Bill Pavelic - William Bill Pavelic

United Press International
September 3, 1987, Thursday, PM cycle

BYLINE: By AURELIO ROJAS
SECTION: Domestic News
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES

A prostitute charged with attempted murder for selling his AIDS-tainted blood and denying to a sexual partner that he had the disease told investigators he was aware of its fatal effects, a police detective testified.

‘’I know that AIDS can kill, but I was so hard up for money that I didn’t give a damn about other people,'’ Detective Bill Pavelic quoted Joseph Markowski as telling him after his arrest June 25.

Markowski, 29, is charged with four counts of attempted murder and six other felonies for having sex with a man and for selling his own blood to a Los Angeles plasma center June 22 for $9, then trying to do so again the day he was arrested.

‘’He stated that, ‘I’m aware that (blood bank) tests don’t always detect the AIDS virus, but when you have to survive you’ll do anything,”’ Pavelic testified Wednesday on the third day of a preliminary hearing to determine if the transient should be ordered to stand trial.

Pavelic said Markowski was arrested June 23 at a bank where he tried to grab the gun of a security guard who tried to halt his bizarre behavior.

Markowski was released the next day from the mental ward at County-USC Medical Center, where he had earlier been diagnosed as suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome. He was arrested a day later when he attempted to sell his blood at the same plasma center.

Pavelic said when Markowski was arrested, he told him, ‘’I lost $10 because you guys didn’t let me sell my blood. I’m broke.'’

Markowski also is charged with attempted murder for having sex with Paris Shaerell, 44, without telling him he had AIDS.
Shaerell was cited for contempt of court and ordered held indefinitely in the county jail by Superior Court Judge Alban Niles Tuesday after he refused to testify against Markowski.

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