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I'fl'l El Paso Times imml Sunday. SepL 6. 1992 TOO UJIIQraElLl T8t3 victims who thay were and whan tEisy disappeared Fhre-tfay ovUosk far Paso Paso calendar Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Today Monday Precipitation frTTTTT, none Lr Saturday Year to date rarr 9.35 inches 5.18 inches 1.42 inches none Sept 4, 1987. Maria Rosa Casio, 24, a waitress and a topless dancer Average year to date Average for September Total for September when she was 15. At school, she had been enrolled in a program for students with behavioral problems.

She was reported missing Sept 16, 1987. Her body was found Nov. 3. Ivy Susana Williams, 23, who lived in different hotels Temperatures Sept 8 High. 98 90 Km PtwiieM'KW'lWWWWWK'W ,103 in 1948 66 64 Normal high Record high Low Normal low Record low- Low 90s Mid-60s Low 90s Mid-60s Low 60s Mid-60s Mid 90s Mid-60s Mid-90s Mid-60s in the Dallas suburb of Addison.

She was planning to enroll in a community college. She had been visiting a sister in around El .49 in 1984 "Nl Paso and I Raton Upper 70s Watering Gallup Low 80s Texas New Mexico Highs, forecast for Sunday, SepL 6 Santa Fe ea Cbvie Amarlto Upper 80a Houses with addresses ending In an odd number may water before 10 a.m. and after 6 p.m. today. For information on the best day for your address to water, call 594-5510.

Upper SOd Abuquerquo 89 and had a history of arrests for prostitution and possession of drugs. A native of Colorado, she last had Ruidoso Low 80s SDw City TorC Mrd40e Nar90 Alamogordo WIchtaFalls Mid-SOs State forecasts I Cask) juarez when her car was found Aug. 13 abandoned in the middle of an El Paso street She was last seen the day before, when she came to El Paso to mail letters and make a phone call. Her body was found Sept 4, 1987. Desiree Wheatley, 15, of the 10600 block of Tiber, a Las Oucee eCartabad LTSS Mid-lOe Williams Midland MM-90a Dalas Id-Ms I I Jh Cl DflM I mkJ-80s Austin UpptrPOs HOUHM Md-SOs San Antonio ty Benjamin Keck El Paso Times One by one, they began to disappear from the streets of Northeast El Paso in early 1987.

First it was a 14-year-old girl from neighboring Chaparral, N.M., last seen on Valentine's Day. Then a 13-year-old, missing three weeks later. Then nothing until June, when three of them ages 15, 20 and 19 disappeared over a span of 26 days. Police didn't make a connection. The girls were young.

Some had histories of running away. But mothers were alarmed. In late June, one of the mothers, Mary Baker, called the newspaper. A story quoted police as saying there was noth- ing to tie themissing together. By mid-July, the mothers were even more concerned.

"My daughter has never run away from home," Marcia Wheatley insisted about 15-year-old Desiree. Mary Baker feared her daughter, Karen, had been sold into slavery. So the mothers gathered support, made signs and marched at the foot of the Stanton Street bridge. "Where are our girls? We want them found now!" read a sign Wheatley carried. As the summer progressed, there would be mora disappearances.

And then the bodies skeletal remains, really started to crop up In the desert They were Identified as: Karen laker, 20, of the 4500 block of Arlen. She was student at H.E. Charles Junior High. She disappeared on the last day of school, June 2, 1987. Her had al- ill contact with her family when she mailed a postcard to them April 1, 1987.

Aluminum can collectors discovered her body March 14, 1988, about a half-mile from tne grave sites of the other bodies, after police had called off their search. She is the only person whose cause of death is known. The indictment says she was stabbed. In addition to the six whose bodies have been found, three remain missing and investigators have said they believe they were also victims of the North- 1 east desert killer. The missing are: Showers Rain "Trms Sunny KvX-ttvA i Brownsville MO-80S Flurries Snow Ice Cloudy PL Cloudy New Mexico Southwest mountains: Today and Labor Day, mostly sunny days, clear at night Silver City: high today, mid-80s; low today, low 50s.

Ruidoso: high, low 80s; low, low 40s. South-central mountains: Today and Labor Day, mostly sunny days, clear at mgnt Ruidoso: high, low 80s; low, low 40s. South-central and southwest valleys: Today and Labor Day, mostly sunny days, clear at night Truth or Consequences: high, near 90; low, upper 50s. Deming high, low 90s; low, upper 50s. Las Cruces: high, low 90s; low, near 60.

Alamogordo: high, near 90; low, near 60. Southeast plains: Today and Labor Day, mostly sunny days, clear at night Hobbs and Lovington: highs, mid-90s; lows, mid-60s. Roswell and Artesia: highs, mid-90s; lows, mid-60s. Carlsbad: high, mid-90s; low, mid-60s. Extended statewide forecast Tuesday through Thursday Fair to partly cloudy skies, slight chance of thunderstorms Thursday afternoon mainly near the mountains.

Highs: 70s to lower 80s in the mountains with upper 70s to lower 90s elsewhere. Lows: 30s and 40s in the mountains with mostly 50s to mid-60s elsewhere. Texas extended forecast Panhandle: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs: lower to mid 80s and lows around 60. Thursday, mostly fair.

Highs: upper 80s. Lows: lower 60s. Permian Basin: Fair. Highs upper 80s to around 90. Lows: mid-60s.

Concho ValleyEdwards Plateau: Fair. Highs: lower 90s. Lows: upper 60s to near 70. WheatJey lowed her to stay out past curfew. Her body was found Oct 20, 1987.

fl Dawn Maria Smith, 14, of the 6100 block of Quail, a Today' sunrise1, eonesT" Moon's phat SL-J I Sunrise Sunset 1 6:44 s.m. 7:24 p.m. Sept 11 Sept 19 Sept 2S Oct. 3 Mew Mexico higha, lowe and precipitation Saturday's high and low temperatures and Hobbs ninth-grader at Parkland High School. Although she had run away from home in June she had kept in con precipitation around New Mexico: Mno none none none none none 42 40 61 41 s.

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Her life had been mired In personal Eroblems, ut her mother, Mary Baker, said Karen Marjorle Knox, 14, of Chaparral, N.M., last seen Feb. 14, 1987. a Melissa Alanlz, 13, of El Paso, last seen March 7, Due to computer problems, the national forecast map wa3 not available for publication. Eakr 17, of tne 3600 block of Fillmore, I chronic runaway since she wss 12. She dropped Out of Henderson Middle School Vasquez-Dismukes 1987.

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Portland, Ore. Providence Pueblo Raleigh Rapid City Reno Richmond Roanoke Sacramento guilty to both charges and was sentenced to 20 years on each count, to be served concurrently. He was paroled Jan. 15, 1987. A psychiatrist who examined Wood in 1980 wrote to then-District Judge Enrique Peria that "there appears there is a character disorder, paranoid type, which is long-standing." The doctor wrote that Wood displayed "considerable hostility as well as paranoid insecurity." Other observations: "(Wood) states that he started heterosexual activities at the age of 12 and he feels that he ia very successful with girls." "He has a history of alcohol as well as marijuana use since early adolescence." "He gets easily frustrated when he cannot find words to describe either events or feelings he frequently finds himself frustrated and stating that, 'It makes me mad when I can't remember, it makes me mad when I think about this, it makes me mad when people say things like A report by a psychologist, said Wood at the time had a "full-scale" IQ of 64 and that his potential maximum IQ was 80, "at the high end of the range of mild mental retardation." rest was obtained by datectives who had been anlinad exclusively to the desert deaths case.

Wood waa convicted of aggravated sexual assault of the prostitute March 17, 198 three days after the sixth and final body wai found in the Northeast desert, Ha waa aentenced to 50 years in prison, Thi kidnapping charge waa droppsd. What emerged about Wood from old court records in the five months between his arrest and rape conviction showed a man with anti-social tendencies and the record of a three-time convicted sex offender. Court and prison records showed Wood pleaded guilty on Jan. 12, 1977, to a charge of indecency with a child. The incident occurred Aug.

30, 1976, and involved a 12-year-old girl, Wood was aentenced to five years in prison and given credit for 93 days served in the county jail. He was released in January 1980. Within three months of his release, Wood was back in jail, charged with raping a 19-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl. The assaults occurred eight days apart. June 19, 1980, he pleaded By Benjamin Keck Cl Paso Times David Leonard Wood had been paroled from prison about a month before girU and young women started disappearing from Northeast El Paao in early 1977.

Because ha had served taven yeara after pleading guilty to raping two tfrli, ages 19 and 13. in 1980, police considered him a natural suspect when bodies of the missing girla began to turn up in the desert in September 1987. But detectives would not comment publicly on whether he was a suspect. Four of the six bodies buried in the Northeast desert, east of the 12000 block of McCombs, already had been found when El Paso homicide detectives arrested Wood the night of Oct 23, 1987. He was charged with raping a prostitute in that lama area of desert and with kidnapping a second prostitute and trying to rape her near a brick plant on the West Side.

While detectives insisted that the charges against Wood were unrelated to the desert deaths, the media reported he was a ma- jor suspect in the serial killings because the warrant for his ar Satnrcay't extranet Saturday's high was 106 at Palm Springs, Calif. The low was 27 at Truck-ee. Calif. The weather World weather Temperatures and weather conditions from midnight to midnight on previous day. Wthr Forecasts and data by the National Weather Service Source: Associated Press Recorded El Paso report: (915) 562-4040 Weather service radio: 162.475 megahertz 94 75 edy 57 46 edy 63 43 clr 82 64 79 61 dr 90 75 clr 63 43 edy 70 63 edy 88 70 dr 90 75 edy 55 48 edy 66 52 edy 88 77 dr 91 79 edy 72 50 dr 63 50 64 57 edy New Delhi Oslo Pans Re Rome San Juan Santiago Sao Paulo Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tel Avw Tokyo Toronto Vienna Warsaw 93 73 61 52 104 79 61 46 63 57 54 43 90 77 63 45 91 86 93 70 81 50 61 50 90 59 84 75 73 54 72 61 66 54 dr clr clr edy edy edy edy edy clr clr edy clr edy clr edy Cairo Copenhagen Dhahran Dublin Frankfurt Geneva Havana Helsinki Hong Kong Jerusalem Johannesburg London Madrid Mania Mexico City Montreal Moscow 59 48 91 72 91 81 84 54 82 64 88 75 64 54 84 77 70 44 61 43 68 46 dr edy dr edy clr edy dr dr Amsterdam Athens Bangkok Barcelona Beiting Beirut Bertin Bermuda Bogota Brussels Buenoa Aires Television report: The Weather Channel Cable Channel 39 21 Paaa imea President Chrle Jenien difaPvisi-st Thotma Fentsn Managing Editor Paula Moore AcVerttelng Director Michael Price No.

250 USPS170-S60 Vol 112 BSN 0746368 new state sentencing guidelines went into effect. The trial was delayed then after Peca ruled prosecutors could not use certain fiber evidence vacuumed from Wood's cpr. Prosecutors filed an appeal, setting back the trial until Jan. 21, 1992. An appeals court did not rule until February, resetting the date for May 12.

But in April, Peca granted a change of venue and the search for another city to conduct the trial delayed it further. What the investigation and prosecution of the case has cost El Paso County so are cannot yet be precisely determined. But records show the City Council put up $75,000 for a police investigation shortly after the bodies started appearing; $30,000 in county money was approved to hire a psychiatrist to examine Wood; defense lawyers and investigators are appointed and will be paid by the county; and at least 200 witnesses will have to be reimbursed for travel, meals and lodging. what police said was an unrelated rape charge. Wood was convicted of that charge that he raped a prostitute in the same area of desert where the bodies were found and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

Although he was considered a suspect in the serial killings from the beginning, he was not indicted until July 13, 1990 almost three years after the first body was found. The indictment came after El Paso police detectives and prosecutors talked with Wells and other former cellmates of Wood. The trial that begins Tuesday is the sixth to be set in the case since the indictment. A year ago, lawyers were a day into jury selection in El Paso when proceedings were halted because of a dispute over evidence. Judge Peter Peca initially set Jan.

14, 1991, as a trial date for Wood, but defense attorneys asked for more time to prepare. Peca reset the trial for Aug. 21, 1991, then changed it to Sept. 5 because he wanted to wait until 846-6104 846-6108 546-6332 546-6182 Cofrtrofler Richard Bea Wood Continued from 1A actor Scott Glenn's portrayal of FBI Agent Jack Crawford in last year's blockbuster movie, "The Silence of the Lambs." Also subpoeaned is Randy Wells, a former prison cellmate of Wood who two years ago told authorities that Wood described the torture and killing of the desert victims in graphic detail. Wells once told a Fort Worth newspaper that Wood described how he tied the victims between a tree and the bumper of his pickup and stretched them before he raped and choked them.

In an interview with the El Paso Times July 23, 1990, Wood denied telling Wells anything about his case. He accused police of making deals with convicted felons to set him up for crimes he did not commit. Wood has maintained his innocence in the serial killings since his arrest Oct. 23, 1987, on CtrcuiatJon Director Tom Bibs A memeer oT ttvi GenneB Group pubUVwd OWly and Sunday by El Peso rimes He, P.O. Bat 20, Pmo, Teus 79999.

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