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The Battalion
Tuesday, February 8,
Kidnapping suspect has map
leading to missing infant
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Cadets scale the arches in front of the "pull out" yell practice at midnight on Sun-
Quadrangle on their way to a sophomore day.
The Associated Press
AUSTIN — Travis County Sheriff Terry Keel says
kidnapping suspect Cathy Lynn Henderson has
drawn a map purportedly showing the location of the
missing infant she's accused of taking, according to a
published report.
Authorities want the map, which Keel said was giv
en to Henderson's lawyer Nona Byington last week,
the Austin American-Statesman reported Monday in a
copyright story.
Keel said the map was drawn in a Kansas City, Mo.,
jail, where Henderson was held after her arrest on a
kidnapping charge. She since has been returned to
Texas.
Meanwhile, law officers continued to search for 3-
month-old Brandon Baugh. Henderson has not given
authorities any information about the infant's where
abouts.
During a five-hour search Sunday, more than 60
law enforcement officers fanned out along 80 miles of
Interstate 35 from Belton to the McLennan-Hill county
line.
Aided by two search dogs and two helicopters, they
concentrated on areas likely to contain a burial site.
The map could put an end to such unsuccessful
searches. Keel said.
Henderson's public defender, Ron Hall, faxed a
copy of the map to Byington last week and sent the
original to her by overnight mail. Keel said.
Sheriff's investigators had warrants to search By-
ington's office and car Friday for the maps. But they
were not found.
"Byington secreted that evidence, and she has at
tempted to use it as a bargaining chiptoreti:
hostage," Keel told the American-Statesman
wanted to negotiate terms of a plea bargain foil
cation of a kidnap victim."
On Monday, about a dozen people who!
helped in the search for the baby gathered in ftc
Byington's office, carrying signs saying,'?!
Where is Brandon?" and "Bring Brandon Home
Byington and her attorney, Steve Brittain, ha
fused to discuss the allegations
Keel charges that the map is not subject to al
client privilege because protections on confident
do not include information pertaining toanonj
crime.
On Friday, Byington gave investigators a swe
fidavit saying the attorney-client privilege was
because there was no ongoing crime. The affidav:
interpreted as an indication that Brandon is dea:
American-Statesman reported.
Keel also said that the faxed and mailed cop;
the map would not fall under attorney-client pir.
because the communication was made betwees
attorneys, not an attorney and client.
But Linda Icenhauer-Ramirez, whowasappc:
to represent Henderson on state kidnapping ciu
disagrees
"I can't verify that there's a map," she said."b
was such a map, anything that is conveyed byaj
to an attorney, and then is shared by another ate
also working on the case, is subject to attorneys 1
privilege.
"From everything I know, the attomey-cliente
lege exists, and Nona Byington is doing (lies
thing," Icenhauer-Ramirez said.
Inmate's family establishes prisoner scholarship fund
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — A mother whose tough love
sent her son to prison hopes that her family's $10,000
contribution to set up a college scholarship fund for
Texas prison inmates will help him and others get
their lives together.
Carolyn and Jim Smiser established the fund last
month with an inheritance left by Mr. Smiser's father.
"They are going to come out of prison sometime,"
Mrs. Smiser said. "Do we want them coming out with
an eighth-grade education, so they can just go back to
what they were doing before, or do we want them ed
ucated and productive?"
Bob Evans, director of continuing education for
the state's school system, says that most inmates pay
for their prison-based college education with federal
Pell grants and state aid.
But a provision in the crime bill passed by the U.S.
Senate could make prisoners ineligible for Pell grants.
Critics say that inmates are competing for money
with low -and moderate-income students.
Mrs. Smiser said she was unaware of the threat to
inmate education when she and her husband set up
the scholarship.
"It takes more than carrying a sandwich board
around saying, T don't want this person in my neigh
borhood,"' she said. "We have to be willing to do
something."
In an attempt to help their son, the Smisers had
moved from their home in Provo, Utah, to the family
ranch in Boerne.
In 1988, Jason was placed on probation after a
rampage at the Smisers' home. High on cocaine and
alcohol, he met Kendall County Sheriff's Department
deputies brandishing a shotgun.
Jason was charged with aggravated assault on a
peace officer and placed on probation.
Mrs. Smiser filed a theft report in 1992 after ;
pawned a deer rifle, a chain saw and a weed cute
taken from their home.
Jason was found guilty of first-degree buii;
and sentenced to seven years in prison, plus an;i
tional seven years for the earlier aggravated ass;:
for which he still was on probation.
He earned his General Equivalency Diploma
hind bars and wants to go to college to becoii:
drug counselor.
Research shows that inmates who obtain
educations are much less likely to commit cri
upon release, Evans said.
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