Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, February22 1984
Murderer says he falsely confessed
United Press International
GEORGETOWN — Con
fessed killer Henry Lee Lucas
eslified Tuesday he falsely con
fessed to a 1979 Williamson
County murder because he
wanted to commit “legal sui
cide” as penance for killing his
15-year-old common law wife.
Lucas made the statement
during a hearing in which Dis
trict Court Judge John Carter
granted a defense motion to
have Lucas’ murder trial moved
from Georgetown because of
pre-trial publicity.
Lucas, a former mental pa
tient convicted in 1960 of mur
dering nis mother, has been
charged with capital murder in
the death of an unidentified fe
male hitchhiker who was found
on Halloween night 1979 near
Interstate 35.
Carter said he would an
nounce a new site for the trial in
about a week. He set a March 12
trial date.
During testimony at the pre
trial hearing, Lucas surprised
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prosecutors by saying three
confessions he gave in the slay
ing of the unidentified hitch
hiker were voluntary, yet they
were lies.
“I just told them what they
wanted to hear,” Lucas said of
his conversations with William
son County authorities.
Lucas’ attorneys are trying to
have his confessions ruled inad-
missable on the grounds they
were given after Lucas was ar
rested illegally in Montague
County for a firearms violation.
Lucas said he made the con
fessions because he wanted to
“make legal suicide” after being
convicted of stabbing and dis
membering Frieda “Becky”
Powell, his common law wife.
“I was in love with her — I
loved Becky,” Lucas said.
Lucas said he learned details
of the Williamson County crime
by reading a police bulletin
while held in the Montague
County.
Lucas also said one of the
confessions he gave Williamson
County Sheriff Jim Boutwell
was made while he was under
the influence of the drug thora-
zine, and another confession
was given just hours after he
had received a life sentence for
Ms. Powell’s murder.
Lucas also has been sen
tenced to 75 years in prison for
the slaying of an elderly Ring-
gold woman who had be
friended him.
In the Williamson County
case, Lucas, 47, is charged with
kidnapping, sexually abusing
and murdering the young
woman. He faces the death pen
alty or life inprisonment on the
charge.
In all, he and Ottis Elwood
Toole, the Florida inmate who
was Lucas’ homosexual lover
and frequent traveling compan
ion, have claimed responsibility
for more than 200 killings.
Georgetown attorneys Don
Higginbotham and Parker Mc
Cullough, Lucas’ defense team,
said their client could not get a
fair trial in Georgetown because
extensive media publicity had
predjudiced potential jurors.
Prosecutor Ed Walsh did not
contest their request, but did say
he thought it would have been
possible to select an jury. \
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Women’s chorus will be
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By HELEN DE LA ROSA
Reporter
The Texas A&M Women’s
Chorus is going to Europe.
Patricia Fleitas, assistant vocal
music coordinator, says Texas
A&M officials decided last week
that the chorus will be able to
tour England and Wales in
May.
Fleitas submitted an audition
packet of video and cassette
tapes, copies of concert pro
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and photographs of the Wom
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Ambassadors, a non-profit or
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tour groups.
Friendship Ambassadors rec
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Fleitas said all 53 Women’s
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day trip. The group will proba
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mances and while visiting Lon
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Cambridge, Bass, Bristol and
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What’s up
WEDNESDAY
A&M CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: An AMCFrA
will be held at 7:30 p.m. in 103 Zachry. The film‘Tk
Second American Revolution’ will be shown. Foi moic
information, contact Mike Garrett at 846-6294 or Tom
George at 696-1487.
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: \ I
meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in 145 of the MSC. Jem I
Pettibone, assistant head football coach, will speak. Foi I
more information, call Jeff Paine at 260-3462.
MSC AGGIE CINEMA: ‘Summer of ’42’ will beshownat I
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sandwiches. Another lunch and Bible study will be con
ducted Thursday at 12:30 p.m. For more information,
call 846*4701.
OPERATION: MOP-UP: A fund-raiser, aimed atcof
pensating those on-campus students who suffered water
damage during the freeze, will continue through the
week. Collection points are set up at: Sbisa, the MSC,
and the Commons. For more information, call 260-351
PRE-LAW SOCIETY: A meeting to discuss the planslot
the regional conference (Feb. 25) will be held at? p.inin
302 Rudder Tower.
SPORTS CAR CLUB: A meeting will be held in Ruddtt
Tower. A car show will be held at Rudder Tower front!
a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, contact Kristis
764-7889 or Donna at 846-6866.
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TEXAS AGGIE MOTORCYCLE CLUB: A meeting
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club activities. For more information, contact Bonnie
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will be held at 6 p.m. in the A&M Presbyterian Church
The cost is $1. Contact Mike Miller at 846-1221 formore
information.
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL: A candlelight
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Chapel. Contact Pastor Hubert Beck for moreinforma
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THURSDAY
ALCOHOL AWARENESS PROJECT: A lunch-time
seminar will be at noon in 120A G. Rollie White. The
new Texas drinking and driving laws will be discussed
For more information, call 845-0596.
INSIGHT: A student-faculty discussion will be heldai
12:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder Tower. The topic is‘Weap
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Bubble boy David
now on critical list
United Press International
HOUSTON — David, the
12-year-old boy born without
any infection-fighting cells,
took a turn for the worse Tues
day and was listed in critical
condition because fluids were
accummulaling around his
heart and lungs.
David, who suffers from Se
vere Combined Immunity Defi
ciency which stripped his body
at birth of any disease fighting
cells, still is plagued with inter
nal bleeding, which also is being
treated, said his physician Dr.
William T. Shearer.
David’s condition was
changed from serious — where
it had been for the last week —
to critical early Tuesday after
the fluids began developing in
side his body Monday and
Tuesday.
“Fluid accummulated in the
pericardial sac which surrounds
the heart Monday and was suc
cessfully drained. Fluids devel
oped in the lungs (Tuesday)
and have been drained,”
Shearer said. He said the fluids
did not’reoccur after they were
drained.
David, who had never been
sick since birth because he lived
in a sterile environment inside
plastic bubbles or a specially
equipped room at Texas Chil
dren’s Hospital, is receiving in
tensive care for the most recent
complication as well as intestinal
bleeding and a stomach ulcer.
The boy’s last name is
sely-guarded secret to pr
the family from publicity.
A hospital spokeswoman:
David, who was said lobeifj
tally alert and with his pares:
is still receiving steroids, atj
biotics to prevent infectionq
medications for the stomach'
Officials said they are to:
ducting tests to determine'
cause of the fluid accutiv-
tions.
David was removed from:
protective bubble on FebT
ler he developed graft-vers-
host disease, a reaction
occurred following a bone is;
row transplant operation. P
tors said they could not pm
erly treat the boy inside
bubble and permanently
moved him from the sterile'
vironment.
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the transplant and received 1
small amount of marrow fa
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The procedure was designee
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cells that he lacks.
Doctors consider grafi' f
sus-host reaction serious'*
newly grafted cells attack
rounding tissue.
The appearance of thetf ;
tion puzzled doctors became
mysteriously emerged n
than three months after
transplant.
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