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Show DYER Oil TRIAL IIITOTMURDERS LOS ANGELKS, Auf. I lXtXn selection of m Jury to try Albert Dyer, S2, WPA crowing guard, en charges of murdering and attacking attack-ing three young Inglewood girls began today, District Attorney Buron Fitta predicted: "Albert Dyer will be found guilty of murder In the first degree, and ha will hang.'! Dyer, who wss employed to help small children cross a street at Cen-tlnela Cen-tlnela park in Inglewood, la accused ac-cused of luring Melba Everett. , her sister, Madeline, T, and playmate, play-mate, Jeanette Stephens, S, into near-by Baldwin hills on the pretext pre-text they would hunt rabbits. Wen Strangled He Is charged with strangling them to death one by one with pieces of rope and then committing immoral acts upon their dead bodies. The girls disappeared from the park, where they were playing, June 26. Two days later their bodies were found by a group of Boy Scouts searching the hills. Dyer waa among the first to reach the scene and made frequent suggestions sugges-tions about searching for the fiendish fiend-ish killer. Officers took him In custody July 4, claiming he seemed A ssi ,si sh saaaaajiaai aafcaaSf elaaat rSsa , XW HBfinWF llllsrvll ewwnnTXfA "Dyer has confessed at least three times," said William E. Simpson, deputy district attorney, who will prosecute the case. "On as many occasions he has repudiated his confession. con-fession. Reveals Details "But the fact remains that In those confessions he revealed details de-tails of those horrible crimes that detective did not know, but which were substantiated by evidence subsequently sub-sequently developed." We expect to take a week to present our side said Public Defender De-fender Frederic Vercoe, "Dyer will have a fair trial." He said he continued to receive letters from Inglewood citisens casting cast-ing doubt on Dyer's purported confession. |