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EDITION Belleair, Dunedm, Largo, Palm Harbor, Tarpon Springs. Safety Harbor, Oldsmar and all Upper Pinellas. ST. PETERSBURG, FLA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1982 Convicted murderer recants confession, says he is innocent TT nt rw sn us believe anything is different than it was four years ago" when Consagra admitted the murders, Brown said. BUT MILLWEE contends that the fact that the woman did not fail a polygraph test given to her at the sheriffs department "is a very significant sign" that the case should be reopened.

Millwee, who at one time worked for the FBI and was a homicide detective with the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Department, said the results of the polygraph test show that she had "more tendencies to telling the truth than to lying." The woman's confession has been sealed by the court, but Millwee said it confirms a version of the story offered by Consagra after the murders. What is known about the killings She said she and the men had a contract to murder Douberly and Miss Holmes because of a marijuana deal that had gone awry, the investigator said. Steven C. Millwee, the Tampa private investigator who has spent a year investigating the murders, said earlier this week he is confident that a circuit judge will grant Consagra a retrial and the prisoner will be freed. "According to the new information that we have, if we went to a jury trial tomorrow the chances of a conviction are from nil to none," Millwee said Tuesday.

Officials from the sheriffs department disagree with Millwee. Spokesman Jim Brown said "there were about six conflicting statements given by" the woman who "We don't have that much to make from court records is this: Douberly, Consagra and Miss Holmes went to Al Berry's Fish Camp in Ozona at about 11 p.m. the night of April 16, 1978 to rent a 16-foot fiberglass fishing boat Douberly, who was Consagra's former brother-in-law, was the common-law husband of Miss Holmes. The three were drunk when they rented the boat and headed out to the spoil island in St Joseph Sound about a mile and a half north of Dunedin Causeway. They intended to spend the night fishing and drinking beer.

CONSAGRA TOLD police afterward that he and his friends ran out of beer. Douberly and Miss Holmes' volunteered to take the boat and get more, he said. Sea PRISONER. Page 2 By TIM JOHNSON Claarwaiar Timet Stiff Wrltar CLEARWATER Nearly four years ago, Glenn Consagra stood before Judge Harry Fogel and admitted gunning down two friends onr a deserted spoil island off Dunedin Causeway. Because of that admission, Consagra has spent almost four years in the Avon Park Correctional Institution on a sentence of two consecutive life terms.

But now the 42-year-old convicted murderer has told the court that he didn't commit the killings and that a woman's videotaped sworn confession exonerates him. Consagra's statement, submitted to the court by the public defender's office in Pinellas County, alleges that GLENN CONSAGRA hard burden to bear. Wo main) LkflDDedl as Gam3 raOls fiff bits cfltLfl ipDox it 1 tMH US, ,1,1 J. if he confessed to the murders to save his own life. The document says Consagra's legal counsel convinced him in 1978 that, if the case went to trial, he would be convicted in spite of his innocence and sentenced to die in the electric chair.

The motion filed last week came a few days after a private investigator brought to the Pinellas County Sheriffs Department a woman who said she and two men committed the murders. THE WOMAN said they killed Freddie Lamar Douberly and Mary Lou Holmes on the tree-studded spoil island the night of April 16, 1978. Her two male companions then tied the bodies to a boat engine and dumped them in the gulf, she said. someone complains. In Green Grove Village, they're complaining about each other.

The first shot of the "shanty war" was fired against Gessner and Ms. Geisert, according to public records. The two retired German natives had a 5-by-7-foot shanty installed next to their house in late May. It had been inspected and approved by a county building inspector when someone called zoning officials to report that the shed shouldn't be up against the house. County inspectors agreed that they had made a mistake and ordered Ms.

Geisert to make necessary changes. Gessner and Ms. Geisert accused a neighbor of making the complaint, but no records are available to verify who called the inspectors. REGARDLESS, once the German couple made peace with the county, they said they retaliated by reporting the shed belonging to their neighbors, John and Marjorie Farrell. Five more residents with improperly placed sheds were cited last month after their addresses were given to county officials by jockey is fr 1' 1,1 'Hi "Shanties'," or tool sheds, in some Seminole back yards are improperly placed, forcing residents to request variances from the county or face the expenses of moving them.

Finger pointing follows citations for placement of utility sheds 7 -ncl Of PUBLIC HEMN8 OF HOJUSTMtHT 1 4 ftl (it ttlUI ht some unidentified person. Most of the back yards are so small that having the sheds properly placed would require them to be smack in the middle of the yard or in the swimming pool. Residents angrily stood along Orange Blossom Drive on Thursday and pointed accusing fingers at Gessner and Ms. Geisert, although the couple said they didn't turn in the additional neighbors. Battle lines in the "shanty war" are marked with large orange placards stapled on trees in the neighborhood.

The Pinellas County Board of Adjustment notices summon all concerned to a hearing Sept. 1 at which four residents will ask for after-the-fact variances. As many as 28 homeowners in the neighborhood have utility sheds that eventually could be cit- ed by county inspectors before the "shanty war" dies down, said "Dutch" Bender, a spokesman for residents who are angry with Gessner and Ms. Geisert. "We're all laughing about the damn thing," said a serious George Thomas as he motioned toward the orange poster in his front yard.

"I don't care whether or not the shanties are moved. We just want to be treated as a neighbor." arrested li i.v Largo-Saminol Tlm.t OAVE PIERSON A View from inside duplex shows Wetherell was asked if there was anyone else in the car because at that time Ms. Mayer's body was hidden from view by the car, Harris said. Wetherell said yes. When the body was found, the only visible marks were some scratches on the hands, but she wasn't breathing, Wetherell, however, was told she was all right, Harris said.

"We tried to calm him down so we By KERRY J. NORTHRUP Lirqo-Seminol Timet Stiff Wrifr SEMINOLE The "shanty war," as Paul Gessner calls it in colloquial English and a heavy German accent, is being fought in the back yards of a once-quiet Seminole community. And residents say no one is winning. What Gessner calls a shanty, his neighbors in the Green Grove Village subdivision call an aluminum utility shed. Most houses in the area, including the one Gessner shares with Rita Geisert at 8769 Orange Blosson Drive, have one.

Whatever the add-on tool sheds are called, most of them are conveniently tucked into the far corners of back yards along Orange Blossom Drive and adjacent streets and, consequently, are too close to property lines, according to county zoning laws. REGULATIONS require that the sheds be at least five feet from property lines and other buildings. Will Davis, assistant director of environmental man- agement for the county, said inspectors don't press the relatively minor point of law, though, unless By DAVIO HENRY Clurwatar TimM Staff Wrhar OLDSMAR A mother of three children was killed early Thursday in Oldsmar when a car in which she was riding missed a curve, tumbled through a field and slammed into a duplex wall. A couple and their 9-month-old daughter who were sleeping in a bedroom about 10 feet south of the point of impact were jolted awake by the explosion but were not injured. The 1969 Mercury Cougar was moving at a "high rate of speed" on St Petersburg Drive when it jumped a ditch and rolled about 100 yards before hitting the wall, police said.

SARAH MAYER, 35, who apparently was thrown from the car into the wall of the duplex at 222 St. Petersburg Drive, was dead at the scene of the 1:35 a.m. accident Police said she has three children, ages 3, 13 and 16. Don R. Wetherell, 26, who police said lived with Ms.

Mayer at 209 Chestnut St. in Oldsmar, also was thrown from the car. He was treated at Mease Hospital in Dunedin and released. Wetherell, who police believe was driving the car, was charged with vehicular homicide, according to a spokesman for the Pinellas County Sheriffs Department Jacob Harris, who owns the duplex and lives on the side that was pot struck by the car, said he heard what he thought was an explosion and went out to investigate. He saw the crumpled Mercury Cougar resting on its roof, a large hole in a bathroom wall of the duplex and a man later identified as Wetherell lying unconscious on the ground.

HIS TENANTS, Joe and Den-ise Sladky and their daughter Jennifer, could have been hurt if the car had hit the wall a few feet to the south where they were asleep, Harris said. "The car was unrecognizable," Harris said. "You couldn't tell what make it was. It just about totally disintegrated coming through there." After a minute or so, Wetherell regained consciousness. Some of his clothes had been torn off, but he was not bleeding heavily.

He got up and walked around, Harris said. i rir "Ll. rM. Largo-Saminola Timat STEVC HASEL damage caused by car. told him she was just sitting over there," Harris said.

"We didn't know then how badly he was hurt." DURING THE interview, Harris pointed to some pieces of paper frm the car that had been thrown into the fronds of a palm tree near the crumpled wall. See CRASH, Page 1 1 -inside- ah suspected of posing as Maps become weapons in Point Alexis battle famed ex by TIM JOHNSON l8rwtf Tiro Stan wrif A man susDected of swindling housands of dollars by pretending that linown Kentucky Derby winning jockey iear Daytona Beach. Last month, an impostor swindled Svomen out of $900 by pretending that he anello, a former jockey who won the 1970 he was a widely has been caught two Clearwater was Mike Man- Kentucky Derby Story, Page 3 Mayor LeCher applauds diplomatic curbs Story, Page 2 Vandalism problem grows at north Pinellas golf courses Story, Page 2 Two youths critical as pickup truck Hips Story, Page 5 DaaH ficH Mttar Dinollae haarkafl after art niifrtraaL thousands of dollars from at least 20 persons in several states. POLICE KNEW Keane was coming because a businessman in the small island community near Daytona Beach had been contacted by the impostor about July 15. The businessman kept police informed of his telephone conversations with Keane during a period of several weeks, then arranged to meet him Wednesday.

When Keane and a female companion were stopped at. 4:55 p.m., his Lincoln Continental contained numerous articles he apparently used to identify himself as Manganello, the police said. Those articles included two battered photocopies of X-rays marked to appear as if they were of Mike Man-ganello's injured back and several photographs of Manganello with horses. Keane also had various paper's identifying himself as See JOCKEY. Page 5 mtride Dust Commander.

Police in Daytona Beach Shores on the East Coast arrested the suspect, Robert William Keane, Wednesday at a roadblock that had been set up to intercept him. Manganello was pleased by the arrest Reached at his Evansville, Ind. home, the former jockey said he wanted to charges against the alleged impostor "because of all the wirravation he has caused me." of Red Tide: story. Page 1-B. Claarwatar Timat Manganello said Keane had been dogging him for more jhan four years and, by using his name, had swindled.