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"I would like to know before I die, that's for sure," he said. But the retired dock worker said he's not sure what to think of claims being made.by Edward Harold Bell, a 72-year-old Texas prison inmate who claims he killed nearly a dozen young girls found dead in southeast Texas in the 1970s including Pitchford's 16-year-old daughter, Kimber- ly. Part of him wants to believe that Bell had something to do with her unsolved killing, but he also thinks Bell may turn out to be a "kook." The aunt of another slain girl also expressed mixed emotions, saying it makes her question whether the suspect convicted in her niece's death was the right man. Investigators said that while the Bell's claims aren't entirely new and were previously investigated, they are looking at them anew after he told the Houston Chronicle he was responsible for the deaths of as many as 11 girls. The bottom line is, Ed Bell has said these things (before).

Is it fodder? I don't know. I've never been able to prove any- from suburban Houston, was convicted of the two girls' murders and died in prison in 2000. His attorneys said during appeals that Self was wrongly accused, and the Houston Chronicle reported earlier this summer that at least two investigators, a Galveston police officer and a former Harris County prosecutor, believed that Self might have been the wrong man. Echoing Elmer Pitchford's sentiments, Walker said she hoped investigators would go back and talk to Bell but that she wasn't sure whether he should be given immunity. Before Bell's claims resurfaced this week, she had no doubt that Self was responsible for her niece's death.

Now she's unsure. "The things this man is saying seem like they are true but I don't know This is unsettling. It's a case of mixed emotions. Is this guy telling the truth or is he a nut job or what?" killer Henry Lee Lucas, who told police he killed as many as 600 people but later recanted. Lucas died in a Texas prison in March 2001, after his death sentence was commuted.

"Several aspects of Ed Bell's story have been investigated in the last 10 years and I never found anything," Kincheloe said. "It's not like people have turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to Ed Bell. We just can't find anything." But the convicted killer's claims did shock Dotti Walker, the aunt of 14-year-old Sharon Shaw, one of the young girls that Bell didn't name but could be tied to. Walker, 77, said she was surprised because another man was convicted for her niece's murder, as well as the slaying of Shaw's friend, 14-year-old Rhonda Renee Johnson. The two girls were abducted in 1971 after going to the beach in Galveston.

Michael Self, a mechanic I vN 1 T. thing he has said," said Capt. Chris Kincheloe of the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office, which has four of the unsolved deaths for which Bell is claiming or hinting at responsibility, including Kim-berly Pitchford. Bell is serving a 70-year prison sentence for the 1978 killing of a Houston-area Marine who tried to stop him front masturbating in front of a group of girls. But in recent interviews with the newspaper, he described a string of additional cases from 1971 to 1976.

Bell claimed he killed four girls whose names he knew, all of them teenagers, including Kimberly Pitchford. He also described four other victims he said were killed in pairs, and gave incomplete information on three others. The cases involved girls who were between the ages of 12 and 19 and were taken from towns and rural roads in Brazoria, Harris and Galveston counties. Investigators in those counties, prompted by Bell's claims to the newspaper, have aid they are reviewing evidence in the mostly unsolved killings. Bell said he would provide proof to back up his claims but only if he's given immunity.

Capt. Jeff Heyse, spokesman for the Galveston Police Department, which is reviewing two of the unsolved layings, said he found it "interesting that Bell wants immunity when he is already serving a life sentence. "We're looking at where we can go from here Heyse said. The newspaper reported that prosecutors in Galveston and Harris County received letters of confession from Bell in 1998, but he never was in-dieted because detectives were unable to verify hie claims or because of cost considerations related to cold-case investigations. Harris County prosecutors apparently lost copies of Bell's Prosecutors in Galveston did not return a telephone call seexinj oesraent from The AssockJ Fwss, while ti Harris County District Attorney's OCc corn-cent.

Kincheloe said he read the letter that Bell sent to Galveston prosecutors and found "there was nothing there that we could use in our cases." He said Brazoria County seat two investigators in 20C3 to speak with call about two stain fWs.lnrt Can wouldn't talk, i Kischsloe said he woaders ii Bell is "running a Lucas scam," in reference to serial MORGAN CITY ROTARY CLUB members has planned for completion. From left are heard from Mayor Tim Matte about current Rotary President Lea Hebert, Matte and Pro-and future projects the City of Morgan City gram Director Louis Tamporello Jr. Paul P. Gob. suspect says he thought dead friend was drunk DENVER (AP) A man accused of driving around Denver with a dead friend in the back of a car and running up a bar tab on the friend's account says he thought the man was drunk, not deceased.

Robert Young, 43, faces charges induding abusing a corpse. He spoke before a court hearing Thursday in Denver. Investigators allege Young and Mark Rubinson, 25, drove around with the body of their 43-year-old friend Jeffrey Jarrett in their car in August "In my mind, I wanted to believe he was passed out. I didnt want to call 911," Young said Thursday. "I didn't want to believe he was dead." According to police reports, the night on the town started when Young went to Jarrett's home and found him unresponsive.

But rather than call the authorities, police say, Young went to find Rubinson. The duo returned to Jarrett' home and put him into Rubinson's SUV and headed to a nightspot where they spent more than an hour drinking, leaving Jarrett's body in the vehicle, according to police records. Police say the two men used Jarrett's card to pay for the drinks on Aug. 27, noting they did not have Jarrett's consent." Young said he realized Jarrett was dead while leaving the bar and the two men took him back to his home after iMtilying police. They then went to a strip joint, where Young took $400 from an ATM, police said.

Young said Jarrett owed him money and gave him his credit card. Young rejected comparisons to the plot of the 18S9 nmie "Weekend at Bernie's." He said the ordeal only lasted four hours, and insisted there was no comparison to the movie. "It's not a joking matter. He d4erves better than that," Young said. tha 1989 Hollywood coin dead at his ritzy beachfront home and escort his body around town, attempting to save tha weeka Rubinson and Young arent charpdtaJaurotft death.

Young was scheduled to be urni-ned Thiffadsy, but hk attorney was granted an eirtension to Nor. after she told tha jud autlvor-itiss are still waiting for the of sa autopsy to determine how and when Jerrett died. i aquin, jr. As your current Parish President, I would like to thsnk the residents of St. Mary Parish for allowing me the opportunity to serve you for the past 5 Yi years.

I humbly ask for your support to continue ss your Parish President for another 4 years of service. Early voting will continue from now until October 15th. IGI Pleaie remember to vote 63 Paul p. Naqutnt, tin. i Parish president! hub row ur raw waqviw, in..