Laser fingerprinting unit aids nun murder probe in Texas
In Amarillo, Texas, investigators using a rare argon laser system at Potter County Sheriff’s office seek prints from a convent room where 76 year old Sister Tadea Benz was beaten, raped and strangled on Halloween. Texas Tech physicist E Roland Menzel assisted as partial prints appeared on a wooden knife. FBI crime lab tests continue.
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Associated Press
Amarillo
FBI
Washington
Jimmy Davis
Texas
United States
Potter County
Sheriff's Department
Tadea Benz
St. Francis Convent
T.L. Baker
Texas Tech University
E. Roland Menzel
Menzel
Biker artist captures Easy Rider image on canvas
Simon Garcia known as Guss, 44, of the San Jacinto High Rollers Motorcycle Club, paints impressions of weekend Hill Country rides. A retired Air Force veteran, he says club members are professional people not tied to gangs, challenging Hollywood stereotypes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mack Sisk
Associated Press
San Antonio
Simon Garcia
San Jacinto
Air Force
Gypsies
Dragons
Texas Travelers
The
Bandidos
Hell‘s Angels
Funeral notices from Odessa area list multiple services
Funeral services for Mattie Gertrude Ball Chester Collins Raymond Francis Vaughn Clio Parrott Lorena McCrury Grady Forbes and Hazel Edrington are scheduled across Odessa Plainview Andrews and Kermit. Survivors include spouses children and siblings with burials set at Parklawn Memorial Gardens Antioch Cemetery Sunset Memorial Gardens Andrews Cemetery and Kermit Cemetery. Arrangements are handled by Lemons Hubbard-Kelly and Jackson Funeral Homes with pastors officiating.
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Plainview
Mattie Gertrude Ball
W. 39Th
Odessa
Lemons Memorial Chapel
Joe Billy Byars
Fort Worth
Parklawn Memorial Gardens
Central Plains Regional Hospital
Childress
Dumas
Vernie Charles Ball
Gainsville
Ball
Four Square Gospel Church
Reba Buckner
Cindy Bybee
W.C. Ball Jr
Woodward
Okla
Red Stafford
Burkburnett
Tate Stafford
Leonard Stafford
Princeton
Bob Stafford
Madill
J.W. Arayels
Mesquite
Paul Dickerson
Lemons Funeral Chapel
Raymond Francis Vaughn
22Nd St
Terrace Hills Baptist Church
Bill Sheffield
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Vaughn
Medical Center Hospital
Rinard
Ill
Jean Bennett
Olney
Patricia Ray
Gary Vaughn
Ventura
Calif
Russell Vaughn
Pensacola
Fla
Fern DeLance
III
Illinois
George Davis
Flora, Ill
Clio D. Parrott
Hubbard-Kelly
Geraldyne Dunagan
Herbert Neff
Phoenix, Ariz
Andrews
Lorena McCrury
United Pentecostal Church
Bill Stroud
B.H. Hill
Bible Baptist Church
Andrews Cemetery
Permian General Hosital
McCrury
Bogota
Charlie
C.J. McCrury
Dalton McCrury
Somerset
Henry McCrury
Lexington
Kermit Memorial Hospital
Brownwood
Community Church of
Kermit
Laguna Hills
Lillian Magendia
Elenor Brooks
Cooper Funeral Chapel
Personal notices highlight marriages and divorces across the region
Marriage applications list pairs including Guyton and Jarrell, Lopez Gonzales and Saenz, Estrada and Marquez, Stamper and Frailey, Armendariz and Rios, Boggs and Armstrong, Wilson and Bellino, and Cortez Jr. with Romo. Divorce suits cite Newtons, Adams, Burnetts, Hoskins, and Carrascos. Births and hospital admissions for multiple families are noted, with obituaries and funeral arrangements for local residents.
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Thomas Hickman Guyton
Brenda Buie Jarrell
Santos Lopez Gonzales
Mary Lou Saenz
Maura Estrada
Margarita Marquez
Billy Deen Stamper
Linda Dariene Frailey
Jorge Luis Armendariz
Maria Michelle Rios
Jeffrey Ray Boggs
Pamela Darlene Armstrong
Joe Samuel Wilson
Donna Adean Bellino
Pedro Pena Cortez Jr
Laura Catalina Romo
Sierra Club trip to McKittrick Canyon Sunday
The Permian Basin Sierra Club will travel to McKittrick Canyon Sunday with a 7 am carpool leaving the Odessa College parking lot and return by 9 pm. Meet at 6:45 am in front of the Administrative Wing. Hikers may join at 10 am in McKittrick Canyon parking lot. contact Florence Milo or Jeannie Ross for details. ODESSA POLICE Nov 5 reports.
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Permian Basin
Sierra Club
McKittrick Canyon
Odessa College
Florence Milo
Midland
Jeannie Ross
Western star Pat Buttram speaks at UC on campus
Pat Buttram humorist Western actor and writer will visit Odessa College on November 17 for a free program and lecture. He known as Gene Autry's sidekick in 200 westerns and for seven years played Mr. Haney on Green Acres. He will discuss The Movies That Saved a Generation.
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Pat Buttram
Odessa College
Buttram
Gene Autry
Mr. Haney
Green Acres
Rolls Royce at Abilene charity auction headline
A $110000 Rolls Royce Silver Spirit will be shown and auctioned at the Joint Venture for Crippled Children's third annual sale at the West Texas Fairgrounds in Abilene. The auction starts at 1 pm on Monday and includes items from oil interests and the John J. Schaler III Collection Inc. of Midland. The International Petroleum Exhibition for Public Education will display the car Saturday with other petroleum industry displays. The Joint Venture for Crippled Children unites the petroleum industry with the West Texas Rehabilitation Center based in Abilene.
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Rolls-Royce
Crippled Children
West Texas Fairgrounds
Abilene
Rolls- Royce
John J. Schaler III
Trucker William Martinez Killed In Fort Stockton Crash
William Martinez 37 of Albuquerque New Mexico died in a two vehicle wreck a half mile south of Fort Stockton after his high speed tractor trailer hit a pickup driven by William Kennedy of Fort Stockton. The rig overturned and Martinez was pinned, pronounced dead at 6 PM.
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William Martinez
Albuquerque
N.M
Fort Stockton
Department of Public Safety
Martinez
William C. Kennedy
DPS
Man Arrested After Trucks Found With Animals In Cruel Plot
Merlin Ray Elliot, a Houston animal control volunteer, was charged with cruelty to animals after authorities uncovered two dogs, 11 puppies, and nine dead kittens in his truck. He claimed he killed animals to spare them from research and expressed a wish to work in euthanasia. He posted an $800 bond.
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Houston
Merlin Ray Elliot
Animal Control and Humane Organizations
Guy Clark
Animal Cruelty Enforcement Division
Ex-police deny brutality in McAllen case pleas
Five former McAllen police officers faced federal civil rights charges stemming from alleged beatings between 1977 and 1979. Contreras, Saldana, and Ybanez pleaded not guilty with bonds set at 10,000 each, as pretrial dates were scheduled for January 4, 1982.
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Brownsville
McAllen
U.S. Justice Department
James Harrington
American Civil Liberties Union
San Juan
Texas
Harrington
Federal Grand Jury
Roberto Ramos
Jaime Contreras
Alfredo Saldana
Tom Carter
Isidro Ybanez Jr
Washington
Pedro Dennett
Contreras
Carter
Saldana
Dennett
Ybanez
Ramos
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Mattie Ball
Chester Collins
Broughton
St. John Baptist Church
L.H. Hall
Antioch
Dimebox
W.D. Rodney
Collins
Brest
Panhandle
D.A.V
V.F.W
Mr. Collins
Johnnie Mae Oliver
Dimmitt
Chester V. Collins
Austin
Lyn Collins
Englewood
Charlotte Collins
Johnny R. Stanfield
Little Rock
Ark
Bessie Garcia
Ruby Gilmore
Oceanside
Delmar Collins
Vernon Collins
Aoril Collins
Ed Collins
Delheart
Jackson Funeral Home
Raymond Vaughn
Clio Parrott
Grady Forbes
Grady G. Forbes
First Methodist Church
Marsden
Forbes
Lois Jagers
University of Oklahoma
W.B McWhirter
Carefree, Ariz
Eugene Forbes
Norman Grigsby
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Hazel Edrington
Hazel B. Edrington
Kermit Cemetery
Rodney Peacock
Garit
Wayne Newton
Sherry Lynn Newton
Charlies Gordon Adams
Jean Ann Adams
Norma Joyce Burnett
Ronald Eugene Burnett
Nancy Dianne Hoskins
William Brent Hoskins
Teresa H Carrasco
Henry B. Carrasco
Leonard B Fahlstrom
Sue Samson
Scotty J Wesley
Elizabeth Navarro
Librado Ortiz
Martin Chabarria
Michael Hoffman
Monahans
Michael S. Hoffman
Wilson-Miller
L. A. Pattillo
Ward Memorial Hospital
Mansfield
Ohio
Mike Hoffman
Julie
Misty
Angela Hoffman
Bloomington
Ind
Evadine Hoffman
Sheryl George
Smithville
Dorothy McCartney
Donna K. Herrin
Thurman M. Swart
Carolyn Gooch
Miles Fuller
Sharon R. Trantham
Lettie B. Faris
Winfred J. Hudgens
Jean Moten
Clyde Jordan
Virginia Gonzales
Hoffman Drive
Terry D. Jackson
Odessa Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Antonio Alvares
Pecos
Tracy Bickelbach
Antonio Galvan
Alton Gross
Joe Hough
Wayne Huffman
George Martin
Beechwood
Donald Patterson
Kelley
Greg Pitts
Cedar Creek
Edwin Poage
Manuel Ramon
Tom Green
Alfred Rougeaux
Lincoln
Farr
Andrews Highway
Bill Tatum
Washington Lane
Janie Lou Lunceford
W. 48Th Street
Boy’s Club
E. 13Th Street
Ike Issacs
Matthew G. Issacs
Glenda Ave
West 42Nd Street
Margeret L. Bruster
Tanglewood Lane
Bruster
Ector County
Oscar Armendarez Baeza
Mexico
Rolls Royce
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