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GEORGETOWN — Henry
cc Lucas, who claims to have
led 100 women, has been
ed for the death of a fifth
male victim, an unidentified
oman whose body was found
Williamson County Justice of
Peace Bill Hill set bond at
D,000 Tuesday on the mur-
charge against Lucas. The
ody, found Oct. 31, 1975 near
eorgestown along Interstate
has yet to be identified.
Sheriff Jim Boutwell had
aveled to Montague last week
question Lucas and said then
would prepare charges
jainst the man believed re-
onsible for the deaths of up to
women killed along the inter-
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Lucas, 46, is jailed in lieu of
$1 million bond for the stabbing
death of an Ringgold woman,
80, whose ashes and remains
were found in the woodburning
stove of Lucas’ shack in nearby
Stoneburg.
He also has been charged with
three other murders involving a
girl, 15, he lived with, a woman
whose headless body was found
in Hale County in the Panhan
dle in February 1982 and a west
Texas woman, 46, strangled in
her mobile home in February
1981.
He remains a suspect in sever
al other cases in the state.
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El Vice President James Ebbinghaus.
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murders to Lucas increased
Tuesday to include the sheriffs
departments in Dallas and Be
xar counties.
Dallas County Sheriffs De
partment Detective Bill Mayes
said he will go to Montague next
week to question Lucas about
the slaying of Carol Blanchard,
22, of Dallas.
Mayes said Blanchard’s body
was discovered in the Trinity
River, 4 miles south of Seagov-
ille, Sept. 7, 1982. Her arms had
been cut off and her body was
severed at the waist.
“Near where the body was
found, we found a Styrofoam ice
chest covered in human blood,”
Mayes said. “We have finger
prints on the chest, and we’re
pretty sure they are the sus
pect’s.”
Mayes said he hoped to get
Lucas’ fingerprints Wednesday
from Montague officials.
Mayes said Blanchard was
known to have hitchhiked on In
terstate 35.
Philip Dryer said the slayings
were similar to those for which
Lucas has been indicted.
Lucas’ police record includes
burglary and auto theft convic
tions dating to 1954. He was
convicted in 1960 at Tecumseh,
Mich., of strangling and stab
bing his mother to death.
While under sentence for his
mother’s murder, he was treated
for five years in a Michigan men
tal hospital. Within six months
of his release in 1971, Lucas was
convicted of trying to kidnap a
teenage girl and was sent back to
prison until 1975.
Corrections officials
optimistic about plans
United Press International
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. —
Despite a myriad of problems
that still exist, the so-called crisis
in corrections is beginning to
wane, the director of the Nation
al Institute of Corrections said
Wednesday.
“You can’t ignore the indi
cators,” Allen F. Breed told the
closing session of the Southern
States Correctional Association’s
annual conference. “Things are
getting better. We must stop
being doomsayers because we
can accentuate the positive.”
More than 500 prison, parole
and criminal justice officials
from 14 states attended the
four-day convention, which fo
cused on problems of over
crowding, sentencing guide
lines, restitution and alterna
tives to imprisonment.
“The trends are moving in
the right direction,” Breed said.
“I predict that we will soon talk
with pride that we are part of the
helping professions.”
There is a renaissance occur
ring in the concept of helping
people after it became fadish to
debunk rehabilitation a few
years ago, he said.
“We have to hope offenders
can change,” Breed said. “With
out that hope, they become no
thing but animals and we be
come zookeepers.”
A Minnesota criminal justice
official told the SSCA delegates
Tuesday that his state’s 3-year-
old sentencing guidelines, which
have been touted as a model for
other states, look good on paper
but have been abused in prac
tice.
“This is not to imply that
guidelines and determinate sen
tencing are not an appropriate
step forward in sentencing re
form,” said Leslie R. Green, ex
ecutive officer of the Minnesota
Office of Adult Release. “Much
to the contrary, Minnesota has
taken the first step.”
Green, a former state parole
board chairman, said Minnesota
must now go further to remove
the inequity, inconsistency and
statistical illusions in the system.
Many states are considering
sentencing guidelines forjudges
to eliminate wide disparities in
punishment for the same crimes
under similar circumstances.
“It’s not a silver bullet, but it is
a reasonable alternative to the
structure that now exists,” said
Frank Sanders, director of the
governor’s Division of Public
Safety in South Carolina.
“Trying to control discretionary
sentencing is like trying to nail
Jello to a tree.”
DA claims
plotting to
defendant
kill him
United Press International
KERRVILLE — The district
attorney prosecuting a nurse
charged with murdering one
child and injuring six others by
injecting them with a muscle re
laxant accused the woman on
Tuesday of plotting to kill him.
Kerr County District Attor
ney Ron Sutton alleged during a
preliminary bond reduction
hearing that nurse Genene
Jones had her husband search
for someone to kill him, and that
she conspired with one man to
have him slain.
“That’s unbelievable,” Jones
said from the witness stand.
Jones has been in the Kerr
County jail since her May 25 in
dictment and has been unable to
raise money for her $225,000
bond. State District Court Judge
Murray Jordan refused her re
quest to have the bond lowered
to $45,000.
No charges have been filed in
the alleged murder plot, and
Sutton would only say it is under
investigation.
Jones is scheduled for trial on
the charge of murdering 15-
month-old Chelsea Ann McClel
lan on Sept. 6. She also has been
indicted on charges of injuring
the McClellan child and six
other patients of pediatrition
Dr. Kathleen Holland, but no
trial date has been set on those
charges.
Jones worked for Dr. Holland
during the six weeks in which
the deaths and injuries occured
last fall.
The indictments accused
Jones, a licensed vocational
nurse, of injecting the children
with a powerful muscle relaxant
— probably succinyl choline —
that can cause the heart and
lungs to stop functioning.
Sutton told the court he
learned of the alleged assassina
tion plot prior to Jones indict-
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ment. He identified the man she
allegedly conspired with as
Stuart King, but would not give
further details.
Jones acknowledged meeting
King, but denied talking with
him about having Sutton killed.
She said King was in his 60s or
70s and came to her mobile
home with a friend.
She said King “stayed about
an hour, I guess. We said ‘hello.’
That’s about it.”
Jones’ attorney, Joe Grady
Tuck, called Sutton’s charge “an
inflamatory courtroom state
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