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Slaying suspect killed in Costa Mesa

Man charged in death of SF socialite Mills
By Maria Cone The Register COSTA MESA A 38-year-old man charged with beating to death a wealthy businesswoman was found shot to death on his mother's doorstep Tuesday night. Jeffrey Molloy Parker, scheduled to appear Thursday on charges that he killed San Francisco socialite Joan McShane Mills in April, died of two gunshot wounds in the head and chest. Costa Mesa police said Parker's mother, Sally Parker, awoke about 11:45 p.m. to the sound of gunshots and called police. As police arrived, she opened the door to her split-level, stucco house at 2021 Aliso Ave., and found her son's body on the doorstep. Parker was pronounced dead on arrival at Fountain Valley Hospital, police said. No suspects or witnesses have been found in Parker's murder, said Sgt. Richard Bell. Several detectives were searching the grounds of the house early today. Parker, a former resident of Jeffrey Malloy Parker Manhattan Beach, had been living Murder suspect slain wittl his mother for about five weeks as he awaited a preliminary TV and movies," Goldstein said. hearing Thursday in Beverly Hills Although Parker was not wealthy, Municipal Court on the charge of he often associated with affluent murdering Mills, Bell said. people, the attorney said. Parker had been released from Goldstein said he was in Beverly Los Angeles County Jail in May Hills to interview police investigaafter pleading innocent and post- tors to prepare for Thursday's ing $150,000 bond, said Santa Mon- hearing when police told him of ica Deputy District Attorney Parker's murder. Marsh Goldstein. He said he had no idea whether Parker was a occasional actor the murder was linked to Mills' who has "had some small parts in death or the hearing Thursday.

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Detectives examine the entry of a Costa Mesa home where murder suspect Jeffrey Parker was shot to death Tuesday. "The timing is certainly interesting, but I can't speculate," Goldstein said. Bell told the Associated Press today that Parker had received some threats from friends of Mills. But Costa Mesa police were unable to confirm the report. A San Francisco attorney representing Mills' wealthy family was out of town and unavailable for comment Wednesday. Parker's attorney also was unavailable for comment. Parker's body was found partially on a ramp leading up to the front door, apparently for use by his crippled grandmother. Mrs. Parker refused comment from her Costa Mesa home this morning. She has lived in the neighborhood for 8 years, with Parker's grandmother and his sister. The gunshots "sounded like an M-80.1 thought it was firecrackers at first. I looked at the window and didn't see anything," said Mark Mimmo, a 16-year-old neighbor. Mills, 33, who was visiting Beverly Hills on a business trip, died April 30 after suffering massive "blunt force" injuries to the chest and abdomen, according to the Los Angeles Coroner's Office. Authorities who entered Mills' hotel room at the Beverly Crest Hotel in Beverly Hills after hearing screams said they found Parker standing over her body in the room. In addition to the murder charge, Parker was charged with possession of cocaine for sale and furnishing cocaine after police Please see PARKER/A2

Backer of King holiday seeks Senate support

Associated Press WASHINGTON The chief House sponsor of a Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday says she is "not going to rest" following the bill's first legislative victory in 15 years, but will immediately begin wooing the Reagan administration and the Senate for support. Rep. Katie Hall, a freshman Democrat from Gary, Ind., was floor manager for the bill Tuesday when the House voted 338-90 to make the third Monday in January a legal national holiday in King's honor. President Reagan's spokesman, Larry Speakes, said today that Reagan thinks King should be honored "and we should explore ways to do it." However, Reagan has opposed creating a government holiday for that purpose, Speakes said. "We're going to view the current legislation and see" what position to take, Speakes said, adding that "we will watch it closely as it goes through the Senate." In the Senate, Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the Republican whip, said he thinks "there is substantial support in the Senate for national recognition for Dr. King." But he said he was concerned about the cost of another federal holiday, and suggested that possibly King's birthday could be given some other form of recognition or combined with another holiday. Every year since the civil rights leader was assassinated on April 4, 1968, legislation was introduced in both houses to create a new national holiday, the nation's 10th. But the Senate never passed the

Shultz mends fences in Congress

Secretary of State urgedto pursue Castro conciliatory gesture
Associated Press WASHINGTON Secretary of State George Shultz mended his fences with unhappy congressional leaders today and was urged to pursue a conciliatory gesture by Cuban President Fidel Castro. The congressional leaders, both Republicans and Democrats, gave Shultz and the Reagan administration mixed reviews on the effectiveness of U.S. policy toward Central America. Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia said Shultz gave every indication that the administration will pursue Castro's recent statement proposing a regional agreement barring arms shipments from one country to another in Central America and requiring the withdrawal of all foreign advisers. INSIDE
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U.S. troops sent to exercises in Honduras will be told to avoid situations that could lead to hostilities with Nicaragua/A? "I think we ought to pursue it," said Republican leader Howard Baker. "It certainly would be a mistake to reject them out of hand ... He may be showboating, but I'd rather assume there is some substance to it." Responding to a chorus of complaints that the leaders of both parties were shut out of recent decisions leading to the administration's latest military and diplomatic moves in Central America, Shultz promised henceforth to consult with Congress in advance. "I think in particular the secretary has shown great sensitivity to the desires of the members of the

One man's battle Rep. William Dannemeyer of Fullerton tried every parliamentary trick in the book to block a national holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. but fails/A12 measure and neither did the House until Tuesday, when Mrs. Hall Please see KING/A2

House and the Senate on both sides of the aisle to be kept informed and to be consulted with," said Byrd. Baker appeared to go out of his way to praise Shultz and to disparage reports that the secretary of state has lost much of his influence in the making of foreign policy. "Today sure did not sound that way to me," Baker told reporters after the two-hour breakfast meeting at the State Department. "George Shultz is strong, quiet; he's determined; he's effective; he's in control; he has an in-depth knowledge and I believe that he's going to turn out to be one heck of a secretary of state." On Central America, the prime subject of the meeting, Baker saw "a tenatative sort of progress." But House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill disagreed. Please see SHULT2/A2

Mothers relieved by Bonin verdict

Ely Kay Cooperman The Register The mothers of three of William Benin's murder victims felt victorious Tuesday. Each woman uttered a muted cheer as she heard her son's name read by courtroom clerk Ruth Kelly along with a corresponding guilty verdict against Bonin. An Orange County jury hearing six weeks of testimony convicted Bonin on Tuesday of four "freeway killer" first-degree murders, spelling another possible death sentence for the 36-year-old former truck driver. A Los Angeles jury convicted Bonin in January 1982 on 10 other murders. Bonin, formerly a Downey resident, was sentenced to death after "There was never any doubt in the Los Angeles trial. His penalty my mind he was guilty," said Fox, hearing in Orange County is whose 17-year-old son, Frank, was scheduled to begin Aug. 11. found strangled in another part of "I'm just so relieved," a trem- the Cleveland National Forest on bling Sharon Barker said after the Dec. 2, 1979. jury's verdict was read. The body Bonin also was convicted of killof her 14-year-old son, Glenn, was ing a fourth boy, 17-year-old Lawdiscovered by hikers in the Cleve- rence Sharp of Long Beach. land National Forest on March 22, Sharp's body was found behind a 1980. Westminster gas station on May "It's been three years now going 18, 1980. Members of his family through this," added Sandra were not in the courtroom TuesMiller, whose 15-year-old son, Rus- day. sell Rugh, was found dead and Bonin also was convicted of four nude along with the Barker boy. robberies. The jury found that Bo"It's been pretty rough. It seems nin intended great bodily injury like yesterday in a way, though." during the robberies. And since Geraldine Fox, the mother of an- the panel also issued guilty verother Bonin victim, said the ver- dicts in more than one murder, Bodict "wasn't a surprise." Please see BONIN/A21

O'Neill ridicules Reagan's proposal to 'study' hunger

By Jerry Estlll Associated Press WASHINGTON President Reagan's concern about hunger in America and his decision to form a task force to look into the problem prompted House Speaker Thomas O'Neill today to renew his attacks on the administration's policies. "I don't know where he's been," said O'Neill, D-Mass., the day after Reagan said no American child should go to bed with an empty stomach. People go hungry because "one particular conservative Republican has led a nationwide campaign of ridicule against America's nu Eighteen gaunt and weary people who fasted nearly a month to pressure the government to release huge surpluses of food declared their protest successful and celebrated by diving into tables loaded with pizza, chicken, fruit and bread/A16 trition programs," O'Neill said, citing cuts in the food stamp program and other government aid. Reagan's instructions Tuesday for a "no-holds-barred study" of hunger came as the U.S. Conference of Mayors was winding up the third in a series of meetings on the Please see HUNGER/A2

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