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5 February 10, 1999 4T' IP I yfe 0-W girls continue winning asm mmlmlfom Peirseverarice heroes mm After 27 years, Caffey murder case is solved going secret ft St 1 fc i By CAROL B. BARKER Staff Writer Law enforcement officials involved in the investigation of the 1972 slaying of S.C. Highway Patrolman Roy Caffey of Orangeburg have similar feelings after one of the suspects in the killing pleaded guilty Monday to accessory after the fact of murder. All say they are relieved and hopeful that the Caffey family, especially his son, Robert, who was 15 years old when his father was killed, will now be able to find some peace of mind. In his unrelenting quest to bring his father's killers to justice, Caffey fought the system for years to keep the investigation alive.

Monday his quest ended in a courtroom at the Orangeburg County Courthouse when Betsy Rourk Kemmerlin, 42, of Santee was sentenced to 10 years in prison, suspended to the time she has served in jail since her arrest a year ago and five years probation. She was ordered by Judge Luke Brown to undergo alcohol and drug abuse treatment First Circuit Solicitor Walter Bailey agreed to drop prosecution of the charges of murder and misprision of a felony pending against Kemmerlin in exchange for her guilty plea. Kemmerlin was arrested in February 1997 after telling investigators she was at the scene when Caffey was fatally shot. Kemmerlin identified two accomplices, both males and both One was her brother, Benjamin Douglas Kemmerlin, who was killed Aug. 28, 1981, when he was struck by a vehicle while his own car was stopped alongside Interstate 95 near Santee.

The other accomplice identified by Betsy Kemmerlin was Durham Lee Mizzell, who operated a grocery store in the Red Bank section of Eutawville. Mizzell was shot and killed at this house during a domestic dispute, dying from a 12-gauge shotgun blast to the head about 10 p.m. on March 2, 1984. Mizzell's son-in-law pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and received a 16-year prison sentence. Bailey said Tuesday he probably could have made the accesso-Please see Caffey, 4A By DAVID ESPO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Senate shut its doors Tuesday to debate its verdict on the impeachment of Bill Clinton, with the outcome so evident that one Republican said "bipartisan acquittal" was possible by week's end for the second president in history to be put on trial for his job.

After a month and a day spent listening in silence to opposing legal arguments, senators spent four hours in private deliberations in a Senate chamber cleared of House prosecutors, presidential lawyers and gallery spectators. The first senator to speak in the closed session, Slade Gorton, told colleagues he would vote to remove Clinton because "it is clear that he obstructed justice." Gorton released his remarks following the session. He said he would vote to acquit Clinton on a second charge of perjury. Both charges grew out of the president's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and efforts to keep it from becoming public "I cannot will to my children and grandchildren the proposition that a president stands above the law and can systematically obstruct justice simply because both his polls and the Dow Jones index are high," Gorton said in the statement repeating his closed-door remarks. In all, 18 senators spoke, Republicans alternating with Democrats, before lawmakers adjourned until Wednesday.

"People are very respectful of one another. It's a very dignified climate," said Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat who had been among the leaders of a failed effort to open the proceedings to the public. Republican Larry Craig of Idaho said there was relatively little give-and-take although occasionally one senator would interrupt another to ask: "Why do you believe that?" or "Where did you find that" in the trial record? There was no indication that any Democrat had announced plans to vote to convict Clinton or that any Republican had declared an intention to vote for acquittal. Democrats pressed their effort for a formal Senate censure of Clinton, but many Republicans were opposed and Please see Senate, 4A Robert Caffey was 15 years old when his father, S.C.

Highway Patrolman Roy Caffey of Orangeburg, was killed during a traffic stop in 1972. On Monday, a Santee woman pleaded guilty to being an accessory to murder in the 27-year-old case. photo by Van Hope) patrolman sson Hearing Kemmerlin's confession was important to By CAROL B. BARKER Staff Writer The fact that after 27 years someone finally said, "Yes, I was involved. I was there," when his father was murdered was extremely important to him, Robert Caffey said Tuesday.

S.C. Highway Patrolman Roy Caffey, 56, was shot to death during a traffic stop on Interstate 26 between the Highways 601 and 301 exits the night of Oct 8, 1972. On Monday, 42-year-old Betsy Rourk Kemmerlin pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to the murder and drew a 10-year suspended prison sentence and five years' "We're pleased with what has occurred as far as her confession. Dead tion into his father's murder forward, he was "very skeptical about ever getting a conviction or ever going to court" When the guilty plea was entered, "we were happy about that," he said. Caffey said he has requested a complete copy of the file on his father's murder case from the solicitor.

He said he plans to share that information with his father's brother, Nolan, who lives in Texas. "Not many people know my father had a brother. He would like to know what happened, too," Caffey said. After leaving the courtroom at the Orangeburg County Courthouse on Monday following Betsy Kemmerlin's guilty plea and sentencing, "I sort of lost it," Caffey said. "But Tir okay.

I've done my job." men do not talk, and if she's the only one alive and if this is what we get, then we're going to have to be satisfied with it," said the 42-year-old Caffey, who was only 15 years old when his father was killed. "However, we're disappointed in the fact that there is a law which states whosoever pulls the trigger is guilty and whoever is there is also guilty. Solicitor Walter Bailey told us that, had this case been handled correctly initially, there would have been a conviction and everything would have been over within a year to a year and a half after 1972." Caffey said he was told that a lack of organization and cooperation between law enforcement agencies immediately following the murder hampered the in vestigation. "The solicitor told me there were several law enforcement agencies working on the case at that time and all of them were going in different directions and no one was working on the same sheet of paper," he said. But Caffey commended the law enforcement officers in recent years who were able to "go back in and rebuild the case," making Betsy Kemmerlin's arrest possible.

"I do think that, with what they had to work with what they were given, they did a good job," he said. "But there were so many things that got lost in the cracks that I think something else would have turned up." Caffey said although he never gave up in his efforts to push the investiga Survey: Sexual dysfunction plagues one-third of Americans Charter school application gets tentative OK Home-delivery subscribers of The Times and Democrat should receive seven sections today: The and news and sports sections, a 24-page Belk supplement, an eight-page BiLo supplement, a four-page Food Lion supplement and a four- page Winn Dixie supplement. Subscribers not receiving all sections should call 536-1812. Wednesday, partly cloudy. High near 70.

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Chance of rain 20 percent. By MARTHA IRVINE Associated Press Writer CHICAGO More than 40- percent of women and 30 percent of men regularly have no interest in sex, can't have an orgasm or suffer from some other sexual dysfunction, according to what researchers say is the most comprehensive U.S. sex survey since the 1948 Kinsey Report The study's lead author, University of Chicago sociologist Edward Laumann, called the findings stunning. "I think it gives us a base for explaining why we had this enormous response to Viagra," he said. The researchers said problems with sex are often coupled with everything from emotional and health problems to lack of time, job pressures and money trouble.

But they said they arent sure which comes first stress or problems with sex. The study-was published in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. The researchers based their findings on the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey, a compilation of interviews with 1,749 women and 1,410 men. The participants, ages 18 to 59, were asked if they had experienced sexual dysfunction over several months in the previous year. Sexual dysfunction was defined as a regular lack of interest in or pain during sex or persistent problems achieving lubrication, an erection or orgasm.

Lack of interest in sex was the most common problem for women, with about a third saying they regularly didn't want sex. By DIONNE GLEATON Staff Writer Sponsors of a prospective Young Parents Academy have yet to get final charter approval, but the Orangeburg Consolidated School District 5 board of trustees moved them a little closer to their goal by granting tentative approval Tuesday night "The law does give you permission to approve conditionally," Consolidated District 5 Superintendent Walter Tobin said during a work session held in the Resource Room of the Ellis Building. Orangeburg County Board of Education member Joyce Colter, who is also owner and operator of The Student Center for Tutoring and Enrichment at 1724 Old St. Matthews Road, wants to sponsor the academy. Its mission would be providing an academic environment in which young parents can pursue their educational, employment and career goals.

The board granted conditional charter approval, with final approval to be contingent upon the sponsors satisfactorily meeting further requirements as they pertain to the charter school law. The board agreed that final approval will be awarded or rejected during a March 9 work session. The board has a 90-day window or until March 15 to make a final decision on charter approval, but Tobin said, "We probably need some kind of progress report" Colter, who was present at the meeting, presented the board with a statement she obtained from the State Ethics Commission. But Zilla Hinton of North said that the issue of dual office-holding had nothing to do with the Ethics Commission, but is a matter Please see School, 4A Ann Landers 2C Anne Nan Astro-Graph Bridge 2C Business 4B Classified 8-1 2C Comics 3C Crossword puzzle DearAbby 2C Deaths 2B Editorials 4C Etc 1C Health 2C Localstate 1B Lotteries 2A Markets Short takes Sports 6-8B Theaters 5C TV-Entertainment 5C Weather 2A Twenty-six percent said they regularly didn't have orgasms and 23 percent said sex wasnt pleasurable. About a third of men said they had persistent problems with climaxing too early, while 14 percent said they had no interest in sex and 8 percent said they consistently derived no pleasure from sex.

Overall, 43 percent of women and 31 percent of men said they had one or more persistent problems with sex. The researchers had expected the overall numbers to be closer to maybe 20 percent for each sex. Laumann said the findings could offer hope to millions, many of whom think they're the only ones having trouble in bed. "Often they don't even admit it to their partners. It's the old "I've got a headache' instead of I don't feel like having sex," he said.

Dr. Domeena Renshaw, a Chicago-area sex therapist, said the results are not surprising, considering the long list of couples waiting to get into the sexual dysfunction Please see Survey, 4A Mrs. Betty Joann Clark Bowman Billy J. Sanford Fitzgerald, Ga. Mrs.

Maybell Singleton Santee.