State - Pontiac Investigators look at old slayings

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) -- Authorities are looking into whether the long-unsolved strangulation deaths of five women in Ohio and Michigan might have been committed by a man convicted of killing two other women. Detective Frank Smith of the Sheriff's Department in Butler County, Ohio, said a task force comprised of investigators from those two states and Kentucky is investigating whether any of the five cold case killings can be linked to a 67-year-old Amelia Ohio man, Nolan R. George. "I believe he is responsible for at least seven deaths," Smith told the Detroit Free Press for a story published Sunday. George served 12 years in prison after being convicted of strangling 23-year-old Francis Brown of Lake Orion, Mich., in 1968 by using her own underwear. He later moved to Hamilton, Ohio, and was convicted of manslaughter in the 1982 death of 22-year-old Cindy Garland Rose. She had been suffocated with her panty hose, and died of exposure. Both women were pregnant. George has not been charged in any other slayings. He was being held Sunday in Clermont County Jail near Cincinnati on unrelated charges of menacing and carrying a concealed weapon. Those charges stem from an alleged confrontation between George and his landlord, and the trial is scheduled to start Wednesday. A Clermont County court clerk said her records did not indicate if George had an attorney. There were no published numbers listed under George's name in a local phone directory. Jail officials declined a request to speak to George by phone. Smith said he is investigating George in the strangulation deaths of Della Mae Miller, 24, of Covington, Ky., in 1967 and Tammy King, 22, of Cincinnati in 1982. Smith said he also is awaiting DNA results in the slaying of a woman in northern Ohio. WKRC-TV in Cincinnati reported Miller had been strangled with her own nylons. Michigan authorities are reviewing the 1968 deaths of Gwendolyn Perry and Delores Blaszcyck, the newspaper said. Perry, 22, was strangled with panty hose in Pontiac in December 1968. Troy police are reviewing the unsolved murder of Delores Blaszcyck, 44, found strangled with underwear in July 1968. "We have an active cold-case investigation, and the information developed from the Ohio case is of interest to us, but we're not prepared to call him a suspect in our case," Troy Police Lt. Mike Lyczykowski said. In the Lake Orion killing, George, then 24, met Brown at a bar on the night of March 16, 1968. In a written confession, he described her death. "I went to the car with Miss Brown," he wrote, then crossed out the words "to have sex" and replaced them with "to make love with her." George wrote, "I came to, and realized I had strangled her." Published: Tue, May 25, 2010

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