■itinians.” University Hlt 50 protests ^NATlONii! E BATTALlCilE BATTALION S TION : BAT- HA Thursday, April 11, 2002 fotest^lan indicted for murder after 6 years WASHINGTON (AP) — Six years and 15,000 tips after the mur- oftwo women near the Appalachian Trail sent a chill through arms tied Jers everywhere, federal prosecutors say they have the killer and 1, paraded mu!; I prosecute the case as a hate crime. in Arbor camf.; Darrell David Rice of Columbia, Md., was indicted for the 1996 called Stude-, lyings of Julianne Williams and Laura “Lollie” Winans, the Freedom jj Itice Department announced Wednesday. Already jailed on an In . a statemej elated kidnapping charge. Rice told authorities the women tration was : : Se rved to die because they were lesbian (expletives),” according to the brutalL L-osecution documents filed in court. o state ot Israels I yhe bodies of Williams, 24, of St. Cloud, Minn., and Winans, 26, ^occupation 0 f[j n ity, Maine, were found bound and gagged , man tie 1, 1996, at a creek-side campsite in Virginia’s bore iV p andoah National Park, about a half-mile off reprcM ir ■ Appalachian Trail. Their throats had been cut. who wereasS Williams ’ P arents > T °m and Patsy Williams, ‘nSt. Cloud, Minn., said, ‘’We are grateful that a ipect has been apprehended and indicted, but •focus has been and will continue to be on the ! of our daughter.” Attorney General John Ashcroft, who met with women’s families Wednesday, said the murders