"Very interesting information" received last week has given borough police new leads in the 1987 murder of University senior Dana J. Bailey, one officer said yesterday.

Fourteen people have contacted the State College Bureau of Police Services with new information since authorities released details of the two-year-old murder during a Feb. 23 news conference, said criminal investigator Thomas Jordan.

Police called the news conference because they had run out of leads in the case and were hoping to rekindle local response to the crime, Jordan said.

Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the date Bailey, then 21, was found stabbed to death in her Allen Street apartment. Last month, police said Bailey's killer stabbed the health planning and administration student with her own steak knife.

"Some people knew some other people who did some bizarre things at the time this occurred," Jordan said of the new information received last week.

He said informants last week provided names of people hanging around the area at the time Bailey was killed who displayed "peculiar behavior."

Jordan said it was too early to tell if the new information would lead to an arrest.

"(The information) is very interesting and we're going to take the time to check it all out," he said.

The new leads came as a result of last month's news conference in which authorities revealed Bailey's killer stalked her from an abandoned apartment above Ben and Jerry's - now merged with Graham's - at 124 S. Allen St, Jordan said.

A criminal profile of the killer prepared by the FBI described him as an unkempt white male between the ages of 20 and 26 who may still live and work in the area. The man may have known Bailey casually before the killing, according to the profile.

Sam Bailey, the victim's father, said the new information could lead to an arrest, but he declined to speculate on the chances his daughter's killer might be found soon.

"I'm not a policeman or a psychologist," Bailey said in a telephone interview yesterday. "The police are working on it. I can't really help them on it."

Authorities said last month they have five main suspects in the case. Three are local residents, one lives out of town and one is unaccounted for, Jordan said.

Jordan said police have eliminated as a suspect Gregg Greenberg, Bailey's fiance, who talked to her by phone on the night of the murder.

State College police have been in contact with the producers of "Unsolved Mysteries," an NBC television show that dramatizes large-scale crimes, about the possibility of a feature on the murder, Jordan said.

"We just indicated to them that we would be interested in talking to them," Jordan said. "But we haven't heard back from them yet."

The show's producers initially contacted borough police about nine months ago, but authorities at that time felt they could not divulge the information required by NBC, Jordan said.