The following is an exact transcript of an article from the Arizona Republic dated November 22 1992.The story title was"Headless woman's killer tried to skin her.Mutilation recalls Silence of Lambs".The authors of the article were Randy Collior and Julia Lobaco."An attempt to "skin"Angela Brosso had been made after the 22 year-old woman was beheaded just as in the hit movie The Silence of the Lambs,The Arizona Republic learned Saturday.A person close to the investigation said the beheading and attempted skinning of Brosso's corpse made the homicide one of the most bizarre in Arizona history.Phoenix police previously had revealed that Brosso's body had been mutilated,but until now,it was not know what the killer had done.Ironically,police have sent information on the killing to the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program,the same unit that was mentioned in the movie,in hopes of obtaining a profile on the killer.In the Acadamy Award winning film,which is show regulary on cable television and is availible in video-rental shops,the FBI pursues a serial killer who skins his victims-large woman-because he is crafting a female cover for his own skin.In a bizarre twist of life imitating art,the man who found the head has the nickname of"The Fisher King" and earlier had been known as"Rambo" two other movie charactors.Jack Callahan,an FBI spokesman,said Saturday that he wasn't sure whether the packet of information from Phoenix police had been sent to Washington yet,but he said it would take three to four days to process the information into a computer."Every murder and every murderer is different,but the profile will give Phoenix police an idea of the type of person to look for",Callahan said.Brosso's headless body was found nov.9 in a park not far from where she lived,in the 2500 block of West Cactus Road.She disapeared after leaving to take a bicycle ride along a water diversion channel near the apartment complex.A head,believed to be Brosso's was found Friday,in the Arizoan Canal near Metrocenter mall about two miles from where the body was discovered.When the man whodiscovered the head,Mark Qualls,returned home Friday,he told his mother that he had"good news and bad news".Marcy Qualls guessed the news."You found that womans head didnt you?"she asked.He responded,"Yes,thats what happened",she recalled Saturday.Marcy Quals said that a week earlier,she told her 38 year-old son that he probably would find Brosso's head in the canal."It was just a strong feeling I had" she said.Mark Qualls,shaken by his expirience would not discuss his discovery.Marcy Qualls said when her son foun the head,he told her"The Lord must think I am an awful strong person".She said he has said he will"never go back to that place again".Her son has been beset with trouble,Qualls said.About five of six years ago,he suffered a severe head injurie in a motorcycle accident.He was revieved after being"dead" for three minutes,Marcy Qualls said."It's been kind of turmoil ever since"she said.In 1987,Mark Qualls left home to live at the edge of a west Phoenix canal bank,spending about a year"living in the wild"his mother said.His nickname was Rambo.He an another man hunted and fished for their meals until they were forced out of their"home" by the comming of the Arizona Canal Diversion Channel.In July 1989,Mark Qualls,then know as The fisher King because of his love of fishing in the Arizona Canal nearly drowned when he slipped and fell into the waterway.Qualls and a friend who jumped in to save him were rescued after being sucked into a 50-foot tunnel at the Deer Valley Water Treatment Plant,3030 W.Dunalp Ave.They clung to a trash grate until help arrived.In August,misfourtune struck again.Qualls found his best friend and fellow fisherman drowned in the Arizona Canal.The friend had suffered an epileptic seizure.Mark was to have met his friend at the canal,but arrived later than promised,Marcy Qualls said."He was the one who had to call the man's wife and tell his daughter,"she said."He was almost in tears and shaking all over.He felt bad he didnt get there earlier."Marcy Qualls said her son has few friends.He said those he had either died or moved away.But he loves to fish and gives away most of his catch to acuaintances.Marcy Qualls said her son is compassionate."People always brought himbirds with broken legs or wings so he could doctor them"she said."And he's the person who feels sorry for the homless.He's taken quilted jackets to those homeless people in Cortez Park because it was so cold".Qualls said she was shakier Saturdaythan when her son brought her the news Friday."It seems like it's getting closer and closer.You wonder,Gee,when is it time to leave?" she said of the troubles in the neighborhood where she and her family have lived for nearly 38 years.On Saturday afternoon,Mark Qualls rode his bicycle to a bar near 35th and Dunlap avenues,then headed home and to bed.He did not want to talk.The media attention is "just about to put him over the edge"Marcy Qualls said,adding that he already had problems sleeping.But her son hopes something good will come of the grisly discovery."he's a very emotional person.He feels very deep for the underdog.He always has",Marcy Qualls said.
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