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It's showtime
Vamell Hopkins III/The Battalion
Acely Wilhite, a junior biomed major, freshens up Tracie Martin,
a junior accounting major, during their performance with Alpha
Kappa Alpha at the PanHellenic Council's "Greek Extravaganza"
Saturday
The killing field
Police to work with FBI on League City murders
The Associated Press
LEAGUE CITY - It's been
called the killing field.
Down a lonely dirty road, in
the thick brush and grass of an
abandoned oilfield, the lives of
four young women ended, appar
ently at the hands of a serial killer.
The last victim was found two
years ago this month, but police
have yet to catch the killer.
League City police have exam
ined national computer files and
talked to forensic experts in their
search for leads. And on Tuesday,
they will meet in nearby Houston
with FBI special agents from
Quantico, Va. to discuss the cases.
Investigators hope FBI agents
can form a psychological profile
of the person responsible for the
Calder Road murders.
"These are homicides," said
League City Sgt. Pat Bittner.
"Those women definitely did not
just crawl out there and die on
their own."
"We have girls with similar
appearances, and similar hair
color. The area where the bodies
are being left (is similar). The
girls are all left nude," Bittner
said last week.
"It gives you the idea that this is
an organized serial killer," he said.
"We don't know what sets the
killer off, or what makes him kill."
The victims were all white
women with brownish-colored
hair. Three were around the same
height and weight, while one was
somewhat taller.
Their nude bodies, lying face
up, were found relatively close to
each other in the pasture next to a
rutted stretch of Calder Road that
is closed now because it is virtual
ly impassable.
Police don't know if the
women were sexually assaulted
because their bodies were so de
composed. Some body parts were
dragged away by animals.
It began in April 1984, when a
dog carried home a human skull.
Police later found the body of
Heidi Villareal Eye, a 25-year-old
League City resident who had
been missing about six months.
Laura Ann Miller, a 16-year-
old repeated runaway from
League City, was next. She disap
peared in September 1984, but her
body wasn't discovered until Feb
ruary 1986.
While officers were in thepas'
ture investigating her case, the;
stumbled upon the third victim,
That woman and the fourthvit-
tim, who was found on Sept,8,
1991, have never been identified
Police believe they were transients
The third victim is the only one
whose cause of death has been re
vealed by police. She diedofa
small caliber bullet wound appar
ently to the back.
Police said they have no expla
nation for why the fourth murder
occurred years after the others.
"And you've got to wonder
what happened, why so mucli
time went by before we found cm
next one," Bittner said. "Did the
killer move out of the area, did
the killer end up going to prison!
Did he just get out?"
Engineering
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"Through the extension service and the transporta
tion institute we can provide training for other cam
puses, and then follow up with interaction."
Haden was selected for the positions after a na
tionwide search.
Dr. A. Benton Cocanougher, Texas A&M senior
vice president and provost and search committee
chairman, said he was pleased that Haden was se
lected.
"I'm very glad that he'll be joining us," he said.
"He has an outstanding record in administration, and
I think he'll bring high quality leadership to what is
already an outstanding engineering program."
Texas A&M Interim President Dr. E. Dean Gage
also said he approved of the selection of Haden for
the positions.
"We are very pleased that we were able to recruit
a recognized academic leader with his administra
tive experience," he said. "With his proven track
record of building excellence in academic and engi
neering positions, he'll be able to set us apart from
the rest.
"I believe, based on the recommendations from the
search advisory committee and our lengthy discus
sions and interviews with Dr. Haden, that he will lead
our engineering programs to the next level of recogni
tion and excellence."
Students get the dirt on archaeology
Excavation digs up slave artifacts on plantation
The Associated Press
BRAZORIA — Slowly, meticulously,
several University of Houston archaeology
students scrape thin layers of dirt from
around a buried kettle.
The kettle is among hundreds of 19th
century artifacts, including buttons, coins,
crude jewelry, utensils and tools, that have
been excavated over eight summers at the
Levi Jordan plantation in southwest Brazo
ria County.
"We're learning what stuff was brought
here by these people. They didn't have any
property but they had a lot in their heads,"
professor Kenneth Brown said. "They sim
ply remolded their culture to survive."
The kettle was part of the curer's kit, the
curer being the African American equiva
lent of a physician or folk doctor. His kit in
cluded chalk, mirror fragments, bird skulls,
animal bones and pebbles, all used in the
art of ritual healing. Brown explained.
Slaves, and after slavery was abolished,
tenant farmers lived and worked on the
Jordan plantation until the 1890s. None of
the 14 cabins still stands, but much of their
former contents remain underground.
Texas law after the Emancipation
Proclamation prohibited tenant farmers
indebted to the owner from leavinga
plantation, and their children inherited
the debt. Brown said.
The excavation has turned up artifacts
from more than four decades. The ground
has never been plowed and a storm in the
early 1900s covered the cabin remains with
a protective layer of mud.
The tenants left the cabins hurriedly in
1892, perhaps because they were evicted,
and left a lot of their belongings behind.
Brown suspects that the eviction may
have been in retaliation after two tenants
testified in a lawsuit among Jordan's de
scendants.
Tony Davison of Texas City, an African
American graduate student, described his
experience working on the excavation as al
most spiritual.
"When I touch some of the artifacts
and realize that the last person who
touched it before me was either a slave or
a tenant, I sense that there is a connec
tion," he said. "It has made me much
more sensitive to the survival skills my
people had."
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