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Weather COACHING CHANGE PREP BASEBALL Apollo beats Owensboro; Daviess tops CatholicCI I Brad Johnson leaves Ohio County, accepts Grayson jobCI Partly cloudy; high 67 Nation: Bush officials could be charged in interrogations, president saysA3 Messenger-Inquirer Vol. 135, No. 1 12 owensboro Wednesday, April 22, 2009 www.messenger-inquirer.com dle9 footless body a mystery It was misidentified in 2007, investigators say Composite drawings of the victim's face showed a very strong resemblance to one of Morris' siblings, a brother, and Moorman said that strengthened investigators' belief that the body was Morris. The Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas in Fort Worth was asked to identify the body. Moorman said about two years ago, he received a call asking for a "blood chart" with technical information that can be used to identify a body.

Moorman faxed the blood chart to the center, and he said an employee at the lab gave verbal confirmation over By Dariush Shafa Messenger-Inquirer A handless, footless body found on a Daviess County farm in 1990 is again nameless, as DNA tests have confirmed that the body is not whom Kentucky State Police and Daviess County Sheriff's Department investigators thought he was. In 2007, the body was identified as Scott Michael Morris, a 26-year-old man off Pleasant Valley Road, and an examination found that the victim had been beaten with a blunt instrument and shot six times in the head and chest. The autopsy also found that the victim had been sexually assaulted. In an attempt to render the victim unidentifiable, the teeth were knocked down his throat, and the hands and feet were cut off and have never been found. who had been missing from Indianapolis since age 14.

But it turns out that an error led to the incorrect identification of the body. KSP Detective Juan Moorman said an improper reading of a technical document led to the misidentification. "It's definitely not him," Moorman said. "It was stunning (to learn that)." Two rabbit hunters found the body Burns Middle School will be cheering 'Team Karlie' in May the phone that the body was Morris. "They actually are not allowed to verbally confirm or deny on the phone, but when I called on the phone, the person in essence verbally confirmed that these were the remains of Scott Michael Morris," Moorman said.

"About a month later, I got a call from another person there asking if we actually had a blood standard the actual blood from the victim. That's what they actually wanted, and I sent that down there and from that, they did the test and confirmed it was not a match." See BodyPage A2 County expects smaller deficit Haire submits budget plan to commissioners By James Mayse Messenger-Inquirer Last year, Daviess County officials projected the county would run a $2.6 million deficit during fiscal year 2008-09 and planned to make up the difference with county reserve funds. i k' 73 If I fa L-. -M- animuigia i iim But the county will end the fiscal year with a $1.25 mil lion deficit instead, because of reduced expenses and because the county did not incur some anticipated costs. For fiscal year 2009-10, which begins in July, the county expects a 1 1 A Wi WW 1 Reid Haire Jenny Sevcik, 926-0123 Karlie Hempel, 12, a student at Burns Middle School, leans against her bike will used May 9, when Karlie and Burns' health room technician Jeff Miller, teacher Amanda Owen on Tuesday at the school.

Owen organized a fundrais- left, will compete in the International Bar-B-Q Festival 5K RunAValk. The entire ing campaign to purchase a special running strollerbike for Karlie. The stroller school raised $450 to buy the strollerbike in about three days. Joume deficit of $500,000. For fiscal year 2010-11, the hope is to create a budget that does not require the use of any reserve funds to balance.

"With those reductions, we should have an even budget by next year," county Judge-Executive Reid Haire said Tuesday. Haire sent his recommended 2009-10 budget to county commissioners Tuesday. Commissioners will discuss the proposed budget at a work session Friday morning. The budget does not call for an increase in property or occupational taxes. County Treasurer Jim Hendrix said the county will end fiscal year 2008-09 with a smaller than anticipated deficit because county departments were able to cut expenses and because the county road department and detention center needed less money from the general fund than anticipated.

The jail and road department both have received $500,000 less than was budgeted last year, Hendrix said. Part of the road department's savings come from reduced fuel costs. The county also did not spend all of the money budgeted for the city-county combined 911 dispatch center, Hendrix said. See CountyPage A2 By Joy Campbell Messenger-Inquirer Jeff Miller has been a runner for 38 years and says he has logged close to 90,000 miles. But he thinks the ones he will run May 9 will be the most meaningful.

That" because the Burns Middle School health room technician will be pushing a special running strollerbike carrying Karlie Hempel, a 12-year-old BMS special needs student confined to a wheelchair. The entire school, now called "Team Karlie," raised $450 to buy the stroller in about three days. Karlie's first race will be the International Bar-B-Q Festival 5K RunWalk. "A lot of kids asked to do work around their Amanda Owen. "No pun intended, but she just ran with it," Miller said.

"We found a running stroller that cost about $450, and she organized the whole tiling. It was important to Amanda that this be a Burns Middle School project, so it became Team Owen first got her principal, Dane Ferguson, on board, and he gave it his full support. The biggest thing about Burns Middle School is that we're different from other schools," said Owen, who is a special services teacher for students with multiple disabilities. The school supports these kinds of projects with all they have." See JourneyPage A2 homes to raise money for the project," Miller said. "The whole community has been supportive." Miller, a retired Owensboro firefighter, got the idea after being at a race where Dick Hoyt shared his story.

Hoyt competes in Iron Man Triathlons with his son Ricky, who has cerebral palsy and rides in a special bike. Hoyt tells people that he "loans his son his arms and legs" for the races. Hoyt's story is captured in a video posted on YouTube: http:www.youtube. "I thought, That's something we could do with Miller said. "She comes in every day for her medicines, and she's something." Miller shared his idea with Karlie's teacher, INDEX Treasury chief: Banks still battling troubles Bakery gets investment award, rent-free space in competition MarketsB6 MoviesA6 OpinionA7 RecordsB2 TelevisionA6 AstrologyB5 Classified C4-7 ComicsB7 CrosswordC4 Dear AbbyB5 Printed A with soy ink By Tom Raum Associated Press WASHINGTON America's banks are still broken despite all their bailout billions.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told impatient rescue overseers Tuesday as they pressed him on when tilings will get better and how much it will cost A bleak new report estimated U.S. banks and other financial institutions could lose a stunning $2.7 trillion in all. How well is the mostly-spent $700 billion federal bailout working? To date, frankly, the evidence is mixed," Geithner told a congressionally See BanksPage A2 tion, sponsored by the Emerging Ventures, a division of the Greater Owensboro Economic Development Corp. For topping three other finalists in the judged competition, Dalisha's Desserts receives a $15,000 investment award and a six-month free lease of space at the Centre for Business and Research, a business accelerator at Ninth and Allen streets. The former tobacco warehouse is expected to open this summer, with tenants moving is this fall.

See BakeryPage A2 By Steve Vied Messenger-Inquirer There's a truism that defines luck as preparation meeting opportunity. Alisha Hardison personifies that definition. The 28-year-old budding entrepreneur was certainly prepared when opportunity came calling. Dalisha's Desserts, the already successful specialty bakery Hardison started in her Owensboro home in Landsdowne subdivision a year and a half ago, has been named the winner of the first Emerging Ventures Challenge business plan competi iiiiiiin 6 57211 77777 3 Timothy Geithner Alisha Hardison.