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Sunday, March 21, 1993 Times-News, Twin Pqlls, Idaho A-3 Ice Who failed in Randy Walker 6 murder: Police or jury? Ice station Researchers drifted on an ice floe to explore Antarctica's Weddell Sea. Route of the floe: 55 50 baths and washed clothes using buckets of melted snow. The unheated outhouse was built from boxes, planks and foam insulation. Solid waste was stored in plastic bags and removed when the expedition ended. Expedition members enjoyed their wannest weather 29 degrees Fahrenheit in February, late in the Antarctic summer.

Temperatures dropped to 33 degrees below zero, with wind chills to minus 60. Amy Ffield, a Lamont-Doher-ty oceanographer, shuddered when she recalled middle-of-the-night trips to the outhouse. "It's minus 25 degrees and if someone was in there you had to stand around and wait." Early in the expedition, the researchers discovered that their Uruguayan suppliers had provided summer fuel instead of winter fuel, Wilkniss said. At 28 below zero, the fuel turned gelatinous, knocking out Continued from A1 spent all four months there. The Americans rotated on and off the floe by plane or icebreaker.

"You tend to think of the world as being tame and explored, and here we were in this corner of the world nobody's been in" for 77 years, Gordon said. He said the Weddell Sea produces cold water that sinks and spreads north beyond the equator, chilling Earth's oceans and influencing climate. The Weddell's ice helps maintain the pole-to-equator temperature difference that creates Earth's weather as heat redistributes itself around the planet. So understanding the Weddell is critical to learning how soon and severely the world's climate will be warmed by the pollution-caused "greenhouse effect," Gordon said. Researchers at Ice Station Weddell lofted scientific bal End Ice Station Weddell June 1,1991 -N 8 Weddell America wef fl I Atlantic I Ocean A Start Ice Station Weddell 2jr" 1 February 1, 1991 A By Brad Bowlin Times-News writer RUPERT Nearly a year after pawnbroker Randy Walker died in a pool of blood outside his Rupert Pawnshop, the person who stabbed him remains free.

A mysterious handprint laid in what appears to be blood may be the best link to the murderer, but the Minidoka County Sheriff still believes the man acquitted by a jury last month is the best suspect. "When we arrested (Jerry) Fino I believed he was our best suspect, and I still believe that," Sheriff Paul Fries said in a recent interview. "The jury found him innocent, and I accept that," Fries said. "We can't keep retrying the case." The Constitution prevents someone from being tried twice for the same offense. Several witnesses at Fino's trial, including a woman who entered the pawnshop during the attack, said they saw a white male with shoulder-length brown hair in the area.

Fino, 18, is Hispanic and has black hair. "Without a doubt, people saw another person over near the pawnshop" after the murder, Fries said. After the trial, police received a few telephone calls that may help the investiga tion, Fries said, but he declined to elaborate. Fino was arrested and bound over for trial largely because his fingerprint was found on the shop's glass counter top. A witness identified Fino in a photo line-up as the man he had seen running from the area at about the time of the killing.

But the witness, Thad Stevenson of Boise, testified at Fino's trial that he could not be sure Fino was the person he had seen. Fries won't say why Fino and one other suspect were the only people checked for matching fingerprints. "There was a reason for that," Fries said, but since that evidence was not allowed in court, he said it would be "inappropriate" to discuss it in public. The only known witness to the attack, Beulah Knutson of Burley, gave what appear to be conflicting statements about what happened. Knutson received two knife wounds inside the pawnshop before escaping.

She was interviewed at the hospital later that day. She described a single attacker with blackish hair "maybe with brown highlights." i Kniitson's testimony in later hearings indicated two people besides Walker may have been inside the shop, and she described the assailant as having long, dark, brown hair. She declined to be interviewed for this story. "She may have been confused on some of the statements but to expect her to recall all the details in that situation is almost asking for an impossibility," Fries said of Knutson's testimony. Investigator Terry Quinn said in his "probable cause" statement for the arrest of Fino that "facts indicate that another individual in addition to Mr.

Fino was involved in the crime." A bloody palm print on a counter does not match prints of Walker, Fino or Knutson. Fries said he will continue to search for clues to the identity of the person who laid that palm print. He denied speculation that Fino was arrested because Fries felt pressured to act quickly after the Walker murder to help his chances in a political race. Fries was Rupert's police chief when the murder occurred and was running for county sheriff. "I don't work under political pressure," Fries said.

"If we hadn't felt we had a good case, we would not have gone forward." MAP DETAIL LCtU Ice Station Weddell heaters. Expedition members repeatedly were awakened by sub-zero temperatures arid had Sibirny The Endurance drifted 570 miles in to restart heaters. "You'd be amazed how fast one can leap out of bed and put on four to six layers of clothing," Martinson said. The expedition had no serious injuries, nine months until it was crushed by ice and sank. Shackleton and his crew survived the ordeal.

Ice Station Weddell roughly followed the Endurance's route. only frostbite and bruises. The nearest help was a flight away in The expedition started in January 1992 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Russian Chile. But the scientists stayed in touch 1 a i i i i 1 icebreaker Akademik Fedorov ferried the with their homes and laboratories.

loons, drilled holes in the ice and collected marine plants and animals. But the work didn't distract them from their surreal surroundings. "It was ice as far as you could see when, you could see," said oceanographer Douglas Martinson, the ice station's chief scientist during March and April 1992. "The immensity of the landscape is indescribable." The eastern Weddell Sea has been explored repeatedly since the 1930s. The western edge is clogged by ice year-round.

Gordon said the last time it was explored from anything other than a plane was in 1915, when Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance got stuck in the ice, thwarting the British explorer's plan to walk across Antarctica. scientists to the Weddell, where they used-helicopters and bulldozers to establish camp the next month. Ice Station Weddell comprised prefabricated huts, tents, electrical generators, a mess hall, outhouse, sauna and fuel depot scattered across the floe. It lacked running water. Residents built a makeshift shower.

Some took sponge "We had a telephone and a fax machine and full electronic mail and radio com- munications," even an answering may chine, Martinson said. Relaxation included watching video i tapes of the TV series "Northern Expo- sure" and the 1982 film "The Thing," about an alien creature killing scientists at a polar research station. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING PHONE 733-0931 IMurder MOO MOO Look Who's 32 search for clues to Bailey's killer. "This case is still unsolved and continues to be our only unsolved homicide in this jurisdiction in a good many years," then-Police Chief Roger Tucker said in a 1962 letter to a New York State Police official. Whoever killed Bailey took about $50 from the cash register, along with some antifreeze and engine oil.

Police tracked down a couple of suspects, but neither was charged with the crime. Now, as then, police departments must deal with a lack of manpower and the constant flow of new crimes that divert their attention from aging murder cases, Kistler said. "We decided we could get nothing further by talking to the same people over again," Kistler said, referring to the Alvarado murder. "Until someone is willing to come forward, we're kinda at a stand-still." tance telephone calls to other law enforcement agencies can tax the financial resources of small rural police departments, Tilson said. Even nationwide television appeals for clues have led only to blind alleys.

"Unsolved Mysteries" filmed a story on Smith's murder that drew more than 500 calls when it first aired, Tilson said. A repeat broadcast brought in 250 calls. All those leads were followed up to no avail, Tilson said. The show aired again a few weeks ago, but only one call came in, he said. "Like any crime, the longer it goes, the harder it is to find clues," Tilson said.

Two years before Smith's body was found, young hikers found a man's skeleton in the same area. Authorities found evidence of 33 stab wounds in the skeleton and determined the man was Hispanic, aged 30-35 years. Tilson thinks he knows who the victim is, and he may even have a suspect. Investigators contacted the Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City for help, but nothing came of that contact, he said. Another Mexico connection Mexican authorities have arrested the suspects, but he thinks police there have a good idea where they are.

Desert mysteries Northern Nevada officials remain stumped by the murders of three Magic Valley men. Two Twin Falls miners, Russell E. Boyd and LeVirl E. Tolman, were found dead Aug. 20, 1989 in the desert south of Jackpot.

The men died of shotgun blasts to the head while on a one-day recreational mining expedition. Despite television shows and commercials asking for clues, the mystery remains. In February 1988, the body of Terry Jarolimek, 33, of Burley was found along the highway north of Wells, Nev. He had been shot in the back of the head. Sgt.

Jim Black of the Elko County Sheriff Office remains optimistic the Nevada killings will be solved, even though wind and rain destroyed footprints and other evidence that may have helped the investigation. It is not unusual to solve crimes years after they happen, because "somebody gets drunk and mouths off or lets a secret slip, Black said. "It depends on the nature of the per We're All Pullin' For You Happy Birthday, Jeff! SITOFF a if TvrwTMn 1 Continued from A1 Sheriff's Department insists the Magic Valley's number of unsolved murders is not unique. VYou can go through any area of the United States, and you'll find unsolved murders," he said. Scared witnesses Kistler still hopes to solve the November 1991 murder of Edward Al-; varado, 27, in the Pour Haus tavern parking lot.

"There are people out there that saw it," Kistler said, but those people are reluctant to talk to Twin Falls police because they fear for their own lives. Alvarado was shot with a handgun in the face. Rumors about the reasons for the killing range from drug deals gone bad to jealous boyfriends, Kistler said. Anonymous phone calls and police interviews with people who were at the bar that night have revealed a few clues and even possible suspects, but police don't have enough evidence to make an arrest, Kistler said. "We're going to need someone who's willing to testify," he said.

"Someone has got to come forward." Stabbing still unsolved The motive for the April 13, 1992 stabbing of pawnbroker Randy Walker is just as murky for Rupert authorities. Walker died outside the Rupert Pawnshop after being stabbed several times. Police say nothing appeared to have been stolen from the shop. Authorities thought they knew who stabbed Walker when they arrested year-old Jerry Fino and charged him with first-degree murder. But a jury said police had the wrong man and set Fino free.

That leaves Minidoka County Sher-iff Paul Fries with an unsolved murder on his hands, and the only link to the killer may be a bloody palm print left in Walker's pawnshop during the struggle. Few clues Local police have even less to go on when trying to solve other murder mysteries. In July 1991, a family sifting through the dump site near German Lake north of Rupert found a badly decomposed body. A Wyoming crime lab recently fashioned a drawing of what the man's face may have looked like, hoping it would help identify the victim. Authorities believe he was killed by a blow to the head and had been dead for about four years when found.

That is not the only unidentified corpse haunting Minidoka County law enforcement. The burned and dismembered remains of an infant found at the Minidoka County landfill in 1989 caused waves of speculation about murder and satanic ritual sacrifice. The Idaho Attorney General's office announced last year that investigators found no evidence of satanism in connection with the infant dubbed Baby X. Investigators added they are not convinced the infant was murdered. Before Baby Twin Falls County has its own unsolved infant death.

On Dec. 30, 1974, two children playing in a dry irrigation canal three miles south of Twin Falls found a large paper sack. Inside, wrapped in month-old newspapers, was the body of a newborn baby. Numerous puncture wounds caused the child's death, Tilson said. There are few clues to who dumped the child in the canal or why, he said.

More mysteries Two folders in the bottom drawer of Tilson's file cabinet contain clues to two other murder mysteries. A couple taking a morning stroll on May 27, 1987 found a body in the desert near Miracle Hot Springs. Donald Edward Smith, 55, of Hemet, Calif, died of multiple blows to the head. The investigation took local deputies to Denver, where Smith's car was wrecked a few days later, but no arrests were made. Complicated murder investigations that involve trips and lengthy long-dis $189 In Burley, police hope the consulate Solid Oak Executive Office Work Station, Oak T.V.

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