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m drug charges in February
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ny brother’s murder and my
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aid Joe Chagra, whose cross-
xamination was to resume
Thursday.
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ras to be moved to Corpus
hristi in preparation for to
days funeral at the Corpus
hristi coliseum.
Roloff and four of his follow-
i were killed early Tuesday
rhen the Cessna 210 he was
illoting crashed in Leon
mthenm County.
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of Charles Harrelson, accused
of being the triggerman in the
Wood slaying on May 29, 1979.
Also on trial are Jimmy Chagra’s
wife, Elizabeth, and Harrelson’s
wife, Jo Ann. Jimmy Chagra is to
be tried later on a murder
charge.
Joe Chagra said he also was
under the influence of cocaine
when he says Harrelson confes
sed to him in detail about
Wood’s murder.
“I think it definitely affected
my memory,” Chagra said of the
drug. “It affected my judgment.
It affected my personality.”
Chagra said the idea to kill
Wood arose after Jimmy, sche
duled for. trial on cocaine
smuggling charges, refused a
government plea-bargain to
plead guilty in exchange for 15
years in prison. Jimmy wanted
to plead guilty to two counts of
marijuana smuggling for 10
years, Joe said.
The plea negotiations broke
down a week before Wood was
killed, Joe said.
“Are you telling this jury you
and your brother Jimmy con
spired to kill Judge Wood over a
five-year differential in sent
ence?” asked Harrelson’s attor
ney, Tom Sharpe of Brown
sville.
“Yes, I am,” Chagra replied
after a long pause.
Then he said: “Jimmy’s main
reason for not accepting the plea
is that he would not accept a
cocaine count. The 15 years is
not what bothered him — it was
the drug involved.”
After Wood’s death, Jimmy
Chagra was tried by federal
Judge William Sessions, who is
also presiding in this trial, and
was sentenced to 30 years with-
howed nothing
ground suddenly, scattering
wreckage across a pasture three
miles north ol Normangee. The
wings and tail of the craft fell a
half-mile from the fuselage.
Also killed in the crash were
Elaine Wingert, 30, Roloffs sec
retary; Susan Lynn Smith, 29, a
teacher at Jubilee Home; Cheryl
Palmer, 24, a Roloff missionary
in Arizona; and Enola Slade, 25,
a counselor at Jubilee.
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Other evidence Wednesday
showed Elizabeth Chagra told
her husband the FBI had “hit it
right on the head” that she deli
vered a payoff for the slaying to
Harrelson’s stepdaughter.
The Chagras wrote notes to
each other during a 1981 visit at
the federal prison in Leaven
worth, Kan., because Jimmy
Chagra had learned the FBI was
taping all his telephone conver
sations and visits.
“If the FBI is just guessing,
how did they happen to hit it
right on the head about a PG
(pregnant) lady paying Teresa?”
one of Mrs. Chagra’s notes said.
Mrs. Chagra was eight
months pregnant at the time
prosecutors say she brought a
$250,000 payoff for Harrelson
to his stepdaughter, Teresa
Starr, at a Las Vegas, Nev., hotel
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