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April 24, 1996
Web posted at: 4:00 p.m. EDTMissing actress found alive but disoriented
GLENDALE, California (CNN) -- After actress Margot Kidder was found dazed in a suburban back yard three days after being reported missing, she was taken for psychiatric testing, Glendale police said Wednesday.
Police said they had found no evidence that Kidder was the victim of a crime.
The actress, best known for her role as Lois Lane in "Superman" movies, was found Tuesday and taken to Olive View Medical Center, said Sgt. Fran Judge. She disappeared Saturday night from Los Angeles International Airport while waiting for a flight to Phoenix, Arizona.
Kidder was wearing soiled clothing, and she apparently had cut her hair with a razor blade to alter her appearance; she seemed "frightened and paranoid," police said. (318K AIFF sound or 318K WAV sound) Investigators had ruled out alcohol or drugs as reasons for her behavior.
Dahmer's 'instruments of death' to be sold
PORTAGE, Wisconsin (CNN) -- Jeffrey Dahmer's hatchet, sledgehammer and refrigerator, which stored body parts of some of his murder victims, could go on the auction block.
Circuit Judge Daniel George cleared the way Wednesday for attorney Robert Steuer to also sell items such as drill bits, a chainsaw, knives, handcuffs and hypodermic needles that Dahmer used in his grisly crimes.
Dahmer killed at least 17 young men and boys, some of whom he cannibalized. Prosecutors fought the sale, calling the items "instruments of death" that should be destroyed.
Steuer was appointed to settle claims on Dahmer's estate by relatives of eight of his victims. Auction profits would go to the victims' families. No auction date was set.
Dahmer was beaten to death in 1994 at the state prison in Portage, where he was serving multiple life sentences.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Pilots escape injury in collision
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two Navy fighter jets collided in mid-flight during exercises near Norfolk, Virginia, but no one was injured. (318K QuickTime movie)
Both planes were damaged in the Tuesday crash but able to return to their base at Oceana Naval Air Station. A Navy spokesman described the damage as not much more than a "bump."
Each plane was an F/A-18C, an aircraft carrier-based fighter and attack plane with a crew of one.
They were assigned to Navy reserve squadron VFC-12 in Oceana. The two pilots were reservists serving their two-week stint with the squadron.
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