Orange Leader, The (Newspaper) - May 9, 2003, Orange, Texas West Orange city council asking for grant for art ORANGE LEADER 128 129 May 2003 2 Sections 20 50 Cents Suspect leads authorities to body Goodman found after six days By Royal Hopper III The Orange Leader The body of Christy was found in an area in south Newton County six days after she was reported Orange County sheriffs cers said the man accused of killing her took investigators to the site two miles off a main It took the man six hours before he found the body about 2 There has been another tragedy in southeast We found Christy at 2 in the southern part of Newton Orange County Sheriff Mike White said Speaking at a press confer White said Richard Derek of Vidor had been flown from Arkansas accompanied by detectives from Saline County where he is being held on million bond for charges there including attempted capital White said Hoffpauir led deputies on a sixhour search aided by Port Arthur Police Department search dogs spe trained to find The officers found Goodman Christy Goodman in a wooded area off of County Road 822 in Newton five miles north of the Texas 62 and Texas 12 The roads in that area go from paved to and then to a dirt road in The area Goodman was found is infested with snakes and other wild ani Deputy Mike Sanchez said officers had to walk around He did not know whether the snakes in the area were Hoffpauir was accompanied the whole time by Arkansas He was taken straight from the Orange County airport and driven around the wooded rural Detective David Reeves of the sheriffs office said Hoffpauir took searchers on several wild goose chases before taking them to where Goodman was Investigators say Hoffpauir is the main suspect in the abduction and murder of She was last heard from May 1 about She was on the phone with her boyfriend at her Mauriceville home when someone stopped and asked her for help with a bro ken down her boyfriend told White said Thursday that Hoffpauir was considered as a suspect when witnesses reported seeing him in the trailer park on Linscomb Road that Arkansas authorities begin looking for Hoffpauir Saturday evening after he ran away from a car wreck on Interstate 30 near The wreck involved Goodmans black Mustang which had also been missing since she was reported miss White said the investigation was aided by Texas Orange and West Orange Newton County sher deputies and several police agencies in The evidence response team is also helping investi gate the site where Goodmans body was White said Hoffpauir is wanted in Newton County on arson charges but has not been charged in Orange Hoffpauir faces attempted capital murder and burglary charges in where he will likely stand trial first before he is extra to officials in Saline County Arkansas Hoffpauir is in jail for six charges in Arkansas including attempted capital murder in connection with the shooting of Darnel of Saline Ford was shot in the chest Sunday during an exchange of gunfire with an intruder in his Arkansas authorities arrest ed Hoffpauir Monday in the attic of an abandoned house in a rural Officers said he was nursing a gunshot wound to the buttocks when Sec Page 2A Lending a helping hand Courtesy Photo Little High principal Jim standing and West High principal Mike center in watch as WOS students Herman Jodie McClelland and Sarah Whitefield present a donation check to LCM student Kayla and her Kayla was seriously injured in a car wreck that killed her older sis Murder stuns quiet rural neighborhood By Royal Hopper III The Orange Leader Terry Young doesnt under stand how something like the disappearance and murder of Christy Goodman could hap pen in his quiet rural neigh This is There are cows across the street for heavens Its not sup posed to happened Young Young is a resident of Oak Terrace park on Linscomb Road near Mauriceville where Goodman Orange County sheriffs deputies say she was abduct ed there late May Goodmans body was later found in south Newton County near County Road 822 in a remote area infested with Linscomb Road where she lived is a street lined with sin some of them expensive brick There are large trees and sev eral ranches with cattle graz ing near the Down the street at Oak Christina Hunsucker said she will stop going out side to read late at night after her kids are She reads at night to relax but because of the she now doesnt find being outside at night Hunsucker was up late the night Goodman about the same time Goodman was reported to have been on the phone with her boyfriend saying someone had stopped to ask for help with a broken down That bothers Hunsucker even I have tried real hard to remember if I had heard or seen anything that was she The trailer park runs in a straight line with about 30 trailers to a Hunsucker lives several up the road from where Goodman was However sound she You can hear trash can lids closing and car doors shut Im sure I would have heard Hunsucker Unlike her Brandi Jones said she is not She moved her family from an apartment complex in Orange because Mauriceville was such a quiet You can walk down the street Jones If anything the park is even quieter she The who normally keep to are now sub See Page 2A Leader Online Please visit our website at Weather Partly Cloudy Today will Partly Cloudy with tempera tures reach ing the mid to upper 80s Index 2A Opinion Sports 138 Features Classified Pages 789 B l 8 Nurse orders up one satisfactory career By Amelia Feathers The Orange Leader Fifteen years ago Vicki LaComb traded her job as manager of a fast food restau rant for a career in prefers ing patients with good bed side manners than trying to figure out how people want their As head nurse of the inten sive care unit at Memorial Hermann Baptist Orange LaComb said she would rather try and help a patient than deal with some times unhappy or even threat ening Youd be surprised how angry people can get about a LaComb As the hospital honored staff during National Nurses Week to show appreciation for work was asked if she had any I make a lot more money plus I have a fulfilling she She said working at a fast food restaurant after graduat ing high school proved to be more stressful than Believe it or people want to kill you over a ham she After she quit the restaurant LaComb listened to her moth ers advice and studied The registered nurse found her nursing specialty niche in the intensive care unit after working in pediatrics for a while She prefers taking care of the seriously ill I didnt like pediatrics because I had to deal with parents from one extreme or the she There were parents who would get mad if you woke up sick children to do something to make them or parents who were scared to death to do anything for their chil dren In the took a care course work in f r v LaComb said Her Christian beliefs help her deal with grief when patients I remember the first time I stood beside the bed of a patient that just died and I thought at that very moment they were face to face with she She said being with dying patients in hospitals is a com forting contrast than for peo ple who die sometimes in nursing A mother of LaComb admits balancing home life and career is She said her stepson in with her and LaComb said shes grateful to have two helpful sisters who can help with Her husband works a shift so they plan days off She said her is mostly spent doing house work and grocery When were off for our seven days break together its like a mini she LaComb I dont need to see him more than and then laughed out She described her working relationship with Mary her coworker on the ICU as much like a mar Barbara critical care director at the jok ingly When they get mad at each other they say they are getting a Cloud said LaComb is a ded and dependable She has good rapport with patients and doctors and always goes above and beyond her job Cloud Leader photo by Amelia Feathers Vicki LaComb enjoys her work as an intensive care She said its better paying and less stressful than her previous job as a fast food restaurant
