Thursday, January 23, 1986/The Battalion/Page 11
Slouch
By Jim Earle
"Where are those loud, over-hearing, rude, bad-mannered, obnox
ious, fanatical football fans from t.u. that used to be so easy to find?”
Police come back
to staked-out grave
to find body inside
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO —Sheriffs dep
uties, who had staked out a shallow
grave for two days, then left for 11
hours, returned Wednesday af
ternoon to find a body buried in the
hole.
The body was that of a man, be
lieved to be in his early 20s, who had
been shot once in the head at close
range, Sheriff Harlon Copeland
said.
The grave was about two feet
deep and covered with an old tire,
styrofoam, rags, string, green roof
ing plastics and broken shingles, in
vestigators said.
Authorities said children playing
in the area near the banks of the San
Antonio River in far south Bexar
County found the grave.
Officers began a stakeout of the
grave Sunday, but had to leave the
site about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday be
cause of a shortage of manpower,
Copeland said.
When officers returned to the
scene Wednesday afternoon and
cleared the gravesite, a deputy no
ticed two gym shoes sticking up from
the grave.
“Whoever killed him must have
liked him. He took time to build a
grave. At least this is better than
finding some bones a year from
now,” Copeland said.
The sheriff estimated the man
was killed Wednesday morning
within two hours of when his body
was found.
Officers said they tentatively had
identified the man, but his name was
withheld pending notification of rel
atives.
Lucas fires second lawyer, delays trial
Associated Press
EL PASO — Accused killer Henry
Lee Lucas fired his second attorney
Wednesday and forced the fourth
postponement of his capital murder
trial.
State District Judge Brunson
Moore had earlier refused to let at
torney Gary Richardson of Tulsa,
Okla., withdraw from the Lucas
case.
Lucas confessed to hundreds of
murders nationwide but he recanted
last spring. He fired his first attor
ney after accusing him of being too
close to the prosecution.
“I am tired of it; 1 am tired of you
firing lawyers,” Moore told Lucas,
who is charged in the 1983 ax slay
ing of 72-year-old Librada Apodaca
of El Paso.
Richardson apparently engi
neered his own firing because he
couldn’t afford to defend Lucas.
The defendant’s legal problems are
so complex that it would take about
$250,000 and six months of full-time
work to untangle them, Richardson
said after a pre-trial hearing was
halted because of his dismissal.
“He has woven himself into a real
legal web and it’s going to take a lot
of money and time to get out of it,”
Richardson said.
“If I thought Henry was guilty,”
he said, “I’d just go in there and
wing it. But I’m thoroughly con
vinced that Henry did not commit
this murder and I stand on that very
firmly.”
Moore had refused to allow a
court-appointed lawyer help Rich
ardson in his defense of Lucas. The
judge also refused to designate Rich
ardson a tax-paid attorney for Lu
cas, who is indigent.
Richardson said he had already
sacrificed a $200,000 fee by de
clining a case in order to defend Lu
cas. He confirmed that he had con
sidered cashing in on Lucas’ book
rights to collect his legal fee, but he
learned that is not allowed under
Texas law.
During a pre-trial hearing Tues
day, El Paso investigator Jay Armes
withdrew from the defense team be
cause he was not allowed direct ac
cess to prosecutors’ files and was dis
satisfied with other arrangements.
The judge extended to Richard
son a gag order imposed on Armes.
Teacher convicted for dismembering wife
Associated Press
ODESSA — A Lubbock teacher
accused of killing and dismembering
his wife and then burying parts of
her body in their back yard was con
victed of murder Wednesday.
Arthur Lee MacLeod was con
victed after a week of court proceed
ings that included testimony on the
mental health and psychological his
tories of the defendant and the vic
tim, Evelyne Feather MacLeod.
The wife’s head and hands were
found buried in the couple’s back
yard last year.
MacLeod, who faces up to life
prison, asked jurors to give him pro
bation because he said he wants to
try and stop others from making the
same mistake he did. Jurors were de
liberating his sentence Wednesday
night.
The couple’s stormy relationship
was a key to the trial’s central issue:
MacLeod’s intent and state of mind
on the night he killed his wife.
Monday MacLeod admitted
strangling his ex-Playboy bunny wife
of five months during a May 15 ar
gument. But he testified that he did
not remember dismembering her
body in an alcoholic stupor.
Lubbock psychiatrist Dr. H.G.
Whittington said Tuesday he doesn’t
believe Arthur Lee MacLeod
planned his wife’s death or intended
to strangle her.
Psychologist Richard Wall, who
described MacLeod as psychotic and
an alcoholic and his wife as a manip
ulative psychopath, testified Mac
Leod would be a good probation
candidate if he stopped drinking.
MacLeod is a repressive person
who tends to deny problems until
they become unmanageable. Wall
explained.
Evelyne MacLeod, whom he saw
in 1983, was depressed, suicidal and
an alcohol and drug abuser who
used other people and then became
angry with them, Wall said.
Criminal District Attorney Jim
Bob Darnell, however reminded the
eight men four women jury that
MacLeod told Whittington during
sessions in October and December
that he wanted to get rid of the evi
dence.
Whittington said that the de
fendant buried the head and hands
of his wife in their yard to remember
her.
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There is a tendency for people who suffer from nervous ten
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