Trask Suspect Takes Lie Test

By ANTHONY THOMSON Staff Writer

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FINDLAY The first suspect in the slaying of 8-yearold Timothy D. Trask was taken downstate last night for a lie detector test at the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Invesigation, London.

¿ The man, a middle-aged well-known eccentric in this northwest Ohio city of 36,000, denied involvement in the slaying. He volunteered to take the lie test.

Police received information he had been seen frequently

Timothy D. Trask

in the arca where the boy's after police found him asleep body was found hidden in in his pickup truck near where bushes about 20 yards away the victim had been fishing. from the placid Blanchard;

River Saturday night.

Police said he showed an unusual interest in several

THE BOY HAD BEEN shot recent murders. once in the chest and once in the back. He had been

THE BODY of one of the

stabbed twice and sexually victims, Mrs. Lisa Davenmolested. He was shot with port of Columbus, was found

a pistol, police said, not a shotgun as first reported.

in the trunk of her car, parked on a downtown Findlay street, several weeks ago. He had been dead since But Findlay Police Chief about 6 p.m. EST Friday, about three hours after he Wayne F. Ethell said he had left his home a mile away to no indication Timmy Trask's spend his first day of school slaying was connected to holiday fishing.

others. He would release no information about comparing The suspect was arrested the Trask bullets with others.

Ethell said his men were concentrating on about a dozen suspects with homosexual tendencies, checking their whereabouts and possible past involvement in sex crimes.

"SEVERAL CHILDREN have told us they saw Timmy after he left home," Ethell said. One boy reported he saw a man talking to the slaying victim near the river.

"When Timmy left, he walked up the bank with the man, but the boys could not see where they went," Ethell said.

Police also checked a report from a family who said they saw a car parked along the river Friday night with a bicycle in the back seat. Timmy had left home on his bike.