Post Office Murders

FOR A YEAR, THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE SEEMED TO have left behind its most disturbing problem: a decade-long string of killings (31 in all) by employees. The respite ended Thursday. In Dearborn, Michigan, Larry Jasion, upset at losing a promotion to a woman, killed one co-worker and wounded two others before killing himself. Later that day in Dana Point, California, Mark Richard Hilbun returned to the post office from which he had been fired and killed a letter carrier and wounded a clerk. He was arrested at a bar, about 20 miles north, early Saturday morning. Police said Hilbun is suspected of killing his mother, whose body was found at her home the day of the post office murder, and of shooting four other people before he was apprehended.