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0): Section THE TAMPA TRIBUNE Saturday, March 7, 1987 OjfV'UUU Marttaez aide will 'quit, source says it, he contacted child-support authorities in Georgia to make arrangements to start paying. "I realized I ought to set a better example. I ought to practice what I preach," he said. Mae Hoyte said she had not known how to find her ex-husband and didn't know he was working for the governor. She moved to Lumpkin to live with her mother in 1976.

The Hoytes did not divorce, however, until 1984. At that time, the presiding judge ordered Hoyte to pay $150 every two weeks to support the son, Damon. Hillsborough child-support authorities tried several times in 1984 to serve Hoyte with legal papers. anyone wants to return to the vate sector, I wouldn't want to interfere." Hoyte said late Friday, "I will take the next two weeks trying to work out my personal problems. I no plans beyond those two weeks." Asked about reports in the Capitol he is resigning, Hoyte insisted, "I haven't been asked to resign." He would not state that he expects to return to work after his leave, keeping that decision for later.

Hoyte, 37, had acknowledged to the Tribune Thursday he was behind in the child support payments and that after he was first questioned Feb. 26 by a reporter about By JIM WALKER Tribune Staff Writer TALLAHASSEE Douglas M. Hoyte, Gov. Bob Martinez's press secretary and a former Tampa television reporter, took a leave of absence Friday and will not return to his post after disclosures he is $10,000 behind in child-support payments, a source close to the governor said. The Tribune reported in its Friday editions that Hoyte, divorced in 1984, never has paid the court-ordered $300 a month to support his 12-year-old son, Damon, who lives in Lumpkin, with his mother, Mae Hoyte.

"It's obviously a very serious situation; that's why Doug was on press aide to Martinez. Peck described Hoyte's request for leave as a time to do some "soul-searching" and possibly to visit his ex-wife to straighten but the situation. "He regrets the whole thing personally and for the administration," Peck said. "He didn't want to do anything that puts the governor or himself in a bad light and he understands when you live and work in a fishbowl, people are going to stand, tapping on the glass. "This is the first time he's been the one zapped by a story.

It hit him pretty hard," Peck added. Asked if Hoyte would not return to the governor's office, Stipanovich said, "That's up to him. Any time leave by 10 a.m." said J.M. "Mac" Stipanovich, Martinez's chief of staff for political affairs. Stipanovich noted that the governor has made collection of child support a major plank in his program for a revitalized Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services.

The governor announced one of the chief goals of his new HRS secretary, Gregory Coler, was to step up child-support enforcement. Stipanovich would not confirm Hoyte was fired. However, a source close to Martinez said Hoyte was told to submit his resignation during the two-week leave. "As we speak, he's still the press secretary," said Jon Peck, assistant -VvV otv.y.';.:'.j JfuclcjG sets for suspect in newborn's death IHitt Wyw Holiday share found out they wedding anni- Wit 7: Douglas M. Hoyte said he Is going to try to work out his personal problems.

Cynthia Lynn Buck may be freed from jail early next week, officials believe. held the baby underwater for about 10 minutes, according to the detective. Davis said results of tests conducted by the county medical examiner during an autopsy were consis; tent with Buck's description of how the infant died. The detective said Buck told him she knew the baby would die, but she kept the baby submerged so that her mother, who was in an adjoining room, would not learn she had been pregnant. "She said if the baby cried her mother would know that good little Cindy had had a baby," Davis testified, adding that those were the defendant's words.

Buck wrapped the infant in bath room towels and carried it into a' bedroom, Davis testified. She kept the body until disposing of it almost five days later in a dumpster behind the Wal-Mart shopping center off State Road 574, he said. The passer-by found the body the next day. Sheriffs officials charged Buck with first-degree murder. The Hillsborough County grand jury is considering the charge and had not filed a formal indictment Friday, Assistant State Attorney Chuck Ca ruso said.

See BABY, Page 6B I1" 111 1 ,7 Arrest i 1 made in slaying By MICHAEL SZNAJDERMAN Tribune Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG Police Friday charged a St. Petersburg man with murder in connection with the slaying of a woman whose body was found near a school Monday. i However, a police spokesman said authorities don't believe the suspect killed two other women whose strangled, partially clothed bodies were found in the city within the past three weeks. Roderick K.

Fletcher, 22, of 804 Union St. was arrested about 5:45 p.m.- I Fletcher was charged with second-degree murder in the gunshot" slaying of Paula Mathews, whose body was found by a passerby about 6:30 a.m. Monday near 16th Street Middle School. Fletcher was being held without bail Friday night in the Pinellas County Jail. Mathews' body was found in an undeveloped part of the Campbell Park neighborhood in southern St Petersburg.

The woman had a single gunshot wound in the head. Tom Rossi, a homicide detective with St. Petersburg Police Department, said Mathews was killed either Sunday night or early Monday morning. Police have said they believed Mathews was killed elsewhere. i Police took Fletcher into custody Friday afternoon.

"During the course of our investigation his name came up," Rossi said. After questioning, Fletcher was arrested. Mathews was convicted twice in 1986 on misdemeanor charges of soliciting for prostitution, court records show. Mathews body was the third discovered in the past three weeks. Feb.

14 the body of Deborah V. Ki-sor, 31, of 214 Fourth Ave. was found near the Roser Creek Bridge. Feb 27, the body of Lisa Marie BJckford, 19, was found among bushes in a courtyard outside the Mills Plaza office building at 800 Second Ave. S.

Both Kisor and Bickford, who were white, were partially clothed and had been strangled. Mathews was black and was fully clothed. versary Friday at the' Strawberry Festival. Denny entertains with a music revue at the fair. Story, 2B SUNRI! By BAYARD STEELE Tribune Staff Writer TAMPA Cynthia Lynn Buck has been a college student, a travel agent and, for less than 10 minutes last month, a mother.

A judge set bail Friday for the 23-year-old Brandon High School graduate accused of drowning her infant son immediately after giving birth two weeks ago in a bathtub at her mother's house in Brandon. Hillsborough Circuit Judge M. William Graybill set bail at $250,000 and ordered that Buck, if released, must remain in her mother's custody pending the resolution of her case. According to a 1981 Florida Supreme Court ruling, a judge may set bail in first-degree murder cases. Graybill cited the higher court's decision before rendering his decision.

Wearing a blue prison uniform with "county jail" on the back, Buck took the witness stand Friday and promised to return to court if she is released on bail. "Is there any, any concern that this court should have about you showing up?" asked Arnold Levine, her attorney. "No, sir," Buck replied. Levine later said he expects Buck will be released from jail early next week. According to Hillsborough sheriff's officials, a man searching through a dumpster behind a Seff-ner shopping center found the infant's body Feb.

27. It was wrapped in blue towels and still had an umbilical cord attached. Detective Paul C. Davis testified Friday that he questioned Buck at her St Petersburg apartment hours after the body was found. Buck told him the baby was hers, the detective said.

Davis did not say what led authorities to Buck. According to Davis' testimony and court records, Buck was in a bathroom at her mother's house, 703 Westwood Lane, when she felt a sharp pain. She filled the bathtub with warm water and began giving birth, Davis said. Buck felt the infant move inside her, Davis testified, and later saw the baby's arm and leg move as his body remained submerged. She mum on marriages Happy day Hermann and Erna Hehl of a kiss after Denny the Clown were celebrating their 45th One wife By JEFF HERMAN Tribune Staff Writer TAMPA The Hillsborough County wife of an airline flight engineer who is believed to have had as many as six wives isn't talking about their relationship.

"I've got nothing to say," Jody Lutter told a Tribune reporter Friday. A neighbor, who entered the house briefly to ask Lutter if she would talk with a reporter, said it appeared the woman was packing and getting ready to leave with her family. Lutter lives in a one-story, four-bedroom, chocolate brown-colored home at 16216 Sagebrush Road in the North Lakes subdivision on North Dale Mabry Highway, across from Gaither High School. It may be one of several houses throughout the nation that John Charles Lutter calls home. The Associated Press reported Tribune photo by MARK GUSS may have collected six wives.

"I never would have believed it," he said. "The husband, we very rarely saw him around here," said Pushkin, 62, who lives at 16212 Sagebrush Road. "I never saw him outside. He came around and he used to take off on these cruise flights for different airlines, at least that's what he told us." Pushkin described Lutter as about 6 feet tall and a little overweight. "I mean, this isn't the handsome (sort).

He's a good talker. I can't believe he's the kind of guy who could collect six wives," he said Friday. Pushkin, who said he knows Jody Lutter's father, who lives in Greece, said the Lutters lived in their house for six or seven years and were getting set to sell it and move to Fort Lauderdale. Jody Lutter worked in a bank until the birth of their second child, he said. He spoke of his sexual escapades, some of which he videotaped himself, as examples of "an occasional, clandestine soiree." His drug use was merely "recreational," Dubin stated in the letter.

"I did know right from wrong, but I chose a hedonistic, profligate personal life style albeit intermittent, it was certainly injudicious. Incredibly irresponsible but I reasoned that if it was 'totally' private no one would ever know," Dubin wrote, ending with one of a half-dozen references to God. In the letter, Dubin said his "personal financial losses have been monumental" and after the hearing, F. Lee Bailey, his friend and lawyer, said although Dubin is not broke he "is not a man of means anymore." Bailey said Dubin had lost his home, his condominiums and was to lose his clinic in forced sales to prevent foreclosures to pay a tax judgment of more than $700,000 involving excessive deductions he took for his donations of various gemstones to museums such as the Smithson- Dubin receives 5-year prison sentence Friday that police in Seattle are looking for John Charles Lutter, who is believed to have maintained homes in at least four states. He is believed to have been united, either by marriage or common law, to at least six women and, between 1966 and 1986, to have fathered at least 12 children.

Lutter married a woman in Sacramento, in 1966, and another in Seattle seven years ago. The search for Lutter, a former United Airlines flight engineer, began last summer after several of the women reported him missing in July. He was next seen Sept. 23 in Hillsborough County. A neighbor two doors from the Lutter home said he had been told that during the month Lutter was reportedly missing, Lutter and his Hillsborough County wife were in Fort Lauderdale fixing a new house there.

The neighbor, Phil Pushkin, said he was shocked to hear that Lutter bation, which will forbid him from using or being around narcotics for five years after his release, and fined him $10,000. U.S. Attorney Robert W. Merkle, who personally prosecuted the case, told Castagna that no crimes "are more violent" than the use of child pornography and the distribution of narcotics. He called Dubin's attempt to minimize his activities as just a "lifestyle," a "new low in euphemism." The prosecutor termed it a particularly aggravating circumstance that Dubin used his medical knowledge "to satisfy his own appetites and put at risk the lives and mental health of his victims." Dubin, who turned 47 three weeks ago, stood with his head bowed throughout the 40-minute hearing.

Except for a few mumbled words about a letter to the judge, Dubin had nothing to say. That letter complained of "lurid display" of his case by prosecutors and claimed details about his activities were "egregiously distorted" by I 7, .7 -1 i I ed talent." Dubin pleaded guilty six weeks ago to all the counts against him three involving sending or receiving child pornography through the mail and 19 involving distributing small amounts of cocaine, Quaaludes and Valium. Eleven of the drug counts involve a 16-year-old girl who was seduced by Dubin with the help of pills and vodka and eventually agreed to participate in sexual encounters variously with Dubin, her 17-year-old girlfriend and a 23-year-old woman. Dubin videotaped for his own pleasure some of the encounters at locations including his home, his Indian Rocks Beach condominium and his condominium in the Pasco County nudist resort of Paradise Lakes. Dubin is expected to serve his time in a minimum-security facility where he will be able to receive drug counseling.

Lawyers and agents familiar with the case think that under current guidelines Dubin most likely will serve about three years in prison before being paroled. Castagna also put Dubin on pro By BENTLEY ORRICK Tribune Staff Writer TAMPA Calling Dr. Dale B. Dubin's career-wrecking obsession with pornography and cocaine "incomprehensible," a federal judge sentenced the millionaire plastic surgeon to five years in prison Friday. "Some of that material was not easy to review," U.S.

District Judge William J. Castagna said of a collection of commercial and homemade films and videotapes seized from Dubin's Lutz lakeside mansion and West Buffalo Avenue clinic. Noting that some of the females depicted "appear to me to be 10 to 12 years old," Castagna called the dissemination of such pornography "an inducement, an encouragement to what can only be the despicable exploitation of children." Castagna said he could not comprehend how a "person of your talent, ability, education and interest in art" who had made so many "Contributions in the fields of art, medicine and surgery," could have turned his life into such a "tragedy" and "waste of such a rare and need- I 1 i 1 I Tribune photo by FRED FOX Dr. Dale B. Dubin is escorted from the federal courthouse Friday after a federal judge sentenced him to five years in prison.

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