TV & VIDEO - Feb. 27, 1990
‘Most Wanted’ Suspect Surrenders: A parolee suspected of murder surrendered to Los Angeles police early Monday, a few hours after seeing himself on “America’s Most Wanted.” James Noel, profiled Sunday night on the Fox TV program, walked into the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Station at 5:45 a.m. and told officers: “I know they’re looking for me and I want to turn myself in,” LAPD spokesman Officer Bill Frio said. Noel, 45, a day laborer, had been on parole for a series of robberies and rapes. He was sought in the killing of Wendy Tarr, 18, who was shot in the head last Oct. 2 in an apartment building near MacArthur Park.
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