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torn I 1 before Wiley collapsed on the floor. He said he struck Wiley as many as nine more times, but he Murder suspect tells story iof body locked in shed 212 years couldn remember for sure. "Everything happened so fast that it was over before it started, Lintz said. The fight took place on a Friday, and that Monday morning Lintz said that he returned to the station and covered Wiley's body in the gold carpet it was on, and in plastic "to keep the smell down." rfey TIM NICKENS 1 ''bur Timat Staff Wrltaf a- For 2 a years, Ronald Edward Lintz told a jury Thursday, he told "not a soul" about the body he Strapped in a rug and locked away in a rented Storage shed. But last September, Lintz let the rental payments on the shed lapse one day too long.

JJ The same day Lintz dropped off his rent money, storage company employees opened the locked toom and found the rug and plastic that was 31erman I. Wiley's coffin. Lintz said he had wanted "to tell lots of people," tut he said he had never been in trouble before. He first planned to dump the body at the JToytown Sanitary Landfill, Lintz said. But when jje got there, "mentally I couldn't bring myself to Sump the hody there." On Thursday, Lintz told his story on the wit-jess stand and in a 50-minute taped statement played for the jury.

Lintz is on trial for first-degree trying to explain why he beat Wiley with a Jire iron and left him wrapped in a rug for Vh years without telling anyone. rt Lintz's attorneys contend that the 30-year-old JTIearwater resident was acting in self defense. They argue that Lintz had no choice but to kill Wiley to stop Wiley's aggressive sexual advances. The case is expected to go to the jury today. Wiley, who was 44, was a customer at the Phillips 66 station that Lintz managed for his father-in-law on 16th Street North in St.

Petersburg. Wiley didn't have much money, Lintz told the jury, and Lintz hired him to work at the station in the fall of 1981 and let him live in a storage room. Lintz said he knew that Wiley was gay, and Lintz would brush off occasional sexual innuendos that Wiley made. But after the station closed about 6:30 p.m. on March 12, 1982, Lintz said Wiley approached him from behind and made persistent verbal and physical sexual advances, ignoring Lintz's requests to stop.

What followed, Lintz said, was the first fight that Lintz had ever been in. After Wiley bit Lintz on his right arm, Lintz said, he pulled away and fell against a wall. He said that he grabbed a nearby tire iron, roughly two feet long and weighing about 10 pounds, and hit Wiley on the head as "Herman was coming up at me, screaming at me." Lintz, who demonstrated his actions to the jury, caid he hit Wiley three times with the tire iron He loaded the body, the tire iron and other bloodstained items into Wiley's old Ford van and parked it behind the station. The body stayed in the van for a week, and that Saturday Lintz drove the van to the Toytown landfill in northern St. Petersburg.

He dumped everything but the body because "mentally, I couldn't bring myself to dump the body there." Lintz drove to the Park Mini Storage on Park Boulevard, rented Room C-33, and left Wiley's body there. In the next 2' A years, Lintz told police, he went to the storage room twice. About three weeks after leaving the body, Lintz said he checked to see whether water had seeped into the room. Several months later, in the summer of 1982, he said that he put several cans of deodorant inside to curb the smell. "I was pretty upset, but I was relieved a little bit, too," Lintz told the jury about his statement to police on the day the body was found.

"For 2 'a years, I was the only person who knew anything about what happened. It wasn't easy keeping to myself all that time." -r MMIIMIiaaattiiildialtoHl St. Ptrtburg Tim JOSEPH GARNETT JR. Just floating along Five-year-old Michael Scalisce plays on a Styrofoam raft at Gulf port recently. 0H Arrest warrant issued in killing of Kenneth City girl Ifcy BOB PORT j6t Patartburg Timaa Staff Writer The body of Shelly Elizabeth Boggio was found May 6 floating near the State Road 688.

and Pearcy. The three picked up Pearcy's girlfriend, went to a bar, and then took Pearcy's girlfriend home again, the detective say. Later that night, detectives said, Dailey and Pearcy would return alone to the girlfriend's home without Miss Boggio. The girlfriend "noticed that Dailey's pants were wet up to the waist area," according to the sworn statement. The next morning she "found items of personal property belonging to the victim in the car and removed them." Later in May, Pearcy was arrested on a drug charge and gave the detectives a statement regarding the murder.

"Jack Pearcy gave a sworn statement to the State Attorney's Office in which he testified under oath that James Dailey had stabbed the victim several times and then dragged her to the Intracoastal Waterway and had taken her into the water where he held her head under the water and caused her to die from drowning," the detectives said. Later, under questioning from detective Frank Coleman of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department, Pearcy "broke down and also admitted that he had stabbed the victim as well as Mr. Dailey and that he had also helped to carry her body to the water and had helped throw her in the water," the detectives said in the statement. Pearcy is in the Pinellas County jail being held on the drug charge in lieu of $150,000 bail; jail officials said he is not charged in connection with the murder. Meanwhile, Indian Rocks Beach police declined to offer any comments on the case Thursday night.

They said Police Chief Sam Heath plans to issue a statement about the case this morning. An arrest warrant was issued Thursday in the case of a 14-year-old Kenneth City area girl who police say pvas stabbed 30 times and then drowned last month near Indian plocks Beach. The body of Shelly Elizabeth Boggio, a seventh grader at Sixteenth Street Middle School, was found iMny 6 floating near the State Road 88 bridge across the Intracoastal rVV'aterway. The warrant issued Thursday Sleeks the arrest of James Dailey for first-degree murder. His age and address were not mentioned in court Records.

An sworn statement filed in Pinellas Circuit Court along with the Warrant describes how investigators $hink Miss Boggio was murdered, ffl he statement was from two detec- tives from the Indian Rocks Beach police department. The murder occurred the night of May 5, according to detectives John Halliday and Terry Bucchus, after Miss Boggio, her twin sister Stacy, Dailey and Jack Pearcy, 30, had been out driving together. The detectives say that Stacy Boggio was dropped off at her home but Shelly Boggio stayed with Dailey I Dunedin lawyer charged with grand theft turns himself in Jatar iburg Timaa Staff Writer then withdrew $7,082.71 from the estate's bank account and divided the money with another lawyer in his firm. In May of this year, Roman was asked by his law partners to leave the firm of Dunbar, Kimpton, Burke, Boyer, Roman and Schafer because of an investigation into the estate by the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office, according to firm member Wayne Boyer. The firm's senior partners include State Rep.

Peter Dunbar, R-Dun-edin. Dunbar said Thursday evening that he was aware of a state attorney's investigation for a couple of months, but he said he was surprised that Roman was charged. Dunbar said he was not familiar with the estate case Roman handled. "I just plain don't know anything," Dunbar said. "This is not what I expected, I can tell you that." Peter T.

Roman, a Dunedin lawyer charged with stealing money from a woman's estate, turned himself into Pinellas County jail Thursday afternoon. Roman, 37, was arrested and fharged with grand theft. He was released on his own recognizance by Pinellas Circuit Judge Owen Albrit-Jon after spending about three hours in jail Thursday afternoon. Roman could not be reached for comment. Roman is accused of creating a fictitious beneficiary to take $7,000 from the estate of a Pasco County $'oman who died in 1974.

Investigators say that in 1979 Roman sent the Pasco Probate Court the name of a fictitious great nephew of the woman. A judge named the iephew the sole beneficiary of the Estate. Investigators say that Roman DnDfi3(iDsfifi3 alls on Eoilland Basiled 30'Hiontfli Certificate of Peposit Minimum deposit of $10,000. Federal regulations require substantial interest penalties for early withdrawals on CD Accounts. i Jlllig Member F.D.I.C.

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