THE HUBER MURDER CASE : More Women’s Names--More Mystery

Tucked inside boxes, hidden among stacks of papers, on food stamps and credit cards strewn among the debris in accused murderer John J. Famalaro’s country club home in Arizona, investigators have collected a mysterious series of women’s names.

What is the connection between these women, most of whom live in Orange County, and Famalaro?

Police said they do not know. And neither do many of the women themselves.

“It would be interesting to know what my connection would be, but all this is doing is tormenting to me because I don’t remember,” said Leila Leland, 44. Her Irvine address and her name--with one letter missing--were discovered on a label on a box of kitchen utensils stored on a shelf in the suspect’s garage. “I wish I could tell you something that would make it interesting.”

Famalaro, a painter and handyman who grew up in Orange County, was arrested last week in Arizona when police discovered the frozen body of Denise Huber in a truck parked outside his home. Huber, 23, of Newport Beach, had been missing for three years.

During the first search of Famalaro’s home, police compiled a list of 10 women’s names, including Huber’s, and worried that the others might be additional victims. They have since found all those women alive.

But in documents revealed Thursday, police noted half a dozen more names.

There was Linda Globerman, M.D., an Irvine dermatologist whose name was on a magazine stuffed inside a box. Famalaro cleaned her home and office regularly a decade ago, Globerman--who now uses her married name, Jackson--said, but she hasn’t seen him since.

“He seemed nice, he did his job, he even took his grandmother to see me,” she remembered. “I’ve been racking my brains trying to think, but that’s all we knew of him.”

Then there was Donna R. Evinger, 57, a Tustin woman whose name was found on a scrap of paper among a stack of real estate documents--but has no clue as to why.

“Good God, even my middle initial!” Evinger exclaimed. “I don’t understand where he got my name. . . . He even got the R. I only use that as a signature.

“It doesn’t register with me at all,” she said of Famalaro’s picture in the paper. “The name means nothing to me.” After a pause, she added: “I’m pretty shook up. It’s definitely something I never expected to have happen.”

The other names included a retired Seal Beach woman, an 18-year-old California resident whom The Times could not locate Thursday night, and what appeared to be the name of a local chiropractor, though one letter of her name is wrong.

Evinger, Globerman-Jackson and Leland all said Thursday that they had not been contacted by police. But once alerted by reporters, they started wondering about possible links to Famalaro’s life.

“I was looking in the (paper) and I don’t even recognize him,” Leland said, sighing. “I tried to imagine him without a beard. . . . I’d hate to think I hired a murderer. It’s crazy.

“I’d like to know what’s in the (utensil) box,” she added. “But, obviously I’m having a good life without whatever’s in the box.”