Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, October 10,1983
Chicken restaurant
killings unanswered
Warped
by Scott McCuIli
United Press International
KILGORE — Authorities
agree the slayings of five area
residents abducted from a Ken
tucky Fried Chicken restaurant
last month was one of the worst
tragedies ever to hit east Texas.
Donald Maxwell, the father
of 20-year-old victim David
Maxwell, struggles along with
the others to comprehend why
anyone would want to kill five
people.
He said his only relief would
come with an arrest, so he de
votes a few houfs each day to
assist police in solving the mys
tery.
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“The type of investigation
I’ve been running is not going to
uncover anything,” Maxwell
told the Tyler Morning Tele
graph. “It’s more out of desper
ation than anything else.”
Maxwell said he believed his
son and Joey Johnson, a friend
of David’s and a restaurant em
ployee, knew their killers. The
killers acted on a pre-meditated
plan, Maxwell theorized, and
did not shoot the five to prevent
being identified as robbers.
“That doesn’t make sense,”
he said. “The way the system is
today, if they had gotten caught,
they would have gotten their
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hands slapped and they would
have been put back out on the
street.
“They were either very lucky
or very smart. I don’t know
which.”
Kilgore police, Texas Ran
gers and area sheriffs’ depart
ments continue to seek clues in
connection with the Sept. 23
slayings and robbery in which
$2,000 was stolen.
The bodies of Mary Tyler,
37; Opie Ann Hughes, 39; Max
well, Johnson, and Monte Land
ers, all 20, were found on a rural
road about 18 miles south of Kil
gore. Each had been shot in the
head.
About $50,000 in reward
money is being offered by Kil
gore merchants and Kentucky
Fried Chicken for information
leading to the arrests of any sus
pects in the case, but area law
men appear to be stumped in
their efforts to solve the case.
No leads or likely suspects
have emerged in more than two
weeks of investigation during
which time more than 100 peo
ple have been interviewed.
Maxwell has helped police
look for the personal effects of
the victims, who were stripped
of identification and jewelry.
“It’s extremely frustrating,”
he said. “You want to do some
thing but you don’t know what to
do.
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Vitamin overdose dangerous
Victim considers lawsuits
United Press International
DALLAS — A woman
flooded by telephone calls about
her recovery from a vitamin B-6
overdose that left her helpless
said she believes vitamin poison
ing is widespread and requires
immediate government atten
tion.
“Just on Thursday and Fri
day, I had about 800 phone calls
from people nationwide who’ve
been suffering the same wav I
did,” Diane Caldwell, a Dallas
businesswoman, said in a
weekend interview.
She said she was about 75
percent recovered from a loss of
sensory and motor response that
left her unable to care for her
self. The condition was caused
by massive daily doses of B-6.
Doug Dillon, a Dallas investi
gator for the Food and Drug
Administration confirmed the
agency is investigaung the case.
“We certainly are investigat
ing, but I can’t say what has
transpired,” he said.
Dr. Richard Tindall, a neuro
logist with the University of
Texas Health Science Center in
Dallas, said Caldwell’s case con
firmed a report in the New Eng
land Journal of Medicine in Au
gust connecting huge doses of
Vitamin B-6 with losses of feel
ing, and also indicated the high
doses could cause loss of motor
function.
“I suspect the problems
caused by overdosage of B-6 are
probably widespread, based on
the calls Diane and I have re
ceived,” Tindall said. He also
warned that abuse of the vitamin
as a way to rid the body of excess
water is potentially dangerous.
“I had a phone call from a
woman Thursday who had been
taking B-6 to get rid of water
during pregnancy,” he said.
“She asked what damage might
be caused to a fetus, if high dos-
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ages are responsible for such de
bilitating effects in adults. I
couldn’t answer her, but it’s a
frightening Question."
Linda Ohlandt, 38, of Napa,
Calif., called Caldwell Saturday
after reading about her re
covery.
“I’ve been taking a protein
supplement loaded with B-6 for
about two months, and I started
feeling so bad I had to quit my
job,” sne said. “I’ve been praying
about this, and when I read the
article, I felt like it was an answer
to my prayers.”
She said she discontinued us
ing the supplement after her
phone call to Dallas and planned
to send the label to Caldwell,
who plans to catalogue calls ab
out the vitamin.
Tindall said he did not favor
taking B-6 tablets off store
shelves, because they are useful
in proper dosages.
"You need 1 to 2 milligrams a
day of B-6. But health stores are
selling it in 1-gram tablets, and
the labels on the bottle recom
mend taking up to three tablets a
day. Three tablets is a dose at
least 3,000 times what the body
needs,” he said.
Caldwell said at a physician’s
recommendation, she began to
take up to 15 of the 1-gram tab
lets a clay last spring as a diuretic,
and then began to lose feeling in
her feet. She said her condition
deteriorated to the point where
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she could not pickupiB
“I lost one busincHinii
through hell,”shesaid. l:
died. I just wish somi
been there to tell rat »k|
doing wrong.”
She said she was cd|
last week by the Dallas^
the FDA and expect«lili|
cy to issue a warning m
dangers of high B-6 dost;
Caldwell said shtliait
considering lawsuits
met with an attomty ! j
dined to say who shti
target.
"If the FDA doesn't*!
thing, I’ll be filing suil|
them,” she said,
Caldwell said ashernf
worsened, she increait|
dosages of vitamin B-6,4|;
it might help her.
“It’s unbelievable tlit|i
went through becauset:|
min that’s being pushtdll
ery street corner ny aiBi
that claims it’s healthy < "iliB
Caldwell said she Ik!
ped taking the vitaminfE
simply because she was pn
many other medications
cided to take only whan
scribed.
She was improving, sti
when she learned Dr. 1
Schaumberg, of the [I
School of Medicinei:|
York, had reported that|
feeling was caused by B-tj
"Diane’s case confml
Dr. Schaumberg
and it raises two
concerns," Tindall said.' 1
no longer assume thatBji
in large doses. And wltf
pens with B-6 calls into
the assumption that am
water-soluable B vita:
safe in large doses."
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The following incidents
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Department on Friday:
ARREST:
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Coke Street for driving*t-
license was suspendi
discovered that the
wanted by the Departi
Public Safety for threet
tickets. He was taken to!'
County Jail.
TRESPASSING
• Two students were
sing in the Wofford Cai«
complex. University!'
escorted them from the it
RECOVERY:
• University Policert
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Main Drive. The vehicle*:
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