California IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : FBI Joins Probe of Three Murders

The FBI has entered the investigation of the murders of three young women in the same San Diego neighborhood, which authorities believe might be the work of a serial killer. “They (San Diego police) submitted the case to us for analysis after the second murder in February,” said John Douglas, chief of the Behavioral Science Support Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., adding that the agency has intensified its efforts since the third murder, the April 3 slaying of a Michigan teen-ager. “In a case like this, we pull out all the stops,” Police Sgt. Dorothy Powell said in confirming that the FBI has been called in. Police theorize the slayings in the Clairemont area might be the work of one killer because the victims were young women who were stabbed; the murders all were committed at midday in apartments with no sign of forced entry; the victims were found semi-nude, and the crimes took place within four months.