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C2 Sunday, November 13, 1994 LOCAL UZVS The Atlanta Journal The Atlanta Constitution 4. tl 1 'FBI hunts for boy Atlanta Drifter gets death in Cobb cop slaying A Cobb County jury deliberated 4Vi hours Saturday before deriding that a 25-year-old drifter should go to the electric chair for the 1993 shooting death of a Cobb police officer. Cobb Superior Court Judge P. Harris Hines sentenced George Russell Henry to death Saturday afternoon after the jury returned its unanimous veMct. I Henry had been out of jail for only two weeks when Robert Ingram, 24, was killed on July 13, 1993.

Henry pleaded guilty Oct. 31 to shooting Ingram during the early-morning hours as the officer questioned him at a Marietta industrial park. ft District Attorney Tom Charron had urged the jury to vote for the death penalty against Henry, characterizing him as a "career criminal and predator." Henry's defense team argued for a sentence of life in prison without parole because they said his long-term criminal behavior was the result of psychological disorders that had been diagnosed at age 13. Under Georgia law, Henry's sentence will be automatically appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court for review. i i i i I Ski 1' Family ties: Michael Anthony Hughes may be being hidden by a man who abducted, raised and married the boy's mother.

By Bill Rankin STAFF WRITER FBI agents are scouring the Atlanta area for a 6-year-old boy allegedly 'abducted from his classroom in Oklahoma by a Georgia parolee. Agents say they think that Franklin Delano Floyd, 51, may be using accomplices in Georgia to hide the boy and also may have abducted the boy's mother in the mid-1970s when she was a girl. al occasions," Vogel said. "That's why we believe Michael is in Atlanta or somewhere in the state of Georgia." Floyd is not Michael's biological father, Vogel said. But records show that he married the boy's mother in 1989.

Vogel said "there's a very good possibility" that Floyd kidnapped Michael's mother, Tonya Dawn Hughes, when she was a child, kept her as his daughter and later married her. Hughes was killed iif'an April 1990 hit-and-run traffic? accident in Oklahoma City. Floyd is described as a savvy fugitive who used several aliases and addresses to elude federal authorities after violating hisr pa-role in 1973. He left the Georgia prison system in June 1973 after serving 11 years for child molestation and bank robbery. In August 1975, Floyd, using aliases for himself and Hughes, enrolled Hughes in an Oklahoma City elementary school, the FBI said.

After Hughes was killed in 1990, Vogel said, Michael was placed with foster parents, who were caring for him when he disappeared, Anyone who might know toe whereabouts of Michael is asked to call the FBI in Oklahoma City at (405) 842-7471 or the office sin Atlanta at 679-9000. POLICE Assoclated Press FBI agents say they think Franklin Delano Floyd abducted Tonya Dawn Hughes as a child, raised her as his daughter and then married her when she turned 17. Her son is missing. Michael Anthony Hughes, who has brown eyes and hair, a scar on his forehead and two crooked bottom teeth, was kidnapped Sept. 12 from his el- WOMAN'S BODY FOUND: The body of a young woman who had been shot to death was found in southeast Atlanta on Saturday afternoon, police said.

"This woman was definitely not the victim of a serial killer, if there is one," said Atlanta police Sgt. Gordon parls. The fully clothed body, lying face-up, was discovered by a passer-by in weeds near 82 Bowen St. S.E. about 1 p.m.

Saturday. The woman, who was white and in her late 20s or early 30s, had dead "since sometime late last night," said Investigator Rich-aVJEskew of the Fulton County medical examiner's office. He said the woman was S-foot-7, weighed 207 pounds and was wearing white jogging shoes and blue jeans. She also wore a jean jacket with a hood and a red and white plaid flannel shirt. "She had blue eyes and brown hair," Eskew said.

Anyone with information should call the medical examiner's office at 730-4400. OFFICER FATALLY SHOOTS MAN: An Atlanta police officer shot and killed a man Saturday who lunged at him with a knife, jAtlanta police Sgt. J.J. James said. Curtis Watts, 27, died of multiple gunshot wounds at 12:06 a.m.

at his residence on Rankin Street Northeast. The identity of the officer, who has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, was not disclosed. Police responded to a request from Watts' common-law wife, who ize he's a kidnap victim," FBI Special Agent Dan Vogel of Oklahoma City said. "No question, this is a bizarre case, but our top priority right now is to find Michael." Among Floyd's possessions at the time of his arrest was a oneway bus ticket to Louisville from Atlanta, Vogel said. "We know he has associates in Georgia and has been in and out of there on sever armed with a handgun, handcuffed the school's principal to a tree and escaped in his car.

Floyd was arrested Thursday in Louisville, where he worked as a used-car salesman, but Michael was not with him and has yet to be found. "We believe there are many people, quite possibly in Georgia, who have seen this child, know where he is but don't real Michael Hughes ementary school in Choctaw, Okla. Federal agents said Floyd, I.I Good old days are back again in Gwinnett tiad fled the residence saying that Watts had assaulted her. When police arrived, "Watts was holding a very large butcher knife, pressed to his throat, and repeatedly advanced and retreated," i Is James said. Officers tried repeatedly to get Watts to put the knife idown, but then Watts made a final thrust toward the officers, the sergeant said.

"He went at them in an aggressive position and was Vintaee vantaee: shot and died of the injuries." i MAN DIES IN TRUCK CRASH: A 28-year-old Hampton man pas killed at 2:30 a.m. Saturday when his pickup truck jumped a curb and struck a tree, said Clavton County nnlir.fi Lt. Dmi Jewett. Nancy Stroup of Stone Mountain peers into a 1 924 Model A Ford on Saturday at the Vin- tage Classics Festival at ie King Springs Retire- ment Home in Gwin-nett County, where her father is a resident." The blast about the o. past included other classy chassis, ragtime fi 7 Shane Ryan was dnving north on Wildwood Road at high speed (when his tires hit the road's right shoulder, sending his Ford F250 jtruck airborne, Jewett said.

Ryan was killed when the driver's idoor struck a tree. Two passengers in the truck his sister, Corri 'Ryan, and her boyfriend, Chris Caya suffered minor injuries, jJewett said. SLAIN YOUTH MOURNED: About SO people gathered at the corner of Martin Street and Georgia Avenue on Saturday afternoon to pray, sing and lay a wreath for 17-year-old Michael Paul jDozier, a Carver High School senior who was shot to death in the (courtyard of an apartment complex there two years ago. "My son jis dead and he's not coming back, but this is everybody's problem," said Gwen Harris. She was joined in her call to end violence II IUJIW dlll lb II IVTIU CM IS r.v a vintage fashions show.

if if by neighbors with placards commemorating other murder victims who have died in the area. Connie Walton, whose 25-year-old daughter was shot to death in May, said, "We have good days andi we have bad days, and we'll never be healed. But this is a start." XJ Frorn staff reports and our news services KIMBERLY SMITH Staff It Marietta theater ends $26 million suit against Time on holdi display of cartoons Schafer's attorney, said the paty ties are awaiting a clarification ii win of a ruling by federal Judge Jufii Carnes denning the limits for questioning during depositions. WW "The case is basically on hold right now," Schafer said. His suit claims that his busi ness and personal life were damaged by the article and that Time Schafer's suit claims that his business and personal life were damaged by the Time article and that Time knew portions were not true when the story was printed.

Michael Schafer, owner of an Austell floor cleaning business, was surprised in 1992 when friends called to tell him his picture was in Time magazine. His reaction turned to anger when he learned that the accompanying article identified him as David Lovejoy, who, according to Time, was a double agent involved in the 1988 bombing of a jumbo jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people. The magazine soon admitted that the picture was a mistake and that Schafer had nothing to do with the bombing. Schafer recognized the photo as an I.D. snapshot taken in Beirut in 1985 while he was working as a camera operator for the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Today, Schafer is awaiting knew portions were not true when the story was printed because their sources were not trustworthy. Time maintained that the std ry was accurate, but four weeks; after the initial article ran. fii printed a correction acknowl-'jj IwW? ia." edging inai ine pnoiograpn oi Schafer had been used erroneously. How the mistake was made has not been explained. court action on a $26 million libel suit he filed against Time last year.

Denny Webb of Atlanta, jon family values flap Even some staff members at Marietta's in the Square were taken aback by Jthe in-your-face exhibit of editorial cartoons near the lobby water fountain. Mostly from local papers, the sketches included a depiction of the Cobb County Commission as "the missing link," a reference to the county's main export as "intolerance" and some derogatory terms for homosexuals, expressed as the thoughts of county leaders. The collection seemed gutsy for a play-louse that has lost almost a third of its subscribers amid the Cobb County flap about "family values." The exhibit came down during the re- 1 political campaign, but theater management says the timing was coincidental. "There was no political pressure to take it down or anything," says Michael Home, artistic director. "It had just run its course." The only objections came from friends Cho feared offending patrons.

But Home says the cartoons were eant to provoke only laughter: "It was a subtle way of saying, 'If you look at this humorously, you'll really see how ludicrous the issue Meanwhile, Cobb Commissioner Gor-ion Wysong, who wrote the county's anti-jay resolution and instigated a decision to county funding of the arts, was re-elect-id Tuesday. Home's reaction: "I was quite upset, but I'm trying to put this all in perspective." Henry Farber ws Update appears on Sundays. If you have an Idea for an Item, call Henry Farber at 526-5342 or write News Update, Box 4689, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Ca. Ron Mara rx 'i "1 if 1 1 Investigation of phony beauty licenses is expanded censes are phony. And state examining boards have expanded their investiga tion to take a look at manicurist licenses, as well.

Of 4,000 manicurist licensed held in Georgia, 40 to 50 percent $4,200 each. She is suspected of selling them to a Vietnamese middleman, who in turn sold them to aspiring beauticians. The state normally charges $45 for each license. Investigators still have not located the middleman, known only as "Tran," and they say it's likely he is hiding in another state. Jarrell and Nhung have not yet been indicted.

The attorney general's office has mailed out notices informing 119 beauticians that their li In August, a secretary for the state Cosmetology Board was charged in connection with the sale of at least 100 fake beautician licenses in Atlanta's Vietnamese community. Cecelia Jarrell, 61, a 15-year agency employee, was charged with bribery. An alleged accomplice from outside the agency, Jennifer Nhung, 27, was charged with false swearing. Jarrell, who was fired Aug. 5, had admitted receiving $50 for each license, although immigrants allegedly pdid as much as are held by people of Vietnamese descent, said Bill Miller, joint secretary for the boards.

"I don't want to give the in pression that everyone who is Vietnamese and holds a license is holding it illegally, because that's not the case," Miller said. She(ey Em Ing Special Marietta's Theatre In the Square displayed cartoons about Cobb's "family values" debate..