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HE BATTALION I 7 A Tuesday, September 17, 2002 urors find Stayner sane during murder AN JOSE. Calif. (AP) — Cary Stayner was san< when he murdered three Yosemite National Pari tourists in 1999, jurors agreed Monday in a decision that means he could face the death penal ty- « he jury took less than four hours to reject the defense claim the former motel handyman was io uiulei si.nul U lull he was doing, ■stayner stood for the verdict showed no emotion as it was reao ■if he had been found insane, Stiyner would have remained in prison for life for another killing. penalty phase of the trial, in which the jury will decide whether Stayner should be exe cuted or sentenced to life in prison, will begin Tuesday. ■The same jury convicted Stayner last month of murdering (■ole Sund, 42, her daughter, Jul , 15, of Eureka, and their Argentine friend, Silvina Pelosso, 16. while they were staying at the lodge where he woi ked outside the park. ■Family members said they were relieved by the dei ision. ■ “I always knew he was sane. Just seeing his face you can tell,” said Silvina’s father, Pepe Pelosso. “His confession speaks on its own. The cold way he expressed the killings, there is no doubt.” Stayner, 41, already is serving a life sentence for another 1999 slaying, that of park nature guide Joie Annstrong. He had pleaded guilty in that case in a deal that spared him from a possible death sentence. Defense attorney Marcia Morrissey had argued that a lega cy of family mental disorders, a troubled childhood that included the highly publicized kidnapping of a brother, and voices he said told him to “do the job” were evidence Stayner was insane. Prosecutors said proof of Stayner’s sanity was in his con fession to the FBI. in which he detailed his methodical efforts to cover his tracks. Stayner strangled Carole Sund and Pelosso and dumped their bod ies in the trunk of a rental car that he later torched, burning the victims’ bodies beyond recognition. He sexually assaulted Juli Sund, slashed her throat and covered her naked body with brush on a hill side. I always knew he was sane. Just seeing his face you can tell. His confession speaks on its own. - Pepe Pelosso Victims father ^Chicago Tribune says Greene met girl at office ■ CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene, wpo resigned after it was dis- clbsed he had a sexual encounter wjth a teenager, met the girl at hi$ office while she was working on a school project, the newspa- pei reported Monday. ■ The encounter happened more than a decade ago and the girl was of the age of legal con sent, the Tribune reported, quot ing mostly anonymous sources familiar with the incident. Greene asked the teenager to dinner, and later wrote about her in his column, the paper said. I The Tribune also reported Monday that the Chicago-area woman telephoned Greene twice in the last year. The newspaper said after the sec ond call, FBI agents called her, saying she may be posing a threat to the columnist. The Tribune story does not say why the FBI called the woman, and the FBI would not confirm the call. FBI spokes woman Carrie McCune said the bureau's Chicago office was attempting to determine if any complaints were made by Greene or about him. Greene resigned Saturday night following an internal investigation by the Tribune. The newspaper said its probe began after it received an anony mous e-mail last week. In a note on the front page of Sunday’s editions, editor Ann Marie Lipinski announced Greene’s resignation, of which Tribune executives have refused to discuss many details. Greene is married with two children. It wasn't immediately clear if he was married during the encounter with the teenager. He has declined to discuss his resignation in detail. In an e- mail message to The Associated Press, he acknowledged “indis cretions in my life that I am not proud of” and said he was sorry. Greene's resignation will be felt at more than 100 newspa pers around the nation that run his syndicated column. “Tribune Media Services does not anticipate that it will continue to syndicate Greene’s column,” Walter Mahoney, a media services vice president said in a statement. The news of Greene’s resig nation after 30 years as a nationally syndicated columnist comes at a time when he is hugely popular, both as a news paper writer and author. Astronaut on space station promoted to science officer K CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An astro naut who has been toiling on the international space station all summer got a promotion Monday: She has been named the outpost’s first sc ience officer. I NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe informed Peggy Whitson of her new title during a radio hookup between Mission Control and the orbit ing complex. He said someone will be designat- ed a science officer on every succeeding space station crew. I O’Keefe said NASA wants to increase the scientific potential of the space station now that construction soon will be winding down. Only 17 months remain until the U.S. portion of the station is complete. “We need to utilize it better,” O’Keefe said. Whitson, 42, who has a Ph.D. in biochem istry, became the space station’s first full- fledged research scientist when she moved into the outpost in June with two Russian cosmo nauts. They have two months remaining in their mission. “There could not be a better person to serve as our first science officer,” said NASA’s chief scientist. 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