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<br />35 years after his murder,
<br />professor lives on in OF class
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<br />GAINESVILLE - On
<br />Labor Day weekend In
<br />1983, Howard Apple-
<br />dorrs neighbor noticedfess
<br />the celebrity proors
<br />back door was broken in,
<br />and It looked as though
<br />the house had been bur-
<br />gled.
<br />Appledorf, who had
<br />been honored by the Uni-
<br />versity of Florida as
<br />Teacher of the Year In
<br />1974 and Distinguished
<br />Lecturer in 1978, was best
<br />known as the "junkfood
<br />professor" for his defense
<br />of the nutritional value of
<br />fast food.
<br />GalnesAlle police re-
<br />sponded to the neigh-
<br />bor's mil. What officers
<br />found reads more like a
<br />scene from the 1980 hor-
<br />ror film The Shining than
<br />a robbery report.
<br />They found Appledorf
<br />dead on his much, bound
<br />and asphyxlated with his
<br />shirt off, a cigarette butt
<br />snuffed out in his stom-
<br />ach. Across his living
<br />room walls, the words
<br />"MURDER" and "RE -
<br />DRUM" had been
<br />scrawled in red. Beside
<br />the body, the murderers
<br />had laid out a dining set,
<br />apparently having eaten
<br />Subway while they
<br />watched Appledorf die.
<br />News afthe death rip-
<br />pled through Gainesville,
<br />and then the country,
<br />morphing as quicidy as it
<br />traveled: Appledorf had
<br />been asphyxiated with
<br />junk food, reporters
<br />wrote, a gruesome It m-
<br />age to his nickname. The
<br />murderers had written
<br />their messages In peanut
<br />butter; no -ketchup; It -
<br />red Ink. They had killed
<br />him with a frying pan
<br />while listening to Soft
<br />Cell's 1981 hit, -Tainted
<br />Love."
<br />Every version extend-
<br />ed the allure until the klll-
<br />ers gave themselves up in
<br />birarre fashion after leav-
<br />inga sloppy trail -driving
<br />Appledorrs ear and using
<br />his credit mrd. Who were
<br />these psychopaths?
<br />Gainesville soon found
<br />out, and the answers
<br />would shock the city's
<br />1980E conscience. This
<br />was seven years before
<br />the deaths of five stu-
<br />dents at the hands of
<br />Danny Rolling would
<br />snuff out my remaining
<br />civic naivete.
<br />Gary Bram, Paul Ever-
<br />son, and Shane Kennedy
<br />were a trio of gay prosti-
<br />tutes from San Francisco.
<br />They had traveled to
<br />Gainesville on Apple-
<br />dorrs invitation, staying
<br />with him at his lakefront
<br />home for two nights be-
<br />fore their attest for forg-
<br />ing his signature on a
<br />$900 check.
<br />While In jail, the three
<br />requested Appledorf pay
<br />their bond, threatening to
<br />contact a local reporter
<br />and out him to the com-
<br />munity if he didn t. Ken-
<br />nedy was only 15 year
<br />old, after all; would Aspiedorf's life ever return
<br />to normal If community
<br />members knew he was
<br />gay and that he had slept
<br />with a child?
<br />Appledorrdropped the
<br />charges. As a part of the
<br />agreement, the three
<br />were to leave Gainesville
<br />ma
<br />pernently. Instead,
<br />upon their release -while
<br />Appledorf boarded a
<br />plane headed for a con-
<br />ference In New York -
<br />they walked six miles to
<br />Appledorf's home.
<br />Two days later, after
<br />Appledorrs return, offi-
<br />cers would find his body.
<br />"It was gntte a shock to
<br />everybody and It was
<br />right at the start of the se-
<br />mester," recalls OF Emer-
<br />itus Professor and friend
<br />of Appledorrs, Robert
<br />Bates. After his death ...
<br />ng a L
<br />According to Bates,
<br />(sen ng t e es gner
<br />condoms, erotic art, and
<br />Appledorf had grown the
<br />leaves, loitering outside
<br />OF course, Man's Food,
<br />his studio, etc.) Kennedy
<br />from a "sleepy Little thing
<br />was committed to a Man -
<br />of IS students" to a wail-
<br />hattan mental hospital.
<br />list -only auditorium ler
<br />Bown and Everson still
<br />lure with over 100. It was
<br />live lneeLisatMartin Cot-
<br />o testament to his enthu-
<br />rectlonal Institution, a
<br />siasm as a teacher, sold
<br />prison in Martin County,
<br />Bates, that enrollment
<br />Florida.
<br />dipped so considerably
<br />Appledorf had served
<br />the year of his death.
<br />as a member of the facul-
<br />Without Howie, there
<br />ty in the Department of
<br />was just no draw," he
<br />Food Science and Human
<br />said.
<br />Nutrition since 1960. He
<br />The department would
<br />was a graduate of the
<br />eventually recover, and
<br />Massachusetts institute
<br />Mans Food today brings
<br />ofTechnology with a
<br />In hundreds of students
<br />Ph.D. in nutrition. He
<br />each year. Its appeal be-
<br />tame to OF following
<br />gan with Appledorf.
<br />post-doctoml work at the
<br />In the months that fol-
<br />University of Calffomia,
<br />lowed Appledorrs death,
<br />Berkeley, according to a
<br />Bown and Everson re-
<br />biographical note by the
<br />ceived life sentences for
<br />George Smothers Libras -
<br />murder. But Kennedy, be-
<br />In at UF.
<br />muse he had left the
<br />The story of his death
<br />house during the murder
<br />survives in True Crime
<br />to vomit, was only sen-
<br />retellings. But in Gaines-
<br />tenced to four years far
<br />vllle, there are a handful
<br />grand theft. After serving
<br />of people, like Bates, who
<br />his time, he returned to
<br />remember a friend in -
<br />Manhattan, where he
<br />stead ofe sensation.
<br />committed a series of
<br />'He was very bright,
<br />strange offenses, ranging
<br />very friendly, a great
<br />from trashing a Block-
<br />speaker," said Rates. 'He
<br />buster video display to
<br />really put this school and
<br />biting a chunk outofa se-
<br />this department on the
<br />rarity guard's leg. Even-
<br />map."
<br />tually, after multiple at -
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