The Region : L.A. Checking S.F. ‘Intruder’ Slaying

Detectives from Los Angeles went to San Francisco to compare notes with Bay Area investigators about a weekend murder there said to fit the pattern of the “Valley Intruder” assault-killings that have terrorized the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys in recent months. Accountant Peter Pan, 66, was shot to death and his wife, Barbara, 64, was shot and critically wounded by an assailant who entered their home through an unlocked downstairs door or window sometime between 10 p.m. last Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday, when the crime was discovered by the couple’s son. A San Francisco police spokesman said the method of entry was similar to that used by the Valley Intruder, who is believed responsible for as many as a dozen slayings and 15 rapes, beatings and kidnapings in the Los Angeles area this year.