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Monday, June 9, 2003
STATE
THE BATTALION
‘Railroad Killer’ says he killed man
for whom others got convicted
By Mark Babineck
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — Since his
arrest, the man known as the
“Railroad Killer” has given
authorities crucial details that
have helped close four murder
cases in three states, including
one in which another man had
been charged.
Yet Angel Maturino
Resendiz, 43, who sits on Texas’
death row for one of 14 murders
in which he is the likely killer,
has failed to convince investiga
tors he committed the June 1998
slaying of a southeast Harris
County man. Lawyers for two
people serving life sentences for
the crime believe Maturino
Resendiz could be the key to
their clients’ prison cells.
“Nobody seems to be inter
ested in these cases,” Maturino
Resendiz said recently from
death row. “One thing you can
take back on this case, they can
never prove one case that I've
claimed that I haven’t done.”
Indeed, information and
descriptions given by Maturino
Resendiz led to the discovery of
a body in Florida and have
allowed authorities to conclude
he was the killer in two slayings
there, one in Bexar County and
another in Carl, Ga., where
authorities dropped charges
against another man.
In all, authorities believe
Maturino Resendiz is responsi
ble for seven killings in Texas,
two each in Florida and Illinois
and one each in California,
Kentucky and Georgia, all near
the freight train lines he rode
from coast to coast. A Texas
Ranger got Maturino Resendiz
to cross the border into El Paso
and surrender on July 13, 1999,
ending weeks of fear over the
string of random killings.
Yet despite a similar confes
sion in the slaying of Darryl
Kolojaco, including accurate
scene descriptions and a blow-
by-blow account of events
Maturino Resendiz claims
occurred June 13, 1998, prose
cutors believe his oft-repeated
statement is among several
bogus admissions the Mexican
citizen has made.
Prosecutor Vic Wisner, who
successfully convinced two
juries that Kolojaco’s wife got
her lover to commit the murder
using the lure of a $100,000 life
insurance payment, said details
given by Maturino Resendiz
didn’t add up.
“We met with the Railroad
Killer at length,” Wisner said.
“Either he (saw news accounts)
or somebody clued him in on the
case. But his
story is impossi
ble as to how he
claimed it hap
pened.”
Assistant
District Attorney
Lyn McClellan,
who helped
secure a convic
tion and condem
nation for
Maturino
Resendiz in the 1998 slaying of
a Houston-area medical
researcher, said authorities have
good reason to dispute the rail
riding serial killer’s statements.
“I’m confident Resendiz will
do anything and everything to
basically draw attention to him
self,” said McClellan, who was
not familiar with details of the
Kolojaco case. “He’s not going
to fade away quietly. It’s just not
going to happen.”
However, attorneys for con
victed murderers Diamantina
Kolojaco, 42, and 27-year-old
boyfriend Andres Moscorro, are
hopeful a court somewhere will
consider Maturino Resendiz’s
confession. So far it hasn’t hap
pened, and both have seen their
life sentences upheld.
Judy Prince, an attorney for
Moscorro, said her client was
bullied into a confession.
“My client gave a statement
after nine hours of interrogation
after the door was kicked in by
the cops at 5 a.m.,” Prince said.
“He’s ignorant, with a fifth-grade
education in rural Mexico. He
gave a statement but didn’t admit
to murder by remuneration.
“We asked him, ‘Why did
you do it?’ He said, ‘Because
they kept telling me I was going
to get the needle if I didn’t,”’
Prince said.
Similarly, Diamantina
Kolojaco’s attorney says she was
confused by interrogators and
signed a confession that didn’t
accurately embody her verbal
statement to Harris County sher
iff’s deputies.
“The cops came to a real
quick theory:
(Diamantina
Kolojaco and
Moscorro) set it
up for a
$100,000 insur
ance policy they
knew about,”
Bill Gifford said.
Harris
County
Detective
Charles A.
Leithner denied the confessions
were ill-gotten, saying the pair
are desperate convicts willing to
say anything for a chance at
freedom. Besides, he said, he’d
have no motivation to elicit a
faulty admission.
“There is no conviction
worth me risking my job,”
Leithner said. “None of them.”
Investigators believe
Diamantina Kolojaco lured her
two teen sons with her to an
apartment she maintained with
Moscorro in nearby Pasadena,
leaving Moscorro to chase Darryl
Kolojaco through the home some
time after midnight and use a
pipe to fatally bludgeon him in
the living room two days before
the victim’s 37th birthday.
Maturino Resendiz maintains
Darryl Kolojaco picked him up
for day labor work and brought
him to the house where the man
touched him in a homosexual
pass, jibing with the wife’s claim
that Kolojaco was bisexual.
“Everything started going
crazy. The color became gray-
blue,” said Maturino Resendiz,
who has reported similar black
outs before other killings, includ
ing such an episode on Dec. 17of
that year when, during a
Houston-area break-in, he found
what he thought were abortion-
related materials. Enraged, k
said he raped and killed Dr.
Claudia Benton in the murder
that landed him on death row.
In a 2001 letter to his Inal
judge. Bill Hannon, Maturino
Resendiz accurately described
the Kolojaco home, down to tie
water tank behind the lot, two
distinctive fence styles liningtle
back yard and “some big tree
that almost touches the house."
“I wonder if Diamantina
Salinas Kolojaco will be letgofor
the killing that I did,” he wrote.
Wisner said Darryl Kolojaco
did not have access to a car tie
night of his slaying ahd could
not have picked up Maturino
Resendiz. Also, Wisner said
Maturino Resendiz mispro
nounced Kolojaco’s first name,
among other inconsistencies.
“His story does not check
out. It’s impossible,” Wisnet
said.
Maturino Resendiz’s convic
tion and sentence recently were
affirmed by the Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals. His court-
appointed attorneys will continue
the appellate process unless he
stops them, which will require a
finding by Hannon that he is com
petent to make such a decision.
If Harmon holds such a hear
ing and allows Maturino
Resendiz to stop his appeals,tie
judge could set an execution
date. No such hearing currently
is scheduled.
Even though Maturino
Resendiz’s insanity claim was
rejected by a Harris County jury
appeals attorney Les Ribnik
contends his client is unstable
but could hold the secrets of
other killings that would die
with him in the Texas dear
chamber.
a
His story does
not check out.
It’s impossible.
— Vic Wisner
prosecutor
Texas deputy may have shot self
PALESTINE, Texas (AP) — Officials investi
gating last month’s fatal shooting of an East Texas
lawman say the veteran sheriff’s deputy may have
died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Anderson County sheriff’s investigator Shelby
Green, 39, was found shot to death May 15,
slumped against the open door of his unmarked
patrol car. Green had been shot in the chest.
Since then, county investigators had said the
case was being investigated as a homicide. But last
week, Chief Deputy Mike Link told the Palestine
Herald-Press that investigators had also begun to
consider suicide a possibility in Green’s death.
Investigators are still awaiting ballistics results
and have no other suspects in the shooting.
“We can’t eliminate one of them (homicide or
suicide) right now,” Link said in Sunday’s editions
of the Herald-Press. “It is our goal to come to a
definitive classification. It may not be as timely as
everyone wants, but ... we want to be right, we
want to be accurate.”
In the early hours of May 15, Green had been
on his way to back up another officer on a domes
tic disturbance call when he noticed a suspicious
vehicle at a Bradford area store where he thought
a burglary might be taking place, an investigator
said earlier.
Minutes before his death, Green radioed that he
was involved in a pursuit between Bradford and
Cayuga. He described the vehicle as a silver-col
ored pickup, possibly a Chevrolet.
Investigators said Green’s weapon was found
about 10 to 12 feet below Catfish Creek Bridgeot
Farm-to-Market Road 2961, along the waterway
Authorities have said Green’s weapon had beet
fired multiple times.
Green’s vehicle, recovered in the remote areaof
northwestern Anderson County on the northern
boundary of Gus A. Engeling Wildlife
Management Area, had six bullet holes through the
front windshield and another through the drivers
side window.
Rudy Flores, an investigator with the Texas
Rangers, said that cartridge casings recovered ai
the scene “are consistent with the type of pistol
issued to and carried by Shelby Green.”
Link added that some of the evidence also was
“consistent with ammo issued by the Anderson
County Sheriff’s Department.”
“Even the placement of the rounds” on Green's
vehicle seems inconsistent “with the information
given on the radio,” Link said. “...There is no evi
dence of a homicide besides his (Green’s) verbal
statements at this time.”
Authorities also have confirmed that two writ
ings allegedly written by Green have been recov
ered, but would not call them suicide notes.
“Both the writings were provided to us by
friends and family members,” Link said.
Green, who began as a part-time dispatcher
with the sheriff’s department, was a 10-year veter
an. He received an award last year from the Drug
Enforcement Administration.
He is survived by a wife and three children.
COLLEGE STATION POLICE DEPARTMENT BLOTTER
6/6/03 9:51 a.m. Burglary of a
building, 226 Manuel. Taken:
antique table.
6/6/03 10:09 a.m. Warrant
arrest, 2611 Texas. Charge:
assault family violence.
6/6/03 11:28 a.m. Warrant
arrest, 4302 Oaklawn.
6/6/03 12:12 p.m. Warrant
arrest (parole violation), 1700
George Bush E.
6/6/03 12:33 p.m. Driving
while license suspended. 104
University Dr E., One arrest.
6/6/0312:37 p.m. Traffic arrest
(no driver's license, no insur
ance, expired license plate), 309
College Main. One arrest.
6/6/03 1:33 p.m. Warrant
arrest, 3904 Burning Tree Court.
6/6/03 3:59 p.m. Burglary of a
vehicle, 1500 Harvey. Taken:
pills.
6/6/03 8:49 p.m. Warrant
arrest (no driver's license),
HMP/Longmire.
6/6/03 8:52 p.m. Warrant
arrest, 134 Luther.
6/6/03 9:15 p.m. Warrant
arrest, 134 Luther.
6/6/03 10:51 p.m. Warrant
arrest (bail jumping),
Wellborn/Old Main.
6/6/03 11:51 p.m. Possession
of marijuana,
Southwood/Summit. One arrest.
6/7/03 1:11 a.m. Burglary of a
vehicle, 313 S. College Ave.
Taken: wallet and purse.
6/7/03 1:15 a.m. Traffic arrest
(no driver's license). University
E/E Feeder 6.
6/7/03 2:28 a.m. Burglary of a
vehicle, 313 S. College Ave.
Taken: wallet and purse.
6/7/03 2:52 a.m. Public intox
ication, 1401 Earl Rudder
Freeway S. One arrest.
6/7/03 9:34 a.m. Warrant
arrest, 1835 Sandy Point.
6/7/03 3:04 p.m. Theft, 1500
Harvey. One arrest.
6/7/03 8:15 p.m. Possession
of marijuana, Olsen/Raymond
Stotzer. One arrest.
6/7/03 10:46 p.m. Burglary of
a vehicle, 1900 Texas. Taken: CD
player.
6/7/03 10:52 p.m. Burglary of
a vehicle, 821 Dominik. Taken:
purse.
6/7/03 11:13 p.m. Warrant
arrest (assault/family violence),
134 Luther.
6/7/03 11:17 p.m. Making
alcohol available, 313 S. College
Ave. One arrest.
6/7/03 11:58 p.m. Making
alcohol available, 313 S. College
Ave. One arrest.
6/8/03 12:01 a.m. Warrant
arrest (resisting arrest, evading
arrest, terroristic threat), 313 5-
College Ave.
6/8/03 1:19 a.m. Making alco
hol available, 217 University Dr,
Two arrests.
6/8/03 1:19 a.m. Aggravated
assault, 4075 SH 6 S. No injuries,
6/8/03 1:49 a.m. Major acci
dent, Lincoln/Foster. Bruises and
possible head injury.
6/8/03 2:52 a.m. Runaway,
100 block of Luther.
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