Seek Woodsman, Believed Slayer of Two GM Executives
The Daily Register
Harrisburg, Ill.
July 22, 1952
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - A posse swarmed over the wild woodlands of Crater Lake
National Park today in an attempt to trap an eccentric mountain woodsman
suspected of slaying two General Motors executives.
FBI agents and state and local police joined park rangers in the manhunt for
67-year-old George Dunkin, who also is a suspect in the murder of a state police
officer last month.
The bodies of C. P. Culhane, 55, Detroit, Mich., and A. M. Jones, 56,
Concord, Calif., were found Monday. The men were gagged with their own neckties
and their shoes were missing.
Culhane, general sales manager of United Motors Service, and Jones, West
Coast sales manager of the General Motors subsidiary, were reported missing
Saturday when they failed to keep a fishing date with two Klamath Falls, Ore.
men.
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