Date:         Fri, 2 Sep 1994 17:25:46 EDT
From: PMDAtropos@aol.com


CDC AIDS DAILY SUMMARY 09/01/94.

"Researcher Says Florida Dentist Was Serial Killer"

Reuters (08/31/94)

Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard graduate researcher and authority in 
behavioral science, has conducted a three-year study on the Florida 
dentist suspected of transmitting AIDS to six of his patients.  The study 
is based on previously unreported medical and legal documents, as well as 
media and other interviews with the dentist, Dr. David Acer, and others.  
Horowitz's study, published in the professional journal "AIDS Patient 
Care," found that Acer shared many traits with known serial killers  
studied by the FBI.  Among those shared traits were social isolation, 
lack of demonstrated emotion, chronic lying, anger, alcoholism, 
pedophilia, sexual aggression, depression, self-mutilation, physical 
fetishes, and a dependent and extremely protective relationship with his 
mother.  The research suggests that Dr. Acer's patients were victims of 
"sexual homicide," in which their infection was motivated in retaliation 
against the U.S. Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease  
Control and Prevention; Acer had believed that both were responsible for 
infecting homosexuals with AIDS during an experimental hepatitis B 
vaccination program in the late 1970s.  Acer died of AIDS in 1990.