The Daily Tar HeelMonday, August 26, 19919
Suspects in Fla. campus killings may be indicted, say prosecutors
The Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Fla. A year after
terror gripped the University of Florida
campus, prosecutors have moved closer
to indicting two suspects in the grisly
slayings of five students.
Bells will chime and flags on public
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operation. Conversely, it is expected to
provide subsidies for the residence hall
system, once the bonds are retired."
Heyd said the University administra
tion had given him different informa
tion than what was provided in Kuncl's
memo.
"If Dr. Kuncl is right, then what
we've been told is wrong," Heyd said.
The UNC Facilities Planning Com
mittee would discuss the issues of South
Loop and Odum Village again at its
Thursday meeting, Heyd said.
buildings will fly at half-staff in this
college town Monday, a year after the
first two victims were found stabbed
and mutilated. A wreath is to be placed
on a graffiti-covered wall where the
names of the victims were painted last
August.
Prosecutors said Friday that a grand
jury will be empaneled Nov. 4 to hear
evidence against two men.
State Attorney Len Register will seek
indictments against prime suspect
Danny Harold Rolling, 37, and second
ary suspect Edward Lewis Humphrey,
19, said John Joyce, a spokesman for
the task force investigating the killings.
"Hopefully, we will secure an indict
ment on both of them," Joyce said.
The grand jury could issue indict
ments within two weeks, he said.
The murders focused national atten
tion on this northern Florida town of
85,000 during the first week of classes
last year and sparked intense fear among
students and residents.
"Our children were wonderful, lov
ing, beautiful, intelligent and delight
ful. ... Through the random, senseless
act of murder, weall lost so very much,"
the families of Sonja Larson, Christa
Hoyt, Tracey Paules and Manny
Taboada said in a statement released by
city police.
"If the murderer could somehow
come to the realization of the precious
lives he took from us, that would be by
far the ultimate of any punishment he
could suffer," the statement said.
In a separate statement, Christina
Powell's family thanked "the people of
Gainesville for all the lovely things you
are doing in remembrance of Christina
as well as the other victims."
The horror first struck Aug. 26, 1 990,
as students prepared for a new school
year. The bodies of Powell, 17, and
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Larson, 18, were found mutilated in
their apartment.
Hours later, a sheriff's deputy went
to Hoyt's apartment because she had
failed to show up for work at the Alachua
County sheriff's office, where she
worked on a dispatch desk. Hoyt, 18,
had been stabbed repeatedly, her de
capitated head displayed on a shelf.
Panic reigned, and many students
fled the campus. Others huddled in
large, anxious slumber parties or pur
chased guns, Mace and baseball bats.
On Aug. 28, the bodies of Paules and
Taboada, both 23, were found stabbed
to death at an apartment complex.
Four victims were students at the
University of Florida. The fifth, Hoyt,
was enrolled at nearby Santa Fe Com
munity College.
Rolling, from Shreveport, La., has
been in jail since September afterplead
ing guilty to holding up a supermarket.
He has since been charged with the
robbery of a Gainesville bank which
occurred in the middle of the killing
spree as well as robbery and burglary
in Tampa. Rolling also is a suspect in a
triple slaying in Shreveport.
Humphrey, a former University of
Florida college student, will complete a
22-month jail term Sept. 18 for the
beating of his grandmother days after
the slayings, said corrections depart
ment spokeswoman Paula Tully. -E
Since April, Assistant State Attorney
James Nilon has been reviewing the
evidence collected by authorities, who
have worked 1 20,700 hours on the case
and have received more than 6,000 leads.
The investigation has cost about $4.7
million, officials said.
All the slayings last fall occurred rti
off-campus apartments in southwest
Gainesville.
"I hear the dorms are the best wayo
go," John McGrath said. "I'mconcemed
about my safety, but it looks safe here.-
Kuwaitis question safety with Saddam
The Associated Press
KUWAIT CITY As the with
drawal of the last U.S. troops ap
proaches, Kuwaitis are increasingly
nervous about their nation's security
with Saddam Hussein still in power.
Disagreements between Persian Gulf
states have blocked efforts to fashion a
domestic and regional military network.
Meanwhile, the 3,700-member 11th
Armored Cavalry Regiment is sched
uled to begin leaving the emirate Sept.
1.
"You have to remember that Kuwait
was traumatized by the Iraqi invasion,"
said Khalifa al-Karafi, a member of the
advisory National Council. "People re
main very worried about Saddam."
After Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait on
Aug. 2, 1990, Kuwait's 20,300-mem-ber
military crumbled. A border buffer
zone is now patrolled by U.N. units and
Kuwaiti police, but there are reports of
Iraqis crossing the border to salvage or
smuggle weapons.
Anxiety peaked last week during the
Soviet coup. Banks were besieged by
Kuwaitis fearful that Soviet hard-liners
backing Saddam would replace Mikhail
Gorbachev, who supported the allied
forces that ousted Iraq from Kuwait in
February.
"We couldn't keep up with the de
mand for dollars," said a Kuwait City
money changer, speaking on condition
of anonymity.
"People thought that with Gorbachev
gone, the hard-liners would cozy up to
Saddam and he would come to Kuwait
again."
On Thursday.theday after Gorbachev
regained control of the Kremlin, some
members of Kuwait's advisory council
proposed negotiating 10-year military
base agreements with the United States
and Britain. Both countries rejected the
idea, saying they do not intend to main
tain ground forces in Kuwait.
Western diplomats and military offi
cials acknowledge Iraq has not given up
its long-standing claim to this oil-rich
emirate.
But they also believe Kuwait has not
taken all steps available to protect itself
or reassure the public.
As envisioned by the West, Kuwait
is to have a four-tier "security blanket"
a strong local army, a backup re
gional force, U.N. observers on the bor
der, and U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf1.
Yet Kuwait's Defense Ministry has
struggled to decide how to rebuild the
nation's 1 6,000-man army, whose ranks
were depleted with the departure; of
many non-Kuwaiti soldiers. '!
And attempts to put together a re
gional security force have failed amid
bickering over its size and its cost. V
Under a plan drafted in March, the
regional force was to have about 100,000
troops, with Egyptian and Syrian sol
diers backing up units from the six
nation Gulf Cooperation Council states
of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,
Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emir
ates. Now the eight countries are talking
about a considerably smaller force that
may not have a permanent base, but
would be organized on a standby basis.
The British Foreign Office said in a
statement it will not consider stationing
ground forces in the area. J ;
U.S. gulf forces are down to 38,600
from a peak of 540,000 during the war.
About 16,100 troops are on ships, and
the rest are in Kuwait and Saudi Ara&i'a.
Hatcher fled state with help from Sheldon!:
The Associated Press
TROY Three years after he el uded
law enforcement officers, Eddie Hatcher
has identified the man who helped him
flee North Carolina.
Hatcher said the late Bob Sheldon,
who owned The Internationalist book
store in Chapel Hill, helped him get to
New York in the summer of 1988.
"I was out of state before dark,"
Hatcher told The Chapel Hill Newspa
per in an interview from the Southern
Correctional Institute in Troy. "If it
hadn't been for Bob, though, I wouldn't
have got out.
"And I walked into Bob's store with
nothing. All I had was the clothes I had
on, an address book, a couple of pens
and a little pad."
At the time. Hatcher was on the run
after having his bond revoked. In com
ing weeks, he would face a federal trial
for taking 20 people hostage at The
Robesonian newspaper in Lumberton.
Hatcher claimed the takeover was an
attempt to provoke an investigation into
alleged corrupt practices of the Robeson
County justice system.
Sheldon, a political activist and nurse,
ran The Internationalist until he was
shot and killed while working there the
night of Feb. 21.
Hatcher had just met Sheldon a few
weeks before his bond was revoked.
"I was living in Raleigh, and as soon
as I knew that they had revoked it, I
went and got somebody. I said, 'Take
me to Chapel Hill.' Ididn't tell anybody
what was going on or anything. So, they
whisked me over to Chapel Hill."
Dropped off on Rosemary Street,
Hatcher walked a short distance to The
Internationalist.
When he went in, Sheldon was be
hind the counter. Afraid of being over
heard, Hatcher wrote out a message to
Sheldon which read, "I need to get out
of state. I need to get to New York. They
revoked my bond. !;
"He didn't look like he was haviug.'a
question. First he gave me another shirt
and a hat. We walked outside, and hrS
said, 'You go right down here to this
little Mexican place, Tijuana Fats. Xp'fi
go and get a table in the back and wait,
and I'll be down there in a bit.'" "fh,e
next day Hatcher was in New York with
money in his pocket.
"While he (Sheldon) was livingI
wanted to give him credit, but I was
always wondering whether they would
arrest him for helping me escape and all
that," Hatcher said. ,s .
After leaving Chapel Hill, Hatcher
made it to a tribal reservation in Ndw
York. He returned in time for his federal
trial and was acquitted of all charges
Later, state charges were brought
against him in connection with the sarhe
incident, and Hatcher pleaded guilty to
those. He is serving an 18-year sen
tence. 'L,n
Hostage situation forces 150 inmate transfer
The Associated Press
TALLADEGA, Ala. Authorities
on Sunday moved 150 inmates out of a
federal prison where a group of Cubans
who came to the United States in the
1980 Mariel boatlift took 10 people
hostage on the eve of being deported.
Roger F. Scott, warden at Talladega
Federal Correctional Institution, refused
to say if the inmates were taken from
buildings adjacent to the 200-prisoner
high-security unit controlled by the
Cubans.
An end to the ordeal that began
Wednesday was nowhere in sight, he
said. He and another prison spokesman
declined to give details about negotia
tions with the hostage-takers.
"We plan to continue communicat
ing with the Cuban detainees ... in
hope of reaching a peaceful resolution,"
said prison spokesman Ed Crosley.
The besieged unit holds 121 Cuban
and 18 non-Cuban inmates in addition
to the hostages.
Scott said the prison workers taken
hostage were unharmed, based on face-to-face
meetings with six of them and
reports on the four others by their cap
tors. Transferring 150 inmates from the
prison reduces the general population
to 8 1 2, said Dan Dunne, spokesman for
U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Scott said that
will make it easierto manage the prison,
which has operated at a higher security
level since the takeover began.
Scott wouldn't say where the inmates
would be taken.
Non-rebelling prisoners have been
allowed out of their cells only for show
ers. "The inmates have been extremely
cooperative," Scott said.
Scott refused to give any information
about conditions under which the hos
tages are being held. Three women are
among the captives.
Prison officials continued to keep
reporters and the public away from the
unit, about 40 miles east of Birming
ham in the rolling, pine-covered hills of
central Alabama.
Only the top of the inmate-controlled
building is visible from a hill outside
the prison grounds.
Thirty-two of the Cubans were sched
uled for deportation to their island home
land the day after the uprising began.
and their fight against a return to Curia
is apparently central to the crisis.
Prison officials have not said what
prompted the takeover. But Dunne said
the deportations "may be part of the
negotiating process."
The Cubans were among 125,000
who came to the United States in an
exodus from the port town of Mariel.
Cuba, in 1980. They were imprisoned
and ordered deported for committing
crimes in the United States, including
murder, robbery and sex and drug of
fenses. More than 30 of the 121 Cubans at
Talladega participated in anti-deporta--tion
riots in 1987 at federal prisons in
Atlanta and Oakdale, La. Since then,
the Talladega prison has been the final
stopping point for Cuban inmates bound
for Cuba on deportation flights. '
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