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DATE: Monday, October 14, 1996 TAG: 9610140116
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-5 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: NASHVILLE, TENN.
SOURCE: Associated Press
Investigators in Tennessee and Virginia scrambled Sunday to find acquaintances of a man suspected of killing two women and assaulting five others.
``From his pattern, he's armed and extremely dangerous,'' said Jeff Long, special agent in charge of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's criminal intelligence unit. ``We're trying to do background on him along with friends and relatives and associates he may have.''
The TBI is coordinating investigations between police in Virginia and Tennessee.
Police are seeking Bradley Duane Osborne, 27, of Roland, Okla., in the shooting death of Donetta Keyser, 46, a church secretary from Mt. Juliet, Tenn. She was shot in the head Thursday at a coin laundry and died Saturday.
Police found the body of Stacey Cook, a 22-year-old Bristol woman believed to be Osborne's girlfriend, in a remote part of nearby Washington County, Va., Thursday afternoon. She also had been shot in the head.
Police say Osborne, who has led a nomadic lifestyle, lived in Bristol, Tenn., for several months and had a driver's license with a Hermitage, Tenn., address, the town where Keyser was killed.
Osborne also tried to kidnap a woman Wednesday night at a Bristol, Tenn., convenience store; kidnapped another woman from a Bristol coin laundry, raped her several times and took her car; and tried to abduct another woman at an Elizabethton shopping mall, authorities said.
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