bman accused
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HOUSTON (AP) - A Chan-
lelview woman ordered the death
!of the mother of her daughter's
[cheerleading rival and used dia
mond earrings as collateral for the
Shired killing, taped conversations
revealed Tuesday.
The recorded conversations
were played for jurors in the trial
of Wanda Holloway, who is ac
cused of trying to hire a hitman in
a scheme prosecutors contend was
meant to improve her daughter's
chances of becoming cheerleader.
Terry Harper, Holloway's for
mer brother-in-law, took jurors
step-by-step Tuesday through six
taped conversations in which he
and the 37-year-old defendant
planned to pay someone to kill or
kidnap Verna Heath.
"I would like it done. I'm seri
ous about it. I've just got to come
up with the money," she said dur
ing one conversation.
Prosecutors allege Holloway
Thieves steal
bicycles from
Austin police
AUSTIN (AP) - Four of nine
bicycles used by Austin police offi
cers to patrol the Sixth Street
I nightclub district and the Univer-
I sity of Texas area were stolen from
| | the department's parking garage.
The $800 bicycles, two of
J which were donated to the police
■ department last year, were locked
I on a bicycle rack with cables and
p padlocks in the patrol building.
"Nobody hates anything
I worse than a thief, and a sneak
I thief is about the lowest form of
I human being there is," said Lt.
I Gerald Raines of the police tactical
I services division.
Officers had last used two of
I the bikes Saturday night and early
I Sunday morning and discovered
I the bicycles were missing Mon-
I day.
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hoped Heath's daughter. Amber,
would be so upset over the death
she would drop out of the cheer
leading competition, giving her
13-year-old daughter, Shanna
Harper, a better shot at winning.
Defense attorneys claim she was
set up by two scheming brothers.
Amber is a freshman cheer
leader this year at Channelview
High School in suburban Houston.
Shanna is not on the team.
Terry Harper wore a hidden
tape-recorder at the request of
Harris County sheriff's detectives
whom he had contacted after he
said Holloway first asked him to
"get rid of" Heath last fall.
In their last meeting Jan. 28,
Holloway gave Harper diamond
earrings and promised to pay cash
for the hit within a month.
"I can't afford to do both,"
Holloway said, referring to an ear
lier plan to kill both Verna and
Amber Heath. "The mother's the
one who screwed me around, the
mother's done all the damage."
"You want her dead?" Harper
asked. She replied: "I don't care
what you do with her, you can
keep her in Cuba for 15 years. I
want her gone."
"Now, Wanda. He (the hit
man) said she won't be breathing
much longer," Harper continued.
"OK, go for it," Holloway
said.
Holloway spoke rapidly on
the tapes, and both she and Harp
er laughed and joked throughout
the conversations.
She was concerned about get
ting caught, saying, "If I ever get
tied into this, I know I'd have to
move. ... But I know I want to do
it."
Holloway and Harper debat
ed several times about whether
both or one of the Heaths would
be hurt and if they should be in
jured or killed.
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HOUSTON (AP) - A dry-
cleaning company trying to pro
tect customers and employees is
hiding armed guards in its stores.
Tjhis marks the third time
since the late 1960s that Pilgrim
Cleaners has utilized such security
measures.
Guy Robertson Jr., whose fa
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"There's nothing better than a
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will be rotated as needed. All are
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