Slayings may be tied together WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — The lowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation is studying a “possible correlation’ between two recent slayings in Waterloo and a pair of unsolved deaths in Waverly in 1975 and 1976. Michael Earl Moses, 25, of Waterloo, is being held in lieu of $1 million bond on a first- degree kidnapping charge in the abduction of one of the vic- tims, Patricia Ann Kniss of Wa- terloo. The Associated Press erro- neously identified the man Thursday as Earl Moses, 25. No arrest has been made in the second Waterloo slaying, and police have declined to say whether the two cases are con- nected. BCI Agent John Tinker of Ce- dar Falls said, “We are aware of some possible correlation” between the Waterloo slayings and the Waverly deaths of Lisa Peak and Julia Ann Benning. “In the last one (the Kniss death), the most obvious sim- ilarity is that she was taken to a remote area, taken out and dumped,” said Tinker. “If noth- ing else, there's the location. We're only 13 miles from Wa- verly."" Mrs. Kniss’ nude body was found shortly before midnight last Sunday just off a gravel road in southwest Waterloo. An autopsy has been completed, but authorities have not made the results public. On March 30, Debora Lane, 24, was Slain at her home about 19 blocks from the Kniss resi- dence. Her throat was slashed. Ms. Benning, an 18-year-old Waverly cocktail waitress, dis- appeared the day after Thanks- giving in 1975. Her nude body was found four months later in a ditch near Shell Rock. Ms. Peak, a 20-year-old soph- omore at Wartburg College in Waverly, was last seen alive - Sept. 26, 1976. Her body, also naked, was found the next day in a ditch near Waverly. Authorities said both women had been strangled and prob- ably sexually assaulted.