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Tape recording of deaths
used to help convict killer
United Press International
BROWNSVILLE — Jurors
ho listened four times to a ter-
ying tape recording of the
siting deaths of two people
nored defendant Paul Wolfs
yer iandmj jims of insanity and sentenced
worstp® im t0 iif e j n prison.
Wolf, 21, was convicted
programsi [ednesday for the beating-
looting death of school teacher
iticia Castro. The jury gave
jm the maximum sentence of
ucauon, a | e i n pn SO n.
proposing: Three times in the trial the
amtobeit' r y listened to a 23-minute tape
ership ali wording made by Castro’s fian-
je, Billy Staton, as he too was
aten to death last July 16 at
lolfs farm house near La
Ida.
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The jury heard the tape one
more time during its verdict de
liberations.
The tape, intended by Staton
to be used for evidence in a child
custody battle with his ex-wife,
Sherry Wolf, recorded the
sounds of the blows Wolf admit
tedly delivered to Staton with an
iron bar in the living room of the
Wolfs’ home instead.
South Texas law officials
found the recorder when the
bodies of Staton and Castro
were found in a drainage canal
three weeks after the killings.
The tape was sent to the FBI in
Washington to determine if
there was anything on it of use in
the case.
The FBI found what District
Attorney Rey Cantu told jurors
was “23 minutes of death.”
Staton could be heard moan
ing, the blood in his lungs gurg
ling as he was dragged from the
house and dumped in the trunk
of a car. A faint shotgun blast,
the one which killed Castro who
was also beaten, can be heard on
the tape.
Cantu, who played parts of
the tape yet again during the
punishment phase of the trial
Wednesday, said without it, get
ting a conviction would have
been more difficult.
“In most murder cases the
only witness you have is dead
and the only thing you have is
what the defendant tells you,”
he said.
“I know of no other trial
where evidence such as this was
supplied by one of the victims.”
Cantu said he will use the tape
again, if admitted as evidence, in
the Wolfs’ separate trials for Sta
ton’s death. Mrs. Wolf is to be
tried in July. Wolfs trial has not
been set.
Wolf had maintained during
the eight-day trial he was inno
cent by reason of temporary in
sanity of killing Castro and Sta
ton, both 26, because he could
no longer take his stepdaugh
ter’s crying when she had to
leave with her father on court-
appointed visits.
Wolf showed no emotion
when the verdict was read.
Officials
fear police
imposters
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Two re
cent burglaries of stores that
provide police uniforms and
badges have authorities con
cerned about possible police im
posters, Deputy Chief Marion
Talbert said Thursday.
Last January, burglars took
several police uniforms in va
rious stages of completion from
Sugarman’s Uniform Store, and
a March 22 burglary of Sim-
mangs Engraving netted about
40 police, fire and sheriffs de
partment badges.
“We’re concerned, but we
don’t consider it a critical thing,”
Talbert said.
Talbert said people had tried
to impersonate San Antonio
police officers in plain clothes
but never in a uniform.
Opponents rap jobs plan
letted prsi
declined
•ease tola
salaries
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House passes welfare bill
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I United Press International
JAUSTIN — The sponsor of
an on-the-job training program
welfare recipients says his
i could save the state $9 mil-
ayear in welfare payments,
(opponents called the prop-
“derneaning and dehuma-
mg.”
The legislation, approved by
le Texas House on a 101-45
teWednesday, would initially
get 5,000 of the 90,000 Tex-
who receive assistance under
Aid to Families with Depen-
mt Children’s Program.
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Rep. Gerald Geistweidt, R-
Mason, said his program could
break the cycle of welfare de
pendency and save the state $9
million a year.
“Let’s help the people get out
of the hole we helped put them
in by not giving them alterna
tives,” Geistweidt said.
Under the program, a wel
fare recipient would be required
to take a job in the public or pri
vate sector under a two-month
arrangement where the reci
pient would continue to receive
all welfare payments.
During the next four months,
AFDC payments would be
switched to the employer as a
subsidy for the job training. The
state would pay for child care
and transportation during the
six-month period.
However opponents, mostly
black and Hispanic lawmakers,
said the plan would not work.
Criss, D-Texas
program could
Rep. Lloyd
City, said the
create a situation where em
ployers would fire current work
ers to replace them with welfare
recipients at cheaper wages.
“This is welfare for the em
ployers,” he said. “It does no
thing to help welfare mothers in
any shape or fashion.”
Rep. Ron Wilson, D-Houston,
said “I think this bill is demean
ing and dehumanizing, among
other things.*’
Proponents hope the trainee
would wind up with a perma
nent full-time job.
If the pilot program is suc
cessful, it could be extended
statewide in two years.
United Press International
HOUSTON — A Navy
etoffthcfi desman said four Soviet
^ ips idled within 50 miles of
isaidtheil stern Louisiana recently, but
., of the to ^mistaken when he said the
uions and*
ion alter
myi
sk force came that close to the
xas-Louisiana border.
“I was in error by including
learea,” said Navy Lt. Aaron
from
g with a 41 )n § by telephone fror
" saidjin as hington, D.C. Wednesday
ector oft “They didn’t come within 50
I Tobaccoi ‘* es of Texas. They came with-
iVorth i ^ 5C) miles of eastern
5 obviouslif uisiana .” he said -
Long previously was quoted
ill of tk
its have
on fortesi
as saying the ships came within
50 miles of the Texas-Louisiana
border.
The spokesman said the ships
traveled in international waters
along the U.S. coast east of
Texas at one point during a
three-month visit to Cuba. He
said the ships operated in the
Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mex
ico from Nov. 25, 1982 until
Feb. 1, 1983.
The task force consisted of
four ships, including a missile
cruiser named the Admiral Isa
kov, a frigate named the Resvyy,
a tanker and a submarine, said
Pentagon spokesman Bill Rable.
“One of the primary objec
tives of the task force visit was to
show the flag, as they do
periodically. They were in Cuba
for a while and in Cuban waters
for most of their stay,” Rable
said.
Long said ships of any nation
can legally travel international
waters, which lie beyond the 3-
mile territorial limits of the Un
ited States. Officials said such
trips close to adversary nations
are routine.
“If those aren’t seagulls ... were in trouble.”
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Teen threatens
Dallas officer
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United Press International
Nxon 6 CEDAR HILL — A suburban
Wednd teenager who threatened
. t0 make g to shoot an officer in the lobby of
f their Di7 e P°lke station because he was
itationsfolP stressed ” over being expelled
, of the school was being held in
n awed ® u °f a $100,000 bond Thurs-
|y, officials said,
i Kevin Allen King, 17, of De-
oto walked into the lobby of the
Won at about 3:45 p.m.
[ednesday carrying a .410-
# huge shotgun and asked for an
liilf’ [ficer, sa d Sgt. P.C. Hambrick.
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When investigator Jimmie
Johns came into the lobby, the
youth pointed the shotgun at
her and threatened to “blow her
head off,” Hambrick said.
King then walked out of the
building and into the parking
lot, where four officers con
vinced him to put down the gun
and arrested him, Hambrick
said.
King was held at the Dallas
county jail. Cedar Hill Municip
al Judge Robert Jealouse set
bond at $100,000.
Police later discovered the
gun was not loaded.
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