Page 8/The Battalion/Monday, October 31,1983
Haunted house
held in basement
by Darla Bucaram
Battalion Reporter
Just listening to the eerie
organ notes from Bach's Tocca
ta and Fugue was enough to
make a few witches anti baller
inas ask their mothers to take
them home even before they
passed the gypsy fortune teller
who sold death passes to the en
vironmental design depart
ment’s haunted house Sunday
night.
And perhaps it was a good
thing, for the music was nothing
compared to the experience
awaiting the strange sorts who
made it through the narrow
black entrance at the basement
of the Langford Architecture
Center.
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Nobody was prepared for tne
ghost that came flying out of a
dimly lit hallway, but even less
were they ready to see the torso
of a man sticking out of the
ground, his intestines spreading
smoothly beneath his sliced
waist.
Since there always are excep
tions to the rule, a few people
were not too scared—or so they
affirmed—after coming out of
the haunted house.
One such person was 9-year-
old Justin McCue of College Sta
tion, who claims he even was
“scaring the monsters in there.”
Perhaps if you want to Find
out if you have the nerves of
steel that Justin does, you should
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try the environmental design
department’s haunted house
anytime from 6 to 1 1 tonight.
Special detective division
A&M cops solve crimes let
by Tricia Parker
Battalion Reporter
Although it may lack the
drama of Hill Street Blues and
the life and death confronta
tions faced by officers on “The
Hill,” the Texas A&M Univer
sity Police department does
have a criminal investigation
division.
The criminal investigation
division of the University
police, headed by Maj.
Josephine Hoelscher, is made
up of four plainclothes offic
ers, all proficient in finger
printing and composite
drawing.
Hoelscher and her small
staff investigate every stolen
bicycle, every missing wallet,
and every case of disappear
ing office equipment re
ported to the department.
The criminal investigation di
vision also investigates violent
crimes such as rape or assualt,
that although rare, do occur
on campus.
But Hoelscher says, “We
haven't had a problem with se
rious crime here.”
Last year, 70 liquor viola
tions, 26 assaults, 15 drug
offenses, two robberies and
one attempted rape in the
area were reported.
“Our biggest problem
here,” Hoelscher says, “is with
theft — theft of bicycles, bill
folds and money left in plain
sight. Students leave their
purses open and in plain view.
Someone just comes along
and picks it up.”
Thefts last year totaled
$225,425. Of that amount, bi
cycles accounted for $44,990,
miscellaneous books, plants
and construction materials
accounted for $52,615, office
equipment accounted for
$28,011 and radios and televi
sions accounted for $31,430.
Only $46,908 worth of the
property was recovered.
Recovering stolen property
is difficult because often it
takes victims of crime a few
days to realize they’ve been
robbed, Hoelscher says. Peo-
f )le think their belongings
lave just been borrowed until
they don’t show up for a few
weeks. By then, she says, it’s
hard to find a lead.
Inevitably there are cases
for which the division has no
leads. Detective Bill Wade says
that when this happens the di
vision doesn’t give up. In
stead, he says, it tries to find a
pattern in the crime. W'ade
says anything the detective
finds is important because it
may be useful in solving a case
later on.
Sometimes the detective’s
job is hampered by a witness’
inability to remember signifi
cant details. But the investiga
tors have an answer for that —
detective Will Scott, a hyp
notist.
“It’s not like a lot of people
think," Scott says, “like getting
up on a stage and turning peo
ple into chickens. It’s not like
hypnosis,
Hoelscher saysi
that at all. You actually are
aware of everything that’s
going on around you.”
Scott says the technique
merely puts subjects in a more
relaxed frame of mind so they
can recall details with greater
clarity and accuracy.
Scott, who was trained at
the Therapeutic and Forensic
Hypnosis Insitute of Texas,
says hypnosis mainly is used to
recall mundane things like
license plate numbers.
However, last year, Scott used
it to solve an armed robbery
case in Bryan.
The clerk at the robbed
store could not remember
enough about the suspect to
give police any real leads.
Under hypnosis the clerk re-
trea
menibered the man’s features
more clearly as well as other
bits of information that
helped solve the case.
Scott says hypnosis is never
used on suspects. One reason
is that a subject cannot be hyp
notized against his will. And if
he were, Scott says, the suspect
possibly could lie even better
under
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usually used to
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case is referred loil^
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that, the police de^,
has no control oven]
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