Third Teen Sought as a Slaying Witness

After talking to two teen-agers arrested in the slayings of three young women in Pasadena, police said they are seeking a third teen-ager as a witness, rather than a suspect.

Cayle Matthew Fielder, 16, of Alhambra, who had originally been identified as a suspect in the slayings discovered Friday in a gated home near the Rose Bowl, is expected to report to police today.

“We’re waiting for him to contact us,” Pasadena Police Sgt. Kevin Hall said Sunday. “We have no information as to where he is, but he realizes that he’s not a suspect.”

Two suspects are being held in Salem, Ore., pending arraignment today in Marion County Juvenile Court, police said.

David Adkins, 16, and Burt Hebrock, 17, were arrested Saturday at the Salem Greyhound Bus station after allegedly fleeing in a car owned by the parents of one of the victims. The maroon Mercedes-Benz was found near the bus station, Salem Police Sgt. Bill McClure said.

The two suspects were said to have been “polite and cooperative” when police arrested them Friday night, about 19 hours after the bodies were discovered. Pasadena police said one of the suspects has relatives in the Salem area.

Adkins and Hebrock are expected to waive extradition, so they will probably be returned to California immediately to face murder charges, Hall said.

Two Pasadena detectives interviewed the two suspects over the weekend, but police declined to divulge possible motives for the slayings of Katherine Macaulay, 18, Heather Goodwin, 18, and Danae Palermo, 17.

According to some students at South Pasadena High School--which all but Hebrock had attended at one time--Adkins had been Macaulay’s “on-again-off-again” boyfriend for several years. Investigators have emphasized that suspects and victims had known each other.

“This is not a stranger killing,” Pasadena Sgt. Van B. Anthony said.

The three victims were found by police early Friday, after someone called to report a possible crime at the home on a wooded cul-de-sac in the well-to-do Annandale section of Pasadena above the Rose Bowl.

Police said that each had been shot at least once in the head at close range and that more than one person had fired shots. The victims were fully clothed and there were no signs of a struggle, officers said.