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star Wyoming Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1 985 Bl Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo Different blood types found in coed's home Laramie police still investigating apparent murder of UW student 1 DAVE ALLISON Acting superintendent BIA to name Wind River superintendent By PHILIP WHITE Star-Tribune staff writer LARAMIE Two different blood types were found in the apartment of a 22-year-old Laramie woman who was apparently murdered Oct. 20, Laramie Police Chief Jerry Overman said Tuesday. A sum of money also has been reported missing from the West Laramie apartment of the victim, 22-year-old University of Wyoming industrial management student Shelli Wiley, Overman said. Wiley's body was found by firemen in the living room of her burning apartment at 5:24 a.m.

that Sunday. Preliminary autopsy results indicate she had been struck with a blunt object and stabbed. An accelerant was used to start the fire. It is the first homicide in Laramie in nearly six years, police said. Police have interviewed more than 150 acquaintances, relatives and possible suspects, Overman said, "but our investigation has not yet focused on any one individual." Overman said the blood lest results indicate that the assailant may have been injured during the attack.

He urged anyone having knowledge of a person with unexplained cuts or scratches to contact police. Overman said police have been unable to establish a motive. "If the missing money was taken by the assailant, then burglary or robbery may have been part of the motive," he said. Test results that may indicate whether sexual assault was involved are not yet available, he said. Oyerman was not critical of the delay in the tests, which he called complex and time consuming.

"The Wyoming State Crime Laboratory has been extremely helpful and has given a high priority to this case by committing hall of its workforce to the investigation," he sajd. Several articles of evidence have been submitted to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Overman said. He would not reveal the nature of the evidence. The chief said his agency has joined with the Albany County sheriff's office and the University of Wyoming police department to form "a task force of investigators who are working overtime on the investigation." Overman said one of the victim's neighbors told police later on Oct. 20 that she had heard screams from Wiley's apartment at about 5:10 a.m.

He said police believe Wiley was killed between 5:10 and 5:24 a.m., when a trucker reported the fire to policemen who happened to be at Foster's Country Inn about a block from the fire. The Inn is located at the Snowy Range exit of Interstate 80. Wiley was a waitress at the Foster's restaurant, but she did not work the night of her death, Overman said. University officials said she had been continuously enrolled at UW since the fall of 1981, the year she graduated from Laramie High School. Overman said Wiley was not married and had lived at the apartment for about two years.

Police have not determined whether the assailant was acquainted with Wiley or not, he said. Overman would not say whether Wiley was dressed in night clothes or street clothes and would not reveal where blood was found inside the apartment. A blood trail was found outside the apartment. He said "nobody has been ruled out" as a suspect. Wiley is survived by her parents, two brothers and a sister, all of Laramie.

frmj hm a Juslire Kobert Rose packs his Ix lonjiinjis ut his slate Court office Wyoming Supreme Court justice leaving one career for Third black-footed ferret caught at Meeteetse colony FORT WASHAKIE The su-' perintendent of the Wind River Indian Reservation should be named soon, according to Richard Whitesell, area director of the Billings, Mont, area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Whitesell said the Shoshone and Arapahoe tribes were to mail their recommendations to him Tuesday and he would carry those reco- mendations to Washington. D.C. next week where the final decision will be made. One of the contenders for the position is Dave Allison, current acting superintendnent.

Throat-slashing probe continues in Gillette GILLETTE The Campbell County Sheriff's Department has so far spent 21,000 man hours in its investigation of the March 1 throat-slashing murders of Robert and Kathleen Bernard, a sheriff's investigator said. "We do have suspects in the case," investigator John Brunner said. "It is still our No. 1 priority and we have talked to literally hundreds of people in the case. It just takes time to do everything we need to do to check these people out." The sheriff's department believes the murderes were drug-related and Brunner said officers have met with alleged drug dealers "code of silence" in many instances.

"They are two separate investigations," Brunner explained, "the investigation of narcotics undercover work started months before the homicide, but some of those questioned are afraid that if they cooperate with the one they will be 'busted' by the other. "Our goal is to solve the (murder) case," Brunner said. Accused Baggs robber bound over Tuesday BAGGS The Seattle man accused of robbing a Baggs service station and shooting the proprietress last Tuesday has waived his preliminary hearing in Carbon County Court and will now be bound over to District Court, Carbon County Attorney Kurt Kelly said Wednesday. Reginald Smedley, 39, is charged with aggravated robbery in connection with the early morning robbery and shooting of 28-year-old Ann Martha Dillon. According to the complaint, Dillon was shot twice with a .22 caliber revolver, once in the wrist and once in the abdomen.

Smedley fled, following the incident and was arrested by Moffat County Sheriff's deputies about 45 minutes later just north of Craig, Colo. Dillon was in stable condition Wednesday, according to a spokesman at the Memorial Hospital in Craig. Chevron, Uinta board set bond hearing EVANSTON The Uinta County commissioners will meet in special session this morning to conduct a public hearing on the proposed refinancing of up to $1 1 1 million worth of pollution control bonds. Chevron, USA is seeking county approval for the financing change on bonds issued in 1982. The company used the industrial bond money for air quality equipment at its Carter Creek processing plant located north of Evanston.

The pollution control equipment bought with the low-interest funds failed to function correctly when the plant first went into operation in 1983, allowing thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide to escape. The company later spent some $8 million to fix the faulty equipment which the state Department of Environmental Quality says is now in compliance. to Jf'sf MM hands-on experience on how lawyers are to behave in the courtroom. He will also direct a seminar program in political science. Rose also plans to return to a general law practice.

"It's the only work I know," said the son of a Wyoming district court judge. "My father never talked about how to be a good judge, but he taught me how to be a good lawyer." Rose said he's known his successor, former state Rep. Walter C. Urbigkit, most of his adult life. Rose calls him an "excellent legislator and businessman, and a good lawyer." Rose said the 57-year-old "has all the qualifications to be a good justice." Rose is known as a hard worker and a prolific opinion writer.

He says he was often at his office by 6 a.m. and seldom out of it before 5:30 p.m. He has been tagged a liberal, supporting issues including allowing cameras in the courtroom and parting from the majority which upheld Mark Hopkinson's death penalty. An avid photographer of wildlife and flowers, Rose said photography is "marvelous therapy and a lifesaver" from the mental pressures of his job. He parts from the usual subject mat another ter when he takes photographs of animal skulls and bones.

"Bones have their own beauty and symbolism of the West," said the Wyoming native. "They tell me a lot about the history of the cattle and sheep business. Although Rose, a Casper native, said he doesn't want to be called a perfectionist, there are hints of it in his ways. He said he came into a court that was in "the best shape of any supreme court in the country" and he said he's leaving it "in pretty good shape" without a tremendous backlog of cases. When asked about mandatory retirement, Rose said, "we're all different, some are old at 70 while some aren't.

Since there's no magic way to figure it out, 1 guess it's OK to have an arbitrary age." Rose's last day as a supreme court justice is Thursday, the day before his 70th birthday. "I'd like to be remembered as a judge who has cared about human rights and as championing the people's interests. People don't really understand the judicial system we're such a secretive outfit with non-communicative attitudes," he said. "I think judges should be out establishing a trust with the public so they can see the democratic process at work." for comment on the allocations were unsuccessful Tuesday. Tippets said the superintendent was given "a short leave of absence" after he submitted his resignation last week.

During the special board meeting, Judd and the district trustees "mutually and unanimously agreed. chemistry between people was not working out," Tippets said. Judd "handed us his resignation verbally," Tippets said. He described Judd's impending departure as "mutual," largely due to "his style of administration." School principals, who pushed for his resignation, "just didn't hit it off well" with him, Tippets said. The LEA letter also suggests that teachers, staff and the community be given a larger role in the selection of the next superintendent.

Moore said that proposal was included in hopes that another similar situation might be avoided with Judd's successor. "I suppose that the WEA would like to sit in on the inter- CHEYENNE (AP) The movers had packed up the trappings of almost 11 years of a justiceship, leaving nails pro truding on bare office walls, but Robert R. Rose Jr. says he's not retiring just changing jobs. I didn want my last day here to come, when I'd have to walk into an empty office not knowing what I was going to do tomorrow.

There will be no lonely leeling you know, the kind you get when they give you a gold watch," said Rose, who was ap pointed to Wyoming's highest court in 1975. "I've done my job as well as I can do it. I have no regrets. I do feel sorry to leave, but I haven't given myself time for self pity," he said. He must retire at age 70 as required by the state constitu tion.

Rose prides himself on being a student of the law. He said opinion writing is tough, lonely work a job for a person who gleans, enjoyment from legal puzzles. In his new role Nov. 1, the judicial scholar will turn teacher as an adjunct professor at the University of Wyoming's School of Law in Laramie. He has been teaching a trial- practice class two days per week since the fall semester began.

He said his class gives students Uinta school By PAUL KRZA Star-Tribune staff writer and VIRGINIA GIORGIS Star-Tribune correspondent LYMAN The terms of a controversial school superintendent's termination will be decided tonight by the trustees of Uinta County School District No. 6. Superintendent Jerold Judd, on the job for only a few months, has submitted his resignation on the condition that he is paid the rest of his contracted year's salary of $43,170 in addition to his insurance benefits. Judd's planned departure has aroused intense interest among district patrons, including members of a teacher's organization who think he should only be paid for the time he has spent in Lyman. About 200 people attended a special board meeting on Sunday called to formally accept Judd's resignation, according to school board Chairman Ashby Tippets.

Tonight's meeting has been moved the Lyman school auditorium MEETEETSE (AP) A third rare black-footed ferret has been captured from a colony in north- central Wyoming in a program to remove the last known of the species from the wild, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department reported Tuesday. The program was begun last Wednesday, when the agency found an outbreak of canine distemper at the only known col ony of black-footed ferrets in North America. The first two fer rets were captured Friday night and the third an adult female Monday night. None of the ferrets has shown symptoms of the fatal disease. Game and Fish spokesman Al Langston said Tuesday.

Langston said trapping of the nocturnal mammals has been progressing slowly because the animals are less active at this time of year. Although they do not hibernate. Langston said trapping has been hampered because six biologists have to cover a complex of prairie dog towns the ferrets have been us- LINDA STOWERS Action based on free speech views. recommend (who we choose), but that's not the teachers' responsiblity," Tippets said. But he agreed more contact with teachers would be helpful for a new candidate.

Tippets also admitted that board did not have key information about Judd's previous difficulties with a school district in Big Horn County before coming to Lyman. trustees to decide superintendent's resignation terms BLACK-FOOTED FERRET Third ferret captured ing as home. The complex covers 8,000 acres aand has hundreds of thousands of holes. Trapping involves sighting an animal, putting a wire trap over the nest entrance and waiting until the animal comes back up. The threat of distemper was discovered when two of six ferrets captured for a breeding program at the department's Sybille Wildlife Unit located near Laramie came down with the contagious disease.

The Wyoming School Boards Association screened all propsec-tive candidates for the board, but "unfortunately they did not (tell us), and I don't know why." The West Bighorn County Education Association and the Wyoming Education Association filed an action in Bighorn County Oct. 10 against Judd and the Bighorn County School District, according to Linda Stowers, WEA president. Stowers said the action is based on First Amendment rights that guarantee freedom of speech and the right to associate. The salaries of four Bighorn County teachers were publically frozen, Stowers said. The teachers felt the action was taken because they were "active in their association and tended to speak out," she said.

The action asks the school district to announce publically that the salaries of the four teachers are no longer frozen and that the district has taken action to guarantee the rights of free speech and association. because another large crowd is ex pected, he said. On Tuesday, the Lyman Education Association released a strongly-worded letter sent to the school board detailing the reasons the group thinks Judd "should be compensated only for those services rendered." The letter, signed by LEA president Marianne Linebaugh, lists nine allegations as the basis for termination without additional salary payment. It includes charges that Judd has been "guilty of incompetence regarding his fiscal responsibilities." The teachers also accuse the superintendent of "unprofessional conduct," including "inappropriate remarks and uncalled for advances toward female teachers and staff." Other reasons include alleged "intimidation" and "insinuations" relating to teachers interested in joining the LEA, the letter indicates. Moore said LEA members can document the charges included in the letter.

Repeated attempts to reach Judd i.