AIDS: Spreading Fear, Not Disease: Spreading Fear, Not Disease

Spreading Fear, Not Disease

A Dallas woman calling herself "C.J." sent a shock wave through the city last August when her letter appeared in Ebony magazine and described a meticulous campaign to infect men with the AIDS virus as revenge for having contracted the disease herself.

* Then last September, a woman who also identified herself as C.J. called Dallas radio deejay Willis Johnson and, with calculated fury, elaborated on the campaign. Johnson asked the caller if she viewed herself as a "serial killer" who "stalks" men. "They approach me. I don't approach them," she said in the gentle cadence of a Southerner.

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