3-23-1979 RUDY BLADEL SUSPECTED by Indiana and Michigan police as being the Conrail killer, walks from the Elkhart County Courts Building flanked on either side by Elkhart police detectives Lt. Burt Schmuhl (left) and David Keck (right) shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday. Behind Bladel are two of three Jackson, Mich., detectives who came to Elkhart Thursday with Jackson County prosecutor Edward Grant to pick up Bladel on a fugitive from justice warrant. Bladel later was booked in Jackson and charged with the New Year's Eve shotgun slaying of three Conrail employees in Jackson. Story on page 1. Elkhart Truth photo by Larry Tebo.