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a rT,i§ 0NGVIEW ~~ Police asked
hi public for help Thursday in
olving the slayings of a couple
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^^^riiursday for Jerry Morgan,
| V'O; his wife, Brenda, 2(i; and
heir son, Devin Glenn Morgan,
1 months, whose bodies were
get good| un d Tuesday morning in
deny that. police spokesman Gene
arked to j 0 iji e called the East Texas
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Noble said officers Thursday
would begin retracing every
step of their investigation and
reinterviewing several people
about the slayings.
He appealed for anyone with
information on the killings to
call the Longview Crimestop-
pers telephone number. Infor
mation given to that number is
kept in confidence and can re
sult in a reward if it leads to an
arrest and indictment, lie said.
The victims’ bodies were dis
covered Tuesday morning by
relatives. The three were lying
on their backs on the floor of a
bedroom in their trailer home,
located about a quarter mile
from the nearest neighbors.
They had apparently been dead
since Monday afternoon.
Their car was found Wednes
day about 50 miles away in
Tyler, parked at a hospital. No
ble said officers watched the car
for several hours in hopes the
killer or killers would return to
it, then impounded and
searched it.
“They took something like
three hours to go over that car,”
Noble said. “We got some
smudges as far as fingerprints.
As far as any other physical evi
dence there was almost nothing
there.”
“We re going back over our
steps so to speak,” Noble said
Thursday. “We’re going to re-
interview just about everyone.
We’re getting a numbeh of
phone calls, various and sundry
pieces of information.
“We’re checking out every
lead possible. We have ruled
out nothing,” he said.
United Press International
FALFURRIAS — Two Mexi
can nationals killed in the trunk
of a smuggler’s car that was
struck from behind by a Border
Patrol vehicle on a dark, dusty
road brought to six the number
of illegal aliens who have died
in mishaps while trying to enter
the country the past five days.
Larry Teveraugh, chief of
the Laredo Border Patrol Sec
tor, said the latest deaths hap
pened Wednesday night 18
miles west of Falfurrias while
Border Patrolmen were trying
to stop a car and a pickup truck
jammed with aliens that were
traveling with their lights off
along a farm-to-market road.
Four Salvadoran aliens were
killed and several others were
injured last weekend near
Kingsville, only a few miles east
of Wednesday night’s accident,
when a freight train came upon
a group of about 40 aliens cross
ing a railroad trestle. Many in
the group — also suspected of
being abandoned by “coyotes”
— jumped or fell to the rocky
creekbank below to escape be
ing struck.
The Falfurrias-Kingsville
area is a prime route north of il
legal aliens from Mexico, El Sal
vador and other Central Ameri
can countries who have been
coming in record numbers this
spring. Border Patrol officials
said.
A Border Patrol aircraft
Thursday was flying over the
Falfurrias area trying to find
the drivers of the two vehicles
who abandoned 37 aliens and
fled into the brush Wednesday.
Teverbaugh said that Falfur
rias Border Patrol agent Robert
Handy was chasing the car with
at least 16 people -— two of
them suspected of being Hon
durans and the others from
Mexico — who had crossed the
border illegally, when Handy’s
car plowed into the back of the
car which suddenly stopped.
Julio Bustos Piedras, 16, and
Alejandro Hernandez Diaz, 21,
two of four aliens packed into
the trunk, were killed instantly
in the collision.
A third man in the trunk,
identified as Grabiel Urquiza,
was in critical condition at Cor
pus Cfiristi’s Memorial Hospi
tal.
Five other people were
treated for their injuries at
Brooks County Hospital in Fal
furrias, including Handy who
was in stable condition Thurs
day with head and facial inju
ries and a possible broken wrist.
Teverbaugh said the car and
pickup truck both refused to
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United Press International
iany oppo*>AN ANTONIO — A vet-
get. And® Eastern Airlines pilot and
)tl they ar |is son were killed in the crash
a rare British WWII trainer
ne owned by the Confeder-
Air Force, officials said
ursday.
he Department of Public
[ety identified the victims as
cricks
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irst half
mission.
and iraMarren Erhardt, 51, and his
Timothy Erhardt, 26, of
Antonio. Officials said both
were burned beyond rec-
ition.
he elder Erhardt, who pi-
(1 the plane, had been em-
jyed by Eastern Airlines for
last eight years,
he 43 De Havilland Tiger
th apparently developed en-
e trouble shortly after it took
from the Rio Medina airs-
i in south Bexar County at
ut 7 p.m. Wednesday, said a
fiffs department spokes-
fhe plane, a rare biplane
d by the British in WWII,
nose-dived into a field near the
airstrip and burst into flames on
impact, said sheriff’s investiga
tor Bob Hernandez.
The $40,000 plane belonged
to the Alamo Wing of the Con
federate Air Force, which re
stores and flys vintage aircraft.
Col. Bob Griffin, spokesman
at the CAF headquarters in
Harlingen, said the crash was
only the third of a CAF-owned
aircraft during the organiza
tion’s 26-year history, although
other planes privately owned by
CAF members have been in
volved in accidents.
“We get blamed for almost
every crash that occurs, but our
safety record over the years is
excellent, evidenced by our very
low insurance rate from Lloyds
of London,” Griffin said.
Ed Martinez, a local official
of the Federal Aviation Admin
istration, said a federal inspec
tor was dispatched to the scene
Thursday to determine the
cause of the crash.
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stop when the Border Patrol
car, waiting for suspected alien
smugglers, flashed its lights.
“After three or four miles the
pickup swerved off the road,
through a fence and out into
the brush. The driver bailed out
and ran and did get away,” Te
verbaugh said. He said 22 aliens
were taken into custody from
the pickup truck.
“One of the officers got back
in his car and pursued the 1976
Chevy sedan four-door. It went
two or three miles, turned up a
dirt road that was very dusty.
“Approximately a half mile,
the driver slammed on his
brakes and jumped out of the
car. The Pursuing car, obscured
by sand and dust, ran into it.”
He said the driver of the car
also got away, but 15 aliens were
left behind.
Teveraugh said alien smug
glers often abandon their loads
of aliens in South Texas.
“It’s been going on all along.
It’s not unusual for them to
run, break through a fence and
abandon the load and try to es
cape in the brush. It’s a com
mon occurance,” the Border
Patrol chief said.
Officials in the Falfurrias-
Kingsville area say the region is
a prime route north for illegal
aliens from Mexico, El Salvador-
arid other Central American
countries.
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