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- NATION, Page 37American NotesAIDSSpreading Fear, Not Disease
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- A Dallas woman calling herself "C.J." sent a shock wave
- through the city last August when her letter appeared in Ebony
- magazine and described a meticulous campaign to infect men with
- the AIDS virus as revenge for having contracted the disease
- herself.
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- Then last September, a woman who also identified herself
- as C.J. called Dallas radio deejay Willis Johnson and, with
- calculated fury, elaborated on the campaign. Johnson asked the
- caller if she viewed herself as a "serial killer" who "stalks"
- men. "They approach me. I don't approach them," she said in the
- gentle cadence of a Southerner.
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- Last week the mystery woman was found to be two people:
- one is a 15-year-old girl who lost a relative to AIDS and says
- she wrote the letter to focus attention on the disease; the
- other is a 29-year-old medical-school employee who says she
- called the radio station as a joke.
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- While the two maintain they were not working together,
- they jointly succeeded in giving Dallas a chilling and
- beneficial lesson about the risk of casual sex as a heterosexual
- conduit for the disease.
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