Killer of Evinrude Heiress Executed
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A high-school dropout was executed in Starke, Fla., for kidnapping and killing an heiress to the Evinrude fortune while robbing the convenience store where she worked. John Earl Bush, 38, was electrocuted for the fatal stabbing of Frances Julia Slater in 1982 in Stuart, Fla. Slater, 18, was the granddaughter of Evinrude Motors founder Ralph Evinrude and actress Frances Langford.