
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 29, 1990                   TAG: 9005290252
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: ARLINGTON                                LENGTH: Medium

ANOTHER BODY FOUND IN ARLINGTON

Two women who were found dead in Arlington over the weekend were prostitutes who worked in Washington, D.C., according to a report in today's Washington Post.

The newspaper quoted anonymous police sources as saying Sherry K. Larman and Sandra Rene Johnson had previously been arrested on prostitution charges in Washington.

They were the sixth and seventh prostitutes found dead in the area since April 1989, police said. Four of the bodies have been found in Northern Virginia.

Larman's body was found about 9 a.m. Saturday in a parking garage. Johnson's body was discovered about 5:30 a.m. Sunday in the apartment building where she lived, less than two miles from where Larman was found.

Arlington police described the deaths as suspicious but said they would not comment further until autopsies are completed.

Prissy Williams-Godfrey, president of Cast Off Your Old Tired Ethics, a group that promotes prostitution, said Monday that she knew both women. Williams-Godfrey said Larman, 26, was known on the streets as "Stacy" and often worked on 13th Street Northwest. Johnson, 20, frequently worked on L Street Northwest, she said.

Sources said several Arlington detectives came to Washington on Monday night to interview women in an area frequented by prostitutes.

In March, Lisa Grossman, 29, was found shot to death outside a building in Alexandria. A month earlier, Carolen Marie Wallace, 22, of Forestville was found slain in a Fairfax County storm sewer just south of the Capital Beltway. She had been shot.

The other victims were Roxanne Lynn Johnson, 23, of Baltimore, who was discovered Oct. 1 outside Ballou High School in Washington; Cori Louise Jones, 29, found Aug. 12 on an Anacostia street; and Mary Ellen Sullenberger, 20, who was dumped near 12th and L streets Northwest last April 2. All had been shot.

No arrests have been made in any of the killings.

The slayings have had no noticeable effect on the number of prostitutes working on the District's streets, but many say the violence has forced them to be more selective about their customers. They also have begun to take precautions.

After Grossman's death, police sources said they believed the killings were related, noting that four of the victims had worked near 14th and L streets Northwest.

by CNB