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Thursday, Aug. 10, 1995 The Pantagraph The kids had three meals a day, brushed their teeth three times a day and had a bath at 7:30 p.m. every night. The house was spotless and my clothes were always clean and in the drawer. She was a perfect But he was living a LIS By MARY ANN FERGUS Pantagraph staff For the past three and a half years, Tina Dozier led a common life as a full-time mom as well as an undercover life as a wanted woman.

Late last month, both lives came to an end when an FBI agent knocked on her door in Lakeland, and started asking questions. Ms. Dozier, 28, was arrested that day July 24 on two counts of child abduction charges filed by federal and state authorities and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for fleeing with her children Kevin Alan, now 6, and Kady Michelle, 4. Ms. Dozier and her husband, Troy, were in the middle of divorce proceedings in December of 1991.

Troy Dozier of Farmer City had temporary custody of the children when he turned them over to Ms. Dozier for what was supposed to be a weekend visit But when he went to pick up Kevin and Kady on Dec. 8, 1991, in St Louis, a relative told him Ms. Dozier and the children were gone. Dozier would lose sleep, travel miles and publicize his case while searching for his children for the next three years and 229 days.

Friends and acquaintances in Florida say they came to know Ms. Do yy i ll a kl i ,1 4. 'nV i V. i V. I 4 k.

JS. -i- zier in the spring of 1992 as a single mom with two children. In Lakeland, Ms. Dozier went by the name "Barbara O'Hanlon" and she called her children "Alan" and "Kathy." She and her children lived in a 900-unit apartment complex on the south side of Lakeland, a city of almost 200,000 known for its 'Once some friends sat and talked. We all kind of agreed there was something she was hiding, but we didn't know Christine Turner, neighbor Above: Kevin and Kady Dozier shared a bunk bed in a bedroom in Lakeland, where they lived for the past three years with their mother, Tina Dozier.

At left: Tina Dozier cut watermelon for her children, Kevin and Kady, foreground, and Katelynn and Robert Bull while on a camping trip. Ms. Dozier often took fishing and camping trips with her boyfriend, John Bull, and his children. orange groves and many citrus processing plants. Lakeland is a 30-minute drive from Disney World between Tampa and Orlando.

The 4-year-old Carlton Arms complex features two swimming pools, four tennis courts, a sauna and a gym with exercise equipment and basketball court While friends at the complex were shocked Ms. Dozier was arrested, many had suspected she was hiding from something. Some had noticed odd things about her; she didn't have a checking account, her son didn't go to school and she didn't go out much. John Bull noticed these things too but that didn't stop him from falling in love with Tina Dozier. Bull, a maintenance supervisor at the complex, figures it was in the late summer or fall of 1992 when he met Ms.

Dozier as his children played with hers. Bull had just gone through a divorce and had weekend custody of his two children, Katelynn, 7, and Robert, 6. Bull and Ms. Dozier started dating going to the movies, dinner or doing things with their children together. Ms.

Dozier mostly wore jeans or shorts and T-shirts. She rarely wore makeup. Bull said he was attracted to Ms. Dozier's "down-to-earth personality and kindness." After Christmas of that year, Bull moved into Ms. Dozier's apartment Bull, 37, said Ms.

Dozier told him that she had a bad marriage and that she had fled with her children from Colorado. He said she did not tell him her real name or that police were looking for her. "When they came to pick her up, it was a total surprise," Bull said. "I about fainted in front of the FBI agent" Bull and Ms. Dozier had lived a happy, normal life together, he said.

He supported her and the children and she was a full-time mom and girlfriend who loved to bake and was attentive to domestic life. "The kids had three meals a day, brushed their teeth three times a day and had a bath at 7:30 p.m. every night," Bull said. "The house was spotless and my clothes were always clean and in the drawer. She was a perfect mother." Bull's two children often spent weekends with him and Ms.

Dozier. Their children played well together and the couple took family trips together to local amusement parks or camp and fishing sites. The couple and children also traveled within Florida, Alabama and Georgia on weekends because Bull plays in a Class Softball league. Bull said Ms. Dozier and he were well-suited for each other.

He doesn't care much about a social life, preferring the woods more than a party or mall. In Ms. Dozier's undercover life, Bull was a perfect match. "We were revolved around the kids," Bull said. "Between the two of us, we had four.

She wanted to see them happy. When they were happy, she was happy." Bull said he had a good relationship with Kevin and Kady. He said Kevin was a child who "would do anything to please who he was with" and Kady was a "mama's girl." But Bull realized there were parts of her life that Ms. Dozier was holding back. He noticed she was depressed at times but she never told him why.

And there were other things. Ms. Dozier said she was a Christian but never joined a church in Florida. She said she didn't send Kevin to school because she didn't have his birth certificate. Christine Turner, a resident of the complex, said Ms.

Dozier baby-sat her child for a year. See LIE, next page 5 i 1 1 S' if linnri Nurse in V-J Day photo says Florida man is the one It was Aug. 14, 1945, the Japanese had surrendered and Manhattan's Times Square was one big bawdy game of spin the bottle. One kiss would endure. In its Aug.

27 issue, Life ran the photo of the sailor and nurse, he 9 -f 4 in his Navy blues, she all in white. taking in a show at Radio City Music Hall. The show was stopped, the announcement was made, and everyone made a beeline to Times Square. After a couple of beers at a bar, Mendonsa said, he and Petry headed out for a walk. Muscarello, who with Shain is snaking the rounds of television news and talk shows, could not be reached.

He told the Associated Press he was "feeling pretty good after three beers a civilian bought me" and kissed several women. At any rate, somebody kissed someone, and Eisenstaedt made the world a voyeur. Dozens of men and women since have claimed to be the real thing. Life has this to say: "Eisenstaedt did acknowledge Edith Shain, but there was nothing to base it on," spokeperson Alex Keane said. "We're not trying to find out who the subjects in the photograph are, because the picture was taken to celebrate the day, not to promote these two people.

So many people have come forward, it's 11 By D. MORGAN McVICAR Knight-RidderTribune Service It is the unsolved mystery of the century: Who kissed whom in the middle of Times Square on V-J Day 1945 at the precise moment Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped his lens? The photo, which Life has reprinted often, has become one of the most vivid and enduring metaphors for the end of World War II. It made Eisenstaedt famous. And it sold millions of copies of Life. For years, Newport fisherman George Mendonsa has insisted he was the sailor and he says he has proof.

For years, Edith Shain has said she was the nurse and Eisenstaedt, agreed. But Life has recognized neither, and has no plans, despite the approach of the 50th anniversary, to try, finally, to identify the smoochers. Enter Carl Muscarello, a former New York City police detective. If this were the theater, the audience would be gasping. Muscarello, silent lo this half-century, has come forward and announced it was he.

nd Shain, gasp, says he's right Tiff 4 "ALU Lj i U.At jL' WE His right arm holds her at the waist, his left arm curls behind her head. Her right leg bends at the knee, her left foot is lifted from the ground by the sailor's strength. So as one are their faces that the features of neither is visible. Shain, now 77 and living in Santa Monica, says she was finishing a shift at Doctors Hospital when the radios carried the IN JT 1 Edith Shain Jf a ii' "i' "i "Hi ii in-'itfii Bin ii nn 1 1 1 news of the Japanese surrender. She grabbed a friend, dashed out of the hospital and onto the subway.

Mendonsa says he and his girl, Rita Petry, were AP Carl Muscarello says he's the man in photo. See PHOTO, next page.