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HOUSTON — A dark-haired,
blue-eyed beauty working her first
case as a private detective romanced
a Houston man into confessing —
while police listened on hidden mi
crophones — that he had a role in
the hired murder of a wealthy attor
ney and his wife.
Rookie detective Kim Paris, 23,
tripped a love-baited trap last week
and the man and a daughter of the
murdered couple are now charged
with capital murder, authorities said.
For Paris, the romance with David
Duval West, 28, was a dangerous
stalk of a suspected killer and she’s
y now that it’s over,
don’t feel sorry for him under
the circumstances,” said Paris after
West was arrested.
Police charge that West was hired
to kill wealthy Houston attorney
James H. Campbell, 55, and his wife,
Virginia, 50. One of the Campbell’s
I four daughters, Cynthia Ray, 28, has
been charged with capital murder of
i her mother. Authorities are seeking
| grandjury indictments.
The Campbells were shot to death
as they slept in their plush Houston
mansion. The killer stepped over
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Police called it a professional kill
ing, but were unable to make an ar
rest. Three months ago, three of the
Campbells’ four daughters hired
Houston private detective Clyde
Wilson to investigate the case.
The young woman said she went
to the apartment where West lived,
knocked on the door and claimed to
be looking for someone named
“Charlie,” a Ficticious name she se
lected.
West’s roommate let her in to use
the phone and then invited her to a
bar for drinks. At the bar, she met
West, introducing herself as “Te
resa.” He was immediately attracted
and they started dating, she said.
Paris said after two dates West
proposed marriage.
“1 was friendly and we made con
versation,” she said. “There was
never any promise of sexual favors. I
wanted to build a friendship and
gain his confidence.”
Though they never were intimate,
she said, they dated two or three
times a week and talked frequently
by telephone.
“The more I got involved in it, the
more committed I became because I
was convinced he was directly in
volved,” Paris said.
Paris said West was a mercenary
who kept a loaded .12-gauge shot
gun nearby and often talked of fire
arms.
“He sat down with a handbook
with me and he would go page after
page and point the advantages of
this gun and the disadvantages of
that one and the unique qualities of
each gun,” Paris said.
After West’s proposal, Paris told
him she was interested only in “ma
cho men.” He began to allude to ter
rible things he had (lone, she said.
She said she wired herself last
Wednesday and Thursday with body
microphones, supplied by the Hous
ton police, and gave West an oppor
tunity to get something terrible off
his chest.
A discussion of the killings, she
said, was a final act of faith of his
trust in her.
Paris said she was never fright
ened because a team from the Wil
son agency followed her every move
on each date with West. She said she
never carried a weapon, but wore
her tennis shoes.so she could run
fast if necessary.
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Associated Press
GRAHAM — Searchers
looking through a rural West
Texas oil and gas field have been
unable to turn up a stainless steel
capsule containing highly radio
active material.
After the capsule was discov
ered missing Feb. 1 1 from the
Schlumberger Well Services, in
vestigators started a massive
search.
On Monday, after the search
again failed to turn up any clues,
state officials pushed for a change
in tactics.
“We have suggested that they
try to approach it with the angle
that the (radioactive material) was
stolen,” said Bob Free, an admin
istrator of incident investigation
and emergency response for the
Texas Bureau of Radiation Con
trol.
The container holds cesium
137, a radiation source commonly
used to detect soil types in gas
and oil wells, officials said.
Officials said they didn’t know
what harm picking up the cylin
der would have. But they strongly
suggested that the capsule not be
touched and that the finder no
tify authorities.
The device was believed to
have been put in an underground
storage site by workers returning
from an oil rig in northeast
Throckmorton County on Feb.
11, Free said. He said either the
device was removed or never was
placed in storage to begin with.
Governors back
spending freeze
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The nation’s
governors ignored President Rea
gan’s objections and voted Tuesday
for a federal spending freeze that
would include tne Pentagon and So
cial Security and the possibility of in
creased taxes to reduce the budget
deficit.
“What we accomplished is what
Congress is going to have to ac
complish, and that is to show guts, to
be courageous, to set aside at least
enough self-interest (and) put
enough on the table to get the job
done,” said Kansas Gov. John Car
lin, chairman of the National Gover
nors’ Association. “We’ve proved,
representing the 50 states, that we
could do it.
“Now we want to work with Con
gress to see to it they do it working
with the administration.”
In another move, the governors
voted 27-9 for a compromise resolu
tion that also endorses constitutional
amendments requiring a balanced
federal budget and empowering the
president to veto individual items in
appropriations bills.
Much of the debate as the gover
nors concluded their three-day win
ter meeting was over an amendment
by Democratic Gov. Richard W. Ri
ley of South Carolina challenging
Reagan “to immediately demon
strate his commitment to a balanced
budget” by sending Congress a new
spending plan that states how he
would balance the budget.
The group voted 26-14, primarily
along party lines, in favor of the
amendment, but that fell short of
the two-thirds majority necessary for
adoption. Carlin was the only Demo
cratic governor to oppose it.
Republican Gov, Dick Thorn
burgh of Pennsylvania defended
Reagan’s refusal to touch Social Se
curity. “What the president did say’
yesterday (Monday,) in my view, is
that he did not want to be set up on
this question as he felt he had been
in 1981,” when the issue of possible
Social Security cuts became a major
political argument, he said.
“He (Reagan) did say, as I recall,
that if there was evidence of biparti
san support to put this question on
the table,” the president would be
willing to establish a commission on
the deficit, Thornburgh said.
New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo,
a Democrat, replied, “Not only did
the president not say what Gov.
Thornburgh says he said, and per
haps should have said, he went fur
ther.”
Thornburgh said, “He (Reagan)
said, ‘When I told the American peo
ple that I was against the Social Secu
rity cut, I didn’t really mean the
COLA (cost-of-living adjustment), I
thought I was talking about cutting
basic Social Security; however, the
American people misunderstood me
and I’m going to go with their inter
pretation.’ ”
Reagan was asked during a Jan. 9
news conference whether he still
considered the annual cost-of-living
adjustments in the retirement and
disability program untouchable as
he pledged during the presidential
campaign.
“I never specifically mentioned
that,” Reagan answered. “I did say,
however, that I would resist any
thing that would reduce the pay
ments and the benefits.”
Abortion blaze
Arsonist used gasoline to destroy clinic
Associated Press
MESQUITE — Federal agents
said gasoline was used to ignite a fire
that destroyed an abortion clinic in a
Dallas suburb, but there are few
® other leads in the investigation of
the blaze.
“We’re not in any way ready to say
who did it or why,” said Cummins
Beaty, assistant special iigent in
charge of the Dallas office of the
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms.
The Mesquite Women’s Clinic and
surrounding offices in the Seville
One building were gutted in a fire
that officials said began about 10:30
p.m. Friday.
A task force of 22 federal agents
from three states descended on the
area after the fire to investigate the
arson-ruled blaze. It was the latest in
a string of more than 30 violent acts
against such clinics nationwide in the
last 13 months, officials said.
Lab tests showed the fire was ac
celerated with gasoline, authorities
said Tuesday.
Federal ATF agents from Fort
Worth, Oklahoma and New Mexico
were called in to assist the Dallas of
fice, Beaty said.
“We don’t have a suspect right
now, but we have more direction in
the case than we did yesterday,”
Beaty said.
Meanwhile, leaders on both sides
of the abortion issue decried the use
of violence.
“This could be my office, my
home or, in fact, any of yours,” said
Glenna Halvorson-Boyd of Dallas,
president of the National Abortion
Federation. “If this is tolerated,
none of us is safe.”
Bill Price, president of Texas
Right to Life of Dallas, said his
group could have accomplished
more had the clinic remained open.
“We had everything going for us
out there,” said Price, referring to
the fact that the Mesquite clinic had
been a prime target for abortion
protests for nine months.
“I want it solved,” Price said. “As
long as it (the arson) remains un
solved, everyone will think it was
done by a pro-lifer.”
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