The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 2

2A MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1993 THE TIMES FROU PAGE 1A History of violence follows Wood uhorA relatives lived. The murder of Shirley Coleman UTTLE ROCK 5731 Cloudy Today's forecast highs and tomorrow morning's lows and the weather conditions: Coleman Is abducted from a shopping center at Greenwood and Jewella roads on Christmas Eve 1976. Coleman's car Is found the next day outside a supermarket at Heame and Waggoner avenues. JACKSON 59X9 Cloudy DALLAS 5745 Cloudy SHREVEPORn Five years later, hunters find Coleman's remains In a wooded area off Woolworth Road. James Wood has confessed to 58m Cloudy committing the murder.

LAKE CHARLES BATON ROUGE, 5941 NEW ORLEANS. Cloudy 5343 Cloudy En route there last October, he told police, he kidnapped a teenager from a suburban St. Louis gas station he had robbed earlier in the dav, then raped and shot the girl and left her for dead. She survived. Wood arrived in Pocatello on Nov.

1, Hiedeman said. In addition to killing the 11-year-old girl, he has admitted kidnapping and raping two teen-agers and robbing three businesses there. Wood has pleaded guilty to murdering the 11-year-old girl, and a hearing to determine his sentence is set for Dec. 7. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

No death penalty has been imposed in Idaho since the 1950s. Caddo sheriffs deputies said they will send an investigator to Idaho after Wood's sentencing to try to clear the Coleman case. Wood was not a suspect until his confession and deputies have no physical evidence to bolster their case. Roy Coleman said he never knew details of his mother's death until he read news accounts of Wood's confession. He said he believes Wood killed her.

"It's a big relief, finally knowing what happened," said Coleman, who was two days shy of his 14th birthday when his mother disappeared. "If they took him to trial and he's convicted, I think everything will be said and done. At least they've finally got somebody." RAN Sunday: rant Novambar, to far: 37 (.63 below) Jefferson IT I 'rsPSi ---ll fgQ foiiywood Pierremont a MZsgttf0 Ave. r- 70th St Rf KZ HIGHSIOWS 1W3, to tar 5U (12.7 above) Sunday: SO24 Last year 6032 Racorta: 84 1975: 24 1993 Vfmdipwd and direction fcr today: Out of Soulneasf at 5-10 mpk. First Full Last a Today Tomorrow 5:19 6:39 Nov.

13 Nov. 21 Nov. 29 Dec. 6 Thnea graphic band before the sex complaint was made. That charge was filed a year ago in DeSoto Parish, where the Woods were living in Grand Cane.

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Continued from Page 1 A "You wont find very many people in thia town who weren shocked," she said of Wood, who she said taught art at her beauty shop and at a local retirement home. "He never even raised his voice in our house while we were married." Ms. Wood, who met James Wood through a friend in 1987 and married him the following year, said she now believes he committed the crimes tied to him. Wood once told her he had been imprisoned for robbery, but never mentioned battery and rape convictions from the 1970s. Ttow can you not know? I talked to him (after his arrest in Idaho) and he admitted it," she said.

The whole world has changed; everything is definitely different. I'm not sure youH ever trust anybody else." In his interviews with Pocatel-lo police, Wood claimed he turned against women when he was about 8. His mother had perished in a fire at a potato processing plant across from his school in Idaho. Crying, Wood said he put his arms around the waist of a woman. Rather than consoling him, he said, she pushed him away.

"Wood was very clear that ever since that exact time he has hated women, especially that particular woman," said Sgt Scott Shaw. Wood said he has committed murders in Idaho and Louisiana, shot and stabbed women in Louisiana and Missouri, and committed rapes and robberies in seven states. But is Wood another Henry Lee Lucas? For 18 months after his arrest in Texas in 1983, Lucas told of committing nearly 600 murders in 27 states, including two in Bossier Parish. Police cleared 210 cases largely or totally on the basis of Lucas' statements before he began recanting all but one. The two murders attributed to Lucas in Bossier a woman killed along a railroad track in 1978 and another found near Bellevue in 1981 were never tried because of lack of evidence.

So far, though, police believe Wood's confessions. "He (Wood) doesnt tell us everything. We haven't found one instance where he has lied," said Bannock County Prosecutor Mark Hiedeman, who is seeking the death penalty against Wood for the slaying of Jeralee Underwood. Underwood was abducted last June as she collected money from customers on her newspaper route in Pocatello, then raped and killed. There is no reason for him to tell us those things," Hiedeman said of Wood.

"Every one he's told us about that we've checked out has been true." Wood told police he first came to Shreveport around 1963 when his father, who moved here after he got out of prison, sent Wood a bus ticket after he escaped from a juvenile rehabilitation center in Idaho. Wood married in 1966 after moving to Missouri. Shortly after that, he told police, he went on a "rampage" after quitting his job at a flying school raping women in Missouri and Illinois. He moved to his brother's house in Bossier City in 1967. He was arrested that year after breaking into a Bossier City apartment, stabbing two young women and trying to rape one.

He was convicted of aggravated battery and paroled in 1971, court records show. Wood was severely burned in the Bossier Parish Jail while awaiting trial for that attack. Wally "Wheelchair" Smith, a On Thanksgiving, remember to share your blessings Help the homeless, hungry and hurting of our community by providing hot, nourishing meals. By sending your gift today, you will help others in need and experience the grace of giving. $25.02 will help provide meals for 18 people $50.04 will help provide meals for 36 people $75.06 will help provide meals for 54 people SlOO.Oft will hpln nmvirle meals fur 72 rwwilp 37 43 48 35 17 26 40 128 178 24 8 162 5.3 62 21.2 i -r i 1 Clip and mul wuh jwur Uu-dedurtibl.

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Box 3949 Shreveport. LA 71133-3949 bossier jyBgai Source: Time research physically handicapped drug defendant, told authorities that Wood took his blanket on a cold night and left him to shiver. The following morning, Smith threw a cup of burning lighter fluid on Wood when he walked into the cell, said Bill Gray, a former sheriffs investigator. Wood became a truck driver after his release from prison, driving throughout the country. The late 1970s is when his crime spree started in earnest," Hiedeman said.

"(Wood and his brother) were doing three or four armed robberies a week for about a year and a half in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas" in 1976 and 1977. Shirley Coleman, who worked at the Western Electric phone assembly plant in Shreveport, disappeared Christmas Eve 1976. Wood has confessed to abducting the 33-year-old woman at a shopping center at Greenwood and Jewella. He drove her to woods near the General Electric plant, where he raped and shot her. He has given a detailed account of the crime, Caddo Parish sheriffs deputies said.

Authorities here also are looking at Wood to see if there is any evidence of his involvement in disappearances of two women last seen at Eastgate shopping center in Shreveport in 1979: Arrilla Vaul and Dodie Gay. Wood has not mentioned either of those crimes in his statements to police. Wood was arrested in 1977 for robbing a pizza restaurant in Baton Route. While free on bond on that charge, he moved back to north Louisiana. He worked as a truck driver for a Bossier City oil company, married a Shreveport woman and moved into a house on Regent Street He was then arrested for raping a woman in Lincoln Parish after she had car trouble and called for assistance on her CB radio, authorities said.

Wood was convicted of rape in 1979 and imprisoned until 1986, Department of Corrections records show. After working briefly as a truck driver and on a tugboat in South Louisiana, he returned again to Shreveport in 1987, where he met his wife-to-be. Mrs. Wood said he worked at an insulation company, a film laboratory and a welding shop. "I can't believe he committed no crimes, but he won't tell us about any between 1986 and 1992," Hiedeman said.

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