery for a series of reasons,
one of which was his answer to a
question posed by the judge at his
trial. When asked whether he had
had and contact out in the hallway
with witnesses against him, he

was d in St.
Paul because he couldn’t resist
telephoning a radio station call-in
show to win the “Dead or Not
Dead” quiz game. Two cousins
tecognized his voice and tumed
him in. Said Steichen, “I just

d yes. When the judge

asked which witnesses, Ford

replied, “The ones that I robbed.”
The entrepreneurial spirit

* More than a dozen cars were

pulled from a pond in Anna,
Texas, last summer, site of a local
spot for dumping cars for insur-
ance fraud. Most of the cars had
been reported stolen, but had
keys in the ignition and bricks
fastened to accelerators. the
insurance industry believes 46
per cent of car thefts nationally
are fraud cases.

* The Gaslights Record Store
in Melbourne, Australia, holds an
annual “Nude Day” in which any
nude customer wins one free
record, Seventy records were
given away last fall.

+ A treadmill for dogs, “Jog-A-
Dog,” is on the market, with
models starting at $1,395, to
allow dogs to run in place in the
privacy of their own homes.

+ Etamet, a St. Gallen, Switzer-

patient's rear ends from exposure.

¢ Natalie manor of Events
Extraordinaire Inc, has written
“Karkicks,” an exercise program
for the person “who doesn't have
enough hours in the day” and who
might find time to exercise while

driving. Manor's two-tape program ;

allows body toning, stress reduc-
tion and, she says, safe driving.

(Send your Weird News to
Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 57141,
Washington, D.C. 20037.)

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* The Post Ranch Inn, a resort
in Monterey County, Calif., will
soon offer accommodations that
include a tree house with a mini-
bar, TV, VCR, fireplace and hot
tub, to rent for $350 per night.

° A company called No-Moon
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Guilt-free picnic

* ‘Americans love picnics. Picnics
around the fire ring at the beach.
Picnics on a splintery wooden
table in a remote campground.
Even a picnic at a concrete rest
stop as cars whiz past on the inter-
‘State continues one of our food
‘traditions.
‘ We love them so much we even
joke about the built-in nuisances ...
ash on the hot dogs ... blackened
‘marshmaliows ... and a colony of
{ants in the picnic basket.
y And over the years, those who
eat outdoors have developed
Standard picnic menus. (When was
the last time you heard any picnic-
bound diners say: “You bring the
almond-studded brie and we'll
pack the frozen peach mousse
with minted raspberry sauce?”)
§ Instead, at summer picnics we
fisually expect hot dogs or burgers
With a little (or a lot) of each of
the following: baked beans, mayo-
laced coleslaw, potato salad, mac-
aroni salad. And — what amounts
to a nod to health — a slice of cold
watermelon.
+ Pile ‘all this food on a paper
plate and what do you have? Well,
lot, of calories, fat and sodium
‘with your meal.
! For example, snack on potato
chips and dip and then go to the
pus and select a hot dog on a bun
small, yes small, servings of
pork ‘n’ beans and potato salad.
r. dessert have a brownie and
it all down with a soft drink.
‘ou'll have consumed in only one
meal 1,103 calories, 50 grams of
fat and a. whopping 2,384 milli-
J of sodium. That's more
‘a whole day’s allotment for
some people and you didn’t even
have seconds.

Tf this has thrown you into menu
shock, the registered dietitians at
Scripps Clinic and Research Foun-
dation, La Jolla, Calif., have come
to your rescue.

‘You can have your picnic and
maintain your health as well. And
it’s possible with some good eat-
ing, not rice cakes and organic
broth.

Registered dietitian Janice Shi-
gehara has devised a picnic menu
with less than half the calories,
half the fat and about a third of
the sodium of a traditional picnic
plate. |

SPINACH TARRAGON DIP

1 (10¥%4-ounce) package tofu

1 tablespoon olive oil

3 tablespoons lemon juice

1 large garlic clove, pressed

¥% teaspoon coarsely ground
black pepper

¥% tablespoon honey

8 to 10 fresh spinach leaves,
washed and drained 5

% teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons tarragon

Yields 1 cup: 24 calories per 2
tablespoons, 3,3 grams fat and 62
milligrams sodium.

In blender or food processor,
combine all ingredients except

GREEK BARBECUED CHICKEN
3 large chicken breast
halves, skinned and cut
into thirds
2 tablespoons olive oll
. tablespoons lemon juice

for app
1 minute on HIGH. Add tarragon
and whirl $0 seconds more on ME-
DIUM speed.” :

Refrigerate for at least 1 hour”

before serving. Serve chilled with
vegetable strips or “baked” tortil-
la chips, >:

P or more
minced dried oregano

Ya teaspoon salt

Pepper to taste

Yields'4 servings (2 pieces per
Person): 233 calories, 16 grams fat
and 360 milligrams sodium.

Combine all ingredients except
chicken. Place chicken pieces in
marinade, turn to coat, and mari-
nate for ¥% to % hour.

Grill over medium hot coals or
broil 15 to 20 minutes or until
done,

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