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INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL, LANCASTER, PA. A-4 FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1998 FROM PAGE ONE Lambert: Pants Intelligencer Journal photo by Suzette Wenger Looper, center, and dwarfs The Comet, the white, wooden coaster to the rear. Atop the first hill of Hersheyparks just-completed Great Bear roller coaster, the tubular track seems to envelop the sooperdooper- Hershey: Bear of a roller coaster Continued from A-1 weighed about 190 pounds. Shirk testified that he held up Yunkins pants at Lamberts 1992 trial to show Stengel, who presided at the trial, that the pants were extremely large for Lambert to have worn. John Show, the murder victims father, was in the courtroom Thursday and saw the black sweatpants Shirk was shown by Rainville.

Outside the courtroom, Show said, Im confused. I dont think those are the right sweatpants. Last year, U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell concluded Lancaster County prosecutors had indeed switched the sweatpants. The federal judge listed that as one of 25 acts of prosecutorial misconduct aimed at framing Lambert for Shows murder.

Dalzell overturned Lamberts first-degree murder conviction and freed her last April, but she returned to ail in February because a federal appeals court reversed Dalzells ruling. To bolster her presentation Thursday, Rainville also showed Shirk a pair of flowered stretch pants that prosecutors said Lambert was wearing when East Lampeter Township police arrested her for Shows murder in December 1991. Shirk identified the flowered stretch pants as the same ones he held up next to the black sweatpants at Lamberts trial to show that the black ones were much bigger. Rainville displayed the two pairs of pants next to each other. To Shirks surprise, the black sweatpants were a little more than an inch shorter than the black stretch pants.

Rainville asked Shirk if he would have compared the sizes of the flowered stretch pants and black sweatpants for Judge Stengel at Lamberts trial if the sweatpants were shorter. No, not if they were shorter, Shirk replied. My whole purpose was they (the sweatpants) were so much larger, and how unbelievable it was that Lisa would have been wearing those sweatpants. Last week, John A. Kenneff, the assistant district attorney who prosecuted Lambert in 1992, testified that he had no independent recollection of the clothing Lambert wore the day Show was killed.

Yunkin may have worn the sweatpants above his ankles, Kenneff said. Rainville questioned Shirk about another major point of Lamberts appeal, that Kenneff allegedly intimidated an Allentown forensic pathologist retained as a defense witness at Lamberts trial. Shirk recalled Thursday that just before Lamberts trial he retained Dr. Isidore Mihalakis to provide an expert opinion on whether Show could have spoken the name of her killer to her mother, Hazel Show, before she died. After telling Kenneff he hired Mihalakis, Shirk said the prosecutor became angry and upset because the pathologist was under contract to perform autopsies for the county.

However, the contract had no exclusivity clause precluding Mihalakis from being a defense witness. Kenneff asked Shirk if he could telephone the pathologist to speak with him about his decision to testify for Lambert. Shirk said he the World War I fighter pilot who invented this evasive maneuver, Max Immelman. Airsickness bag, anyone? On Thursday, you just had to stick out your hand at the end of the ride. One of the Ringling Bros, and Barnam Bailey clowns had a fist full.

The clowns were in town for the circus, which runs through this weekend. Speaking of clowns, theres something rather unsettling about tugging down on your shoulder harness, looking left and seeing really big shoes and striped socks when youre about to taunt death. tubular steel that its developers say is as close to a fighter jet experience as most people will ever have. Named after the constellation Ursa Major, the Bear flies at nearly a mile a minute. The 175-second ride opens up with a vertical drop of 125 feet, or about 12 'A stories.

The ride has seven elements. In addition to the first drop, there is a 100-foot loop; a zero-G, inverted loop called an Immel-man; a 360-degree barrel roll; two S-turns; and a 360-degree flat roll. The Immelman is named after Continued from A-1 The solution? Hersheypark, on Saturday. Get ready to grab some Gs, get inverted and swing and sway a jet jockeys way. Thats right.

On this ride you sit in swing-like seats hanging from the track above before being shot to a height of more than 100 feet for the first drop. Now in its 92nd season, the areas hottest amusement theme park unveiled its newest ride to the media Thursday. The Great Bear. A towering mass of twisting Not that the upturned red nose and lime green hair does a whole lot more to boost ones confidence, or the forever smile. He died with a gaggle of clowns, now thats an epitaph.

From the clowns standpoint, He died with a gaggle of reporters probably isnt a whole lot better. Designed and manufactured by the Swiss firm of Bolliger Ma-billard, the Bear was a bit costly $13 million making it the largest investment in the history of Hersheypark. The premier developer of inverted coasters, the company formed in 1988 and has built more than 20 such coasters worldwide. Beginning last December, more than 2 million pounds of steel were carried from the side of the grass air strip at the foot of the Hotel Hershey into the park, as engineers pieced together what appeared to be a big boys ultimate Erector Set. The 2,800 feet of track are anchored by more than 4,500 yards of cement.

One cement truck holds 10 yards of concrete. Located in the Minetown area, adj acent to the Kissing Tower, the states first inverted coaster interacts with the sooperdooper-Looper and the Coal Cracker rides at the park. The ride will run two trains, each carrying 32 passengers, giving it a capacity of about 1,300 riders per hour. The Great Bear is Hershey-parks sixth coaster, giving it the distinction of having the most coasters of any park in the state. The Great Bear will make you Hersheypark Happy.

You can take that to the bank. Just dont forget your airsickness bag. Double Pedestal Oak Table told the prosecutor not to call the pathologist until after Lamberts trial was over. I was certainly under the impression he wasnt going to make the call, Shirk said. When Kenneff was questioned last week, the prosecutor admitted calling the pathologist against Shirks wishes, but said he did not influence the doctor to change his testimony.

Kenneff said he contacted Mihalakis because he was under the assumption the pathologists contract with the county did not permit him to testily for Lancaster County defendants in criminal cases. Although Mihalakis informed Shirk he could not determine with a reasonable degree of certainty that Shows throat slashing would have rendered her incapable of speaking to her mother, Shirk said the pathologist told him his personal opinion was the victim would not have been able to utter the dying declaration, Michelle did it. Shirk said he expected Mihalakis to state his personal opinion about Shows inability to speak when he called him to testify at Lamberts trial. Asked by Rainville if the lawyer would have put Mihalakis on the stand knowing he was going to say just the opposite, Shirk said, Absolutely not. I was angry, surprised, Shirk recalled about his reaction to Mihalakis testimony six years ago.

Mr. (Alan) Goldberg (another lawyer assisting him) leaned over to me and said, Weve got to get him off the stand as fast as we can. Rainville led Shirk through about 60 items, some physical evidence and some police reports, to determine if prosecutors shared the information with him prior to Lamberts trial. Among the items Shirk said prosecutors did not disclose to him were three things he called extremely important. They are: Presented with a scent from Tabitha Bucks sweater, a bloodhound retrieved a rope from the Susquehanna River for police.

Kathleen Bayan, a former neighbor of Shows, told police she saw a man matching Yunkins description driving a car like Yunkins erratically inside the condominium complex the morning Show was killed. She said there were two passengers inside the car. Hazel Show told police she saw a car matching Yunkins driving inside the complex, contradicting Yunkins story that he picked up Lambert and Buck outside the complex the morning of the murder. Beyond a doubt, I would have put Mrs. Bayan on the stand knowing what she had said, Shirk said.

Lamberts trial lawyer could have used any incriminating evidence he could gather about Yunkin. Shirk said he had the 29 Questions, a written document Lambert and Yunkin passed between them at the Lancaster County Prison. He said he believed the document proved Yunkin was in Shows condo and had a hand in her murder. Shirk told Rainville he gave Kenneff the document prior to Lamberts trial, hoping he could arrange for her to plead guilty to third-degree murder, in exchange for her testimony to try to convict unkin of first-degree murder. Kenneff said last week he rejected Shirks offer because up to that point Lambert had maintained Yunkin was not involved in Shows murder.

When Yunkin testified against Lambert he said the document was altered by pencil and eraser marks, two things proven untruthful by handwriting experts for the prosecution and defense. Lamberts lawyers have accused Kenneff of using perjured testimony from Yunkin to help convict Lambert of killing Show. Kenneff said Yunkin flunked a polygraph test regarding his explanation of the 29 Questions. Because of that, his original plea agreement to a charge of hindering apprehension was upgraded to third-degree murder. He was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in jail, while Lambert and Buck received life sentences.

Lambert was convicted of fust-degree murder and Buck of second-degree murder. In other testimony Thursday, Dr. John Smialek, Maryland's chief medical examiner, said Show had already died from a knife wound in her back when her throat was slit. Smialeks theory of Shows death is different from what the county's pathologist concluded from the autopsy on Show in 1 99 1 Also, Smialek. a forensic pathologist, testified the seventy of her neck wound made it impossible for Show to tell her mother who killed her.

Smialeks testimony was consistent with what Dr. Michael Baden said Wednesday. Baden, one of the world leading forensic pathologists, testified he was more than 99 percent certain Show could not have spoken her killers name to her mother before dying. i with 4 Chairs Solid Oak Curved Glass Curio with I Glass Shelves Two 1 8" leaves (one self store) Opens to 96" Deaths: Police probe Continued from A-1 been charged with criminal homicide in the death of Heather A. Greth, whose body was found in Cocalico Creek on Monday.

Police said Chapman admitted killing Greth, 20, of Womelsdorf, ana then recanted his confession. Right now those charges do stand, Lancaster County District Attorney Joseph C. Madenspach-er said Thursday. The body of Craig A. Bowers, Greths 22-year-old boyfriend, was found in the creek on Tuesday.

No charges have been brought in connection with Bowers death. We have insufficient evidence to indicate exactly how Mr. Bowers died, Madenspacher said. Greth was found in the creek near the border of Ephrata Borough and Ephrata Township. Bowers, an Ephrata High School lisrdwGod Farm Table: E)rive in the borough, was found dead several hundred yards upstream from where Greth was pulled from the creek.

Family and friends have said the couple was walking Bowers' Labrador Retriever near the creek when they disappeared. Chapmans mother, Pat Reber, of Ephrata. has talked to her son since his arrest and said he maintains his innocence. She said she has talked to him by phone at the Lancaster Countv Prison, where he is being held without bail. Reber said Chapman has a learning disability and may not have understood his legal rights during questioning.

Chapman was arrested Monday night after offering police several versions of how he discovered the womans body, according to court documents. Madenspacher met with Ephrata Borough and Township police investigators in Ephrata Thursday to discuss the case. Madenspacher said no cord or rope was found at the scene. In his confession, which he quickly denied, Chapman spoke of strangling Greth with a cord. As for any hard evidence, Madenspacher said that police have no smoking gun type of thing.

He said the evidence they do have is circumstantial and that they are assembling the case piece by piece. Police served a search warrant at Lancaster County Prison Thursday to obtain the clothes Chapman had been wearing at the time of his arrest, sources said. Madenspacher said there was no obvious trauma to Greth or Bowers. People can drowm accidentally with nooutside forces, or people can drown through a force directed by some other person. he said.

I talked to a pathologist today and he indicated to me that in certain cases there can be a strangulation, and there would be really no overt trauma or evidence of that strangulation. Police also canvassed the neighborhood near the creek Thursday and stopped passing cars, looking for witnesses who may have seen joggers or people walking a Labrador Retriever at the time of the drowmngs..