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In its 7-2 decision, the court noted that Joseph Paul Turner voluntarily went to the police station to answer questions, signed a statement that he understood his rights, voluntarily gave a three-page confession, ini tialed each page and signed the doc ument. According to court records. Turner confessed that he had phoned the shop about 3:15 a.m., pretending to be an employee of an other donut store which needed sup plies. He went to the shop, where he found Wilson alone. After the killing, a neighbor living near the shop, who had heard his dogs barking in the early morning, found clothing in a garbage can out side his house. Police detective Al fredo Bonilla examined the clothes and noticed that a pair of boots had the brand name “Tong Young” marked on them. S’ While investigating the killing, Bonilla assembled a list of former shop employees and began question ing each. Turner, who had worked at the shop, was one of them. During unteered that he had purchased a pair of boots while serving with the armed forces in Korea. The boots had a brand name of “Tong,” he told police. At that point, Bonilla said, he advised Turner of his rights. Tupner read his rights, signed a card saying he had done so, and made the confession. He then read the confession and signed it. But in appealing his conviction, Turner claimed that the questioning and his confession were improper, because the interrogation had taken place after he had been taken into custody. The court flatly rejected his argu ment. Murder charges dropped against Fort Worth suspect Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — A mur der charge accusing a Fort Worth man of shooting one of the victims in a string of disappearances and slay ings of young women was dismissed Wednesday after prosecutors de cided they had insufficient evidence. A fingerprint found on the mur dered woman’s car — the key piece of evidence against Timothy Paul Volkmar — was misidentified and was not his, Assistant District Attor ney Steve Chaney said. Volkmar, 25, was arrested Satur day and charged with the shooting death of 20-year-old Lisa Griffin. Griffin was the latest of five women to either disappear or be found slain in southwest Fort Worth since September. Four other area murders of women are also under investigation. Volkmar was arrested and charged by the Tarrant County sheriffs office. But when Fort Worth police looked at the case in connection to their own probe into the murders, they said the finger print found on Griffin’s car did not match Volkmar’s print. Sheriffs officials later concurred. Volkmar remained in the Tarrant County jail because of a possible vio lation of his probation for an unre lated aggravated assault conviction. “He’s suffered considerable harm,” said his attorney, Allan Butcher. “But it’s premature for me to say anything about the propriety of what happened” with the murder charge. Volkmar’s parents proclaimed their son’s innocence before the fin gerprint was discredited. Their son, who works as an apartment mainte nance man, was “being railroaded” because law enforcement officials “in this town are desperate for a sus pect in these killings,” said Lloyd Volkmar, Timothy Volkmar’s fa ther. Griffin’s body was found in south west Tarrant County on Jan. 10 with a single gunshot wound in the head. Her car was found parked behind a nearby shopping center. The crime spree has prompted formation of a special police task force to investigate the nine differ ent cases of missing or slain women. Tarrant County sheriffs deputies handled the Griffin case — one of the nine — because her body was found outside the city limits. Pensions Employees' retirement plans in jeopardy Associated Press DALLAS — Changing business practices and government interfer ence have outdated the pension plans of millions of American work ers, according to a study released Wednesday by a Dallas professor. Americans’ often-snort tenure with a company, increased failures of companies, and inappropriate federal government policies estab lished over 60 years have combined to push the private pension industry into a crisis, said Edward Harpham, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. In the study, Harpham said pen sion plans based on lifetime employ ment are unrealistic. American males have been work ing for their current employers only seven years, and female workers only five years on the average, he said. A company’s longevity also can be cut short, he said. Braniff Interna tional’s bout with bankruptcy pro ceedings is one example of what can happen to workers when companies get in trouble. When the federal government took over Braniff s pension liabilities after the airline filed for reorganiza tion in 1983, it didn’t pay everything Braniff had promised, Harpham said. Harding Lawrence, former chair man of Braniff, was counting on a pension of $306,000 per year, out all he received was $16,568, Harpham said. Federal policies, too, have helped to antiquate the pension system. By promoting flawed practices over the past 60 years, they’ve pushed the private pension industry into trou ble, Harpham said. The government is encouraging companies with healthy pension plans to terminate them while urging firms in financial trouble to dump their pension liabilities on the government, he said. The federal government is al ready the trustee for over 1,000 pri vate pension plans, and the number is steadily growing, he said. The study says employees of fi nancially healthy companies have reason to worry, too. Current law of ten allows employers with high-per forming pension funds to end their plans, pay off employees and pocket liffere )tg surprise to id to thi the difference. “This comes as a big the workers, who tend to think of pension fund assets as theirs,” said Harpham, an assistant professor of government and political economy. Since 1,300 large companies have ended their pension plans and cap tured $2.8 billion in surplus assets, the study said. And another 90 com panies have announced that they in tend to end their plans and pocket $1.1 billion in surplus assets. The study recommends that fed eral tax and labor law be changed to encourage a pension system similar to the one used at most private col leges and universities. Under those plans, pension money is held in separete trust funds, independent of company managers and union officials. Man sets fire to himself, 2-year-old son Associated Press FORT WORTH — A Fort Worth man apparently doused himself and his son, 2, with gasoline Wednesday and set it afire, killing both of them, authorities said. James McCrary, 35, was found on a bed in a front bedroom and his son, James Andrew McCrary, was found on the floor at the foot of the bed after firefighters put out the blaze, said Capt. W.E. Dunkin, head of the Fire Department’s arson divi sion. “The mother was at work and two older daughters, 7 and 8, were at school,” Dunkin said. He said he didn’t know what prompted the incident. “Apparently there were some mental problems,” Dunkin said. 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