Suspects in 3 Slayings to Be Tried as Adults

Two teen-age suspects in the shotgun slaying of three young women in Pasadena in March must be tried as adults, a Pasadena Juvenile Court Judge ruled Tuesday.

Because of the severity of the crimes they are alleged to have committed, David Adkins and Burton Vincin Hebrock, both 17, are unfit to stay in the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court, said Judge Sandy R. Kriegler. Immediately after his ruling, Kriegler ordered the two transferred from Juvenile Hall to Los Angeles County Jail.

Adkins and Hebrock are charged with murdering Heather Goodwin, 18; Danae Palermo, 17, and Katherine Macaulay, 18, on March 22 in a pool house in the Annandale section of Pasadena after a drinking and marijuana party. Each of the victims was shot once in the head at close range with a shotgun, police said. The sixth teen-ager at the party, Cayle Fielder, 16, testified for the prosecution.