CALIFORNIA Man charged with killing 2 in Hollywood

A former screenwriter and a doctor were slain.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Prosecutors charged a man with murder Wednesday in the beheading of a 91-year-old former screenwriter and the stabbing death of a physician in their neighboring homes.
Prosecutors said they would decide whether to seek the death penalty against Keven Lee Graff, 27, when the case gets closer to trial.
"These were obviously very gruesome murders," Police Capt. Al Michelena said. "At this point, we haven't found any particular motive."
Graff's attorney, Alan Budde, declined to comment.
Authorities allege Graff killed former screenwriter Robert Lees at his Hollywood home Sunday. Lees, who was blacklisted during the Communist scare of the 1950s, had several film and television credits, including episodes of "Rawhide" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."
Police allege that after the killing, Graff took Lees' severed head, climbed a fence and went to the home of Dr. Morley Hal Engelson, 69, who apparently was killed with his own kitchen knives while he was on the telephone making an airline reservation.
Spotted by guards
Graff was arrested Monday after security guards at Paramount Studios saw him acting oddly near the gates and recognized him as the murder suspect from a photograph televised minutes earlier.
A former Marine originally from Washington state, Graff had been living in his pickup truck and on the streets of Hollywood before his arrest, authorities said.
He previously lived with his brother in Fullerton and a girlfriend in Long Beach.