St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 9

3MAR281996 THURSDAY. MARCH 28, 1996 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 13A POLICECOURTS 'Lust Formed The Murder' Of Teacher From St. Louis, Attorney Says At Trial The following incidents were among those that were reported to police departments in the St. Louis metropolitan area or that involved action in one of the area's courts: facturing plant and warehouse, 8700 Commercial Boulevard.

About 200 people were working at the time, said Chief Gary McClain of the Dunklin Fire Protection District. One employee was injured when he fell from a ladder shortly after the fire was reported; another suffered smoke inhalation. Both were treated and released. MISCELLANEOUS tioned loosening the tie rods or cutting the brake lines on Lovera's Jeep. On the day the body was found, they said, Rae admitted completing the act.

"He said, 'I've got a favor to ask Mike Stepp testified. "He said, 'I need you to keep your mouth Stepp said Rae told him, "I did it. I learned a technique in the Navy that actually worked." Stepp testified Rae claimed "he did it with his bare hands." Another friend, Jim Burney, told the court that Rae confessed to him, too. "I did it. I put Kelly over a 100-foot embankment," Burney said Rae told him.

Burney and Stepp denied under defense questioning that their admitted marijuana use affected their memory. SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Prosecutors tried to turn the words of friends and lovers against a banker's daughter and a man she allegedly consorted with in the death of her husband. Shayne Mills Lovera, 29, is charged with first-degree murder in the 1994 slaying of her husband Kelly Joe Lovera, 33, a math professor at Pellissippi State Technical Community College in Knoxville. Kelly Joe Lovera grew up in St.

Louis and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He then taught at Kirkwood High School and Berkeley High School. He moved to Tennessee in 1988 to continue his education. Standing trial with Shayne Lovera on the same charge is Brett Rae, 26. "Lust formed the murder," District Attorney Al Schmutzer said, though an insurance policy of almost was a factor.

Kelly Lovera's body was found in his Jeep at the bottom of a 100-foot embankment in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Prosecutors contend the crash was made to look like an accident. Dr. Cleland Blake, a forensic pathologist, testified that Tennessee Bureau of Investigation experts matched blood stains found at the Loveras' apartment on the sofa, living room wall, children's window and Shayne Lovera's tennis shoes with the victim's. Two friends of Rae's testified that he had talked before the Nov.

6, 1994, slaying about killing Kelly Lovera. He'd men COURT ACTIONS Camdenton, Jess Rush of Mack's Creek, was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the killing in 1991 of a convenience store clerk. Jurors recommended life in prison without parole. Rush, 20, was charged with killing Trudy Darby, 42, who disappeared in January 1991 from the Camdenton store where she worked. Her nude body was found, with a gunshot wound in the head, two days later in the Little Niangua River.

FIRES Pevely: A three-alarm fire Wednesday morning damaged a bottle-making plant in Pevely and slightly injured two people. The fire broke out about 11 a.m. at the Foster Forbes glass manu Belleville: Michael C. Anderson, 36, and his wife, Melody R. Anderson, 28, were charged Wednesday with aggravated battery to a child in the beating of her son, 10, with a belt at the family's apartment at the east edge of Belleville.

Sheriff's deputies said neighbors called them Monday. The boy was treated for two days at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville before being put in foster care. Authorities said the stepfather did the beating, but the boy's mother is accountable under the law. They said the boy had been accused of breaking house rules.

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