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Greg Glauser of Katy, Texas, watches his son Grant Glauser play in the Southwest Regional Junior ZAT
held in college station at the Texas A&M intermediate courts Sunday afternoon. Grant is competing in
the 14-and-under age division.
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Copycat hate crime suggested in Louisiana
SLIDELL, La. (AP) — In anoth
er case similar to the dragging
death in Texas, an African-Amer
ican man said three white men in
a car yelled racial slurs and
grabbed him by the arm, pulling
him for 2 1/2 blocks.
Cornelius Weaver told
deputies that he was walking
home from a convenience store
early Saturday when the front
and rear passengers of a passing
car reached out and grabbed
him by the arm.
Weaver, 23, suffered abra
sions and bruises on his limbs
and torso when he rolled away
from the car after being
dragged, sheriff's spokesperson
janes Hartman said.
"He tells a story that amounts
to a hate crime," Hartman said.
Weaver told The Times-
Picayune of New Orleans in a sto
ry published Sunday that he
feared the men wanted to rob
him or kidnap him. "I kept say
ing, 'Please, let me go.'"
Weaver could not be reached
for comment Sunday.
His mother, Mary Burnett,
would not speculate on whether
her son was the victim of a
copycat of the racial attack in |
Jasper, Texas, where james Byrd
Jr., 49, was dragged to death a
week ago.
Three white men believed to
have ties to white supremacist
groups are suspects in that case.
"I'm just aggravated. I didn't
think anyone would do anything
like this here," she said.
Weaver was wounded a day
after Baron Manning, 17, of
Belleville, III., said three white
youths called him over to their
vehicle early Friday, grabbed him
through an open window by his
shirt and dragged him until the
cloth ripped and he fell near the
back wheels.
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Convicted serial killer sits on death row awaiting June 30 lethal injection execi
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HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Time is running out for Hen
ry Lee Lucas, the man known as the one-eyed drifter
and once considered among the most prolific serial
killers the nation ever has known.
Even Lucas admits it is very likely his troubled and
confusing life will end June 30. That is when Texas
prison officials are scheduled to insert one needle car
rying lethal drugs somewhere near the naked woman
and sinking ship tattoos on his left arm, and another
near the tattoos of a Boy Scout ribbon and comic strip
character Blondie on his right arm.
"Unless a miracle happens, my chances are zero,"
Lucas says. "I hate to say it, but that's the way it is.
"It don't scare me. I know what I'm facing. I'm not
going to cry about it. Why should I make a big scene?
That shows weakness. Besides, God's waiting on the
other side. That's all I'm concerned with."
Lucas, who acknowledges he might have killed his
mother in Michigan in 1960 but no one else, still attracts
detectives trying to close old murder cases. A pair from
Oklahoma showed up at the Texas Department of Crim
inal Justice Ellis Unit to talk with him just a few weeks ago.
"They're trying to get this case in before 1 die," he
said, laughing. "They got a long way to go because I
ain't confessing no more."
It's a far cry from the early 1980s, when Lucas, who
claims to have been on a steady diet of tranquilizers,
steaks, hamburgers and milkshakes, led authorities all
over the country. He claims to have confessed to as
many as 600 murders in 26 states and Canada.
That's nearly the passenger capacity of two jumbo
jets, or almost four times the number of people killed in
the Oklahoma City bombing.
"I used to confess to everything under the sun," he
said. "I thought if I confessed to a bunch of crimes at one
time, people would say: 'No, that couldn't happen.' I
enjoyed it. Until I got tired of it.
"A fool like me comes along and says he's commit
ted 600 murders and gives police a chance to solve all
their unsolved murder cases."
That was when he was a thin 150-pound handyman
who primarily worked as a roofer. Lucas, who lost his
left eye in a childhood accident, these days is puffy-
faced and double-chinned and shuffles slowly as he
walks around death row. The green tattoos on his arms
are thick with age, like ink that has blotted through old
paper. His once dark brown hair is mostly gray.
"I'm trying to hide from being famous," Lucas said,
who claims to be 62, a year older than the age on his
prison file. Either way, he is the oldest of the 450 people
on Texas' death row and would be oldest ever executed.
He had been hitchhiking June 26, 1982, in Ringo in
far north central Texas when a country minister, Reuben
Moore, picked him up and took him in, allowing him to
live on his abandoned chicken ranch in remote Mon
tague County where one of the barns had been reno
vated to become the House of Prayer for All People.
Lucas, accompanied by a young woman he called
Becky, was allowed to live in another of the old barns
that Moore had turned into an apartment.
When an 82-year-old woman in the area, Kate Rich,
turned up missing, Moore remembered Lucas had
talked about her. And when Lucas went for days in
tently staring at Moore's wife, Faye — he called them
"spells" — Moore became worried.
The county sheriff at the time, W.E Conway, knew
who Lucas was and told Moore. The BlackMI
native had been convicted in Michigan and Mi
prison time for killing his mother. He'dbeenMfc ^
tal hospital and had been imprisoned beginning
for auto theft and burglary. lom-u
Conw a\ arrvslod I m .ison an old autothoL'jB 1A/1
out of Maryland, but had to release him wer H avo
land authorities would not agree to extradition F
The Moores became fearful after someone^L ^
gas them by stuffing their water heater fkiewn p
tain, forcing lethal carbon monoxide into then
The sheriff suspected Lucas, and suspotted
killed Rich, but had no evidence to arrest bin 1
The Moores mentioned Lucas had given then!
caliber pistol to safeguard. I
"I want you all to keep this for me because o f
caught with it," Lucas had told Moore.
As an ex-convict, it was illegal for Lucas to®
gun in Texas. That was the opening Conwayi' s i
and he arrested Lucas on June 11,1983.
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# Memorial Student Center 1998 Summer Calendar of Even/
Dive into Summer! -
June
Film Society Ghostbusters 9:30 p.m. Rudder Fountain
L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness Community,
Household & Status of Hacienda Tabi, Yucatan, Mexico and
Environmental Policies in Bolivia 1 p.m. Rudder 510
Town Hall Poolside with Polygram 2-4 p.m. Rec. Center
Outdoor Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.)
Visual Arts Tour of San Antonio's Art Museums
(Cost: $10 Texas A&M students; $20 all others)
Cepheid Variable Anime Series 2 p.m. Biochemistry 107-108
Great Issues and Political Forum Open Microphone
11:30-12:30 p.m. Rudder Fountain
Town Hall Hypnotist Rich Ames 8:30 p.m. Rudder Theater
Town Hall Lunch Box Concert 2-4 p.m. Rec. Center
Outdoor Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.)
NOVA Gaming Night at Hullabaloo 6-9 p.m. MSC Bowling
and Games Area
Black Awareness Jw/jetee/n/z Celebration 12:30 p.m.
MSC Flag Room
NON A. SurduKahn I % a.m.-l 1 p.m. MSC 138-146
Town Hall Poolside with Polygram 2-4 p.m Rec. Center
Outdoor Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.)
Cepheid Variable Pleiades Reading Circle 7 p.m. MSC 145
Cepheid Variable/lw>we,Serz'e.s 2 p.m. Biochemistry 107-108
Film Society Sixteen Candles 9:30 p.m. Rudder Fountain
All events are FREE, except as noted.
Dates and times may change. Check out the MSC web site:
wwwmsc.tamu.edu and the MSC Hotline at 847-5463.
Please call 845-1515 for special needs.
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Great Issues Drawing the Line-Technology and the Em
of Cloning 4 p.m. Koldus 110
NOVA Gaming Night at Hullabaloo 6-9 p.m. MSC Bowlt
and Games Area
1 own Hall Poolside with Polygram 2-4 p.m. Rcc. Centw
Outdoor Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.)
Visual Arts Tour of Houston's Corporate Art Collection
(Cost: $10 Texas A&M students only)
Film Society Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
9:30 p.m. Rudder Fountain
Town Hall Lunch Box Concert 2-4 p.m. Rec. Center Ou#
Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.) oS |
Cepheid Variable Anime Series 2 p.m. Biochemistry 1 1
1 own Hall Poolside with Polygram 2-4 p.m. Rec. Center
Outdoor Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.)
Cepheid Variable Pleiades Reading Circle 7 p.m. MSC
24-26 NOVA Battle. Con 3 p.m. Fri.-2 p.m. Sun. MSC 224-225
Visual Arts Tour of Galveston’s Historic Homes
(Cost: $10 Texas A&M students; $20 all others)
-8-29 OP AS Broadway Cabaret 7:30 p.m. College Station
Conference Center at 1300 George Bush Drive
(Cost: $2 Texas A&M students; $5 all others)
Town Hall Poolside with Polygram 2-4 p.m. Rec. Center
Outdoor Pool (A valid Texas A&M ID is required.)
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’ Ce Pheid Variable Anime Series 2 p.m. Biochemistry 1° 7 '
Town Hall Poolside with Polygram 2-4 p.m. Rec. Center
2 Utd0 ° r P ° o1 (A va,id Texas A &M ID is required.)
97 ftU Leadership Conference Trinidad, Texas .^
Cepheid Variable Pleiades Reading Circle 7 p.m- MSC
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