Herbert Tracy White

LOS ANGELES - A manhunt is under way for a Pennsylvania couple who police say killed a Good Samaritan who befriended them, then cut up his body and stashed the pieces in a backpack and under a bed in their Skid Row hotel room. Edward Garcia Jr., 36, and Melissa Hope Garcia, 25, who also goes by the name of Melissa Turner, are considered armed and dangerous. The couple from York, Pa., had several previous arrests for robbery in that state, and investigators believe they were trying to rob Herbert Tracy White of Hollywood when he was killed Thanksgiving weekend in a room at the Continental Hotel. "Get these monsters off the streets," said Anthony DeMarco White the victim's brother.
- ROBERT JABLON