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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1980
‘Lipstick’ murder victim state
described as Very lonely’
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DALLAS — A 28-year-old woman
found strangled in her bedroom near
a lipstick-scrawled message to her
husband was a quiet, “very lonely”
person, a neighbor said.
Police Wednesday questioned
neighbors of Debra Martinson, look
ing for motives for the slaying of the
woman. Her attorney husband,
Don, found her sprawled nude —
her hair still in curlers — in their
$200,000 split-level home Monday
when he arrived home from jury
duty.
The words “Now we are even
Don” were written in pink lipstick on
a full-length mirror in the bedroom
and Mrs. Martinson’s clothes were
found arranged in a neat path leading
into the room. An autopsy indicated
she had been dead five to seven
hours when her body was found.
A police officer said investigators
had questioned “anyone who could
tell us anything about it.”
“We’ve got several leads that
we’re checking out and checking a lot
of different angles,” he said.
Sgt. Gus Rose said the purpose of
the mysterious message still had not
been determined.
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“We can’t discount it since it was
there,” he said. “It was there for
some purpose but we don’t know if it
was for a diversion or not.”
Neighbors described the Martin
sons as almost reclusive but indi
cated Mrs. Martinson seemed
lonely.
system called ‘folly’
“I saw her enough times to count
on one hand and I saw him even
less,” said Marty Dale. “I think she
was probably very lonely. She was
left alone so much.”
Another neighbor, who asked not
to be identified, said, “We really
don’t know Don. He never seemed
to be home very much. I think De
bbie was really very lonely much of
the time.”
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AUSTIN — Rep. Buddy Temple,
D-Diboll, Wednesday accused Rail
road Commissioner John Poerner —
the man he is challenging in the
Democratic primary — of proposing
a rail system connecting Dallas-Fort
Worth, Houston and San Antonio
without providing accurate informa
tion.
Poerner has proposed a “Japanese
bullet train” linking the three metro
politan areas. He said the system
would cost $6 billion but would net a
profit of $1.5 billion a year.
But Temple disputed those figures
at a Capitol news conference.
He said the 750-mile rail system
and the supertrains would cost a total
of $20 billion. Temple said the $1.5
billion profit figure is also erroneous.
“To have a gross income — not
profit — of $1.5 billion a year would
require 45 million passengers a
year, ” he said. “To have a $1.5 billion
profit, assuming 10 percent profit on
sales volume, would require at least
450 million passengers a year — 30
times the population of Texas.
“Simply put, Poerner’s proposal is
a folly.”
Temple said Poerner did not pro
vide information on how the rail sys
tem would be financed.
“It is a boondoggle,” he said.
Temple also said there are two
proposals under consideration to im
prove Amtrak rail transportation in
Texas. He said one proposal calls for
the spending of $200 million to im
prove road bed, tracks and operating
equipment to allow speeds of up to
79 mph.
The other proposal calls for the
spending of $1.2 billion to acquire
new right-of-way in some areas,
build new track, rebuild old trad
and purchase new high-speed equip-!
ment. He said the state and theDe
partment of Transportation would
share in the cost if either one of the
proposals is implemented.
Temple said he realized thataraj
passenger transportation system
could not be profitable because a(
the huge capital outlay and preseal
competition, but said a backup sys
tem needed to be implemented,
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