New murder laid to trash-bag killers

• Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES The mutilation murder of a 23-year-old Hollywood man was linked yesterday to the suspected homosexual killers held by nearby Riverside, Calif., authorities in the series of trash bag slayings.

John Woods, whose body was found June 20, 1976, in the bathroom of his apartment in Hollywood, is the latest

victim identified in a series of at least 15 murders which span 10 years and. five California counties, police said.

Los Angeles homicide investigator John St. John said the two murder suspects, Patrick W. Kearney, 37, and David D. Mill, 34, were connected to the Woods slaying through information developed by Riverside sheriff's detectives.