Killings Terrorize Fla. College Town : Murders: Two more bodies were found in Gainesville. Three women students had been slain and mutilated two days earlier.

The bodies of a man and a woman were found today, two days after three young women students were found slain and mutilated in their apartments, setting off a wave of fear in this university town at the start of the school year.

Police said they believed that the grisly deaths of three young women were linked but they did not know whether the fourth and fifth deaths were related to the earlier slayings.

“It looks like it’s a part of a serial killer,” state university system Chancellor Charles Reed said today in Tallahassee. “It’s a community problem. It’s not just a university problem. We are taking every precaution we possibly can.”

There were no plans to cancel classes, but students were being encouraged to stay on campus, Reed said. “We think our campus is more secure than the surrounding community right now,” he said.

Gov. Bob Martinez urged that young people avoid staying alone in this college community, where fall classes opened Monday at the University of Florida and nearby Santa Fe Community College.

Alachua Sheriff’s Lt. Spencer Mann said the bodies of a man and a woman were found together about 8:30 a.m. at an apartment complex near one where two bodies were found Sunday. Police set up a command post between those sites and the spot about 2 miles from where a third body was discovered early Monday.

Martinez said authorities were not speculating that a “Ted Bundy copycat” serial killer was on the loose, but the governor said the FBI and “out-of-state experts” are involved in the investigation.

“That’s what we’re all saying. It’s another Ted Bundy on the loose,” said Jana Walters, 18, a freshman from Longwood, Fla. “Some sicko.”

Adding to fears was the mysterious disappearance of Tiffany Sessions, a 20-year-old University of Florida student who vanished after leaving her Gainesville apartment to go jogging on Feb. 9, 1989.

Authorities have declined to give details on the bodies and the possible links.

The Gainesville Sun, however, reported today that the mutilations of the bodies at the two separate apartments was the apparent connection.

Two of the victims, who shared a townhouse apartment, were identified as second-semester freshmen Christina P. Powell, 17, of Jacksonville, and Sonya Larson, 18, of Deerfield Beach. Their bodies were found Sunday afternoon.

Eight hours later, at another southwest Gainesville apartment about two miles away, Alachua County deputies found the body of Christa L. Hoyt, 18, a student at nearby Santa Fe Community College and a full-time records clerk at the Alachua County sheriff’s office.

The Sun quoted unidentified sources as saying that Hoyt had been decapitated and her breasts mutilated, while at least one of the other victims had her nipples cut off.

Police would not confirm the reports but feared more killings were possible because of the gruesomeness of the slayings.