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-c mwattiftilrt awi-i 'vt' 2A Tucson Citizen Friday April 26 1991 family may never know truth about slaying Dumping may bring penalty UA band reprieved for one season By GABRIELLE FIMBRES Citizen Staff Writer death but show officials felt the slaying While the segment focused on the 1982 slaying of 42-year-old Hilda Roche in Alexandria Va it mentioned that Barker was wanted in connection with the death of the daughter of an FBI agent in Arizona Miller said he is relieved at arrest he killed Leesa or not he needs to be in Miller said one of those people who needs to be off the streets so never be able to do that to anybody Law enforcement agents have said Barker may have been involved in as many as six slayings He has only been charged in the Virginia killing While Miller has a Barker killed his daughter he is frustrated that the family may never be sure knowing is the worst he said fact that he did it or didn't do it is what I need to Miller said husband Gary who has remarried and is living in Oregon and her two children have been told of the situation Krista 20 was 2 hen her mother was murdered and Brady 18 was 6 weeks old had a real long talk with Miller said has no real direct memory of anything But Krista is so much like her mother Miller said he hopes Barker's arrest can ease a terribly painful portion of his lives hope this can put it to Miller said been difficult to live with all these years It never gets better It gets worse Time heal all After nearly 18 years of waiting for his killer to be caught retired FBI agent James Miller has a the wait is finally over But the family of Leesa Jo Shaner may never know whether Gregory Richard Barker kidnapped the 22-year-old woman from the Tucson International Airport parking lot on May' 29 1973 murdered her and dumped her body at Fort Huachuca Barker wanted for questioning in connection with murder since 1983 was arrested yesterday morning in Phoenix after the national television show on Wednesday aired a segment about another slaying that Barker is a suspect in gut feeling is they have the right guy" Miller who now lives in Boulder Colo said in an interview The family used to live in Tucson But Miller knows Barker may never be charged with his slaying "As long as put away what we want Miller said referring to other crimes in which Barker is a suspect Miller said he had known for several years that Barker was a suspect but had any feelings about whether Barker was the killer until the aired saw the gu last night (on and I have a feeling him" Miller said explaining the feeling came from seeing picture and not from any new information in the case Miller said he had urged the show to do a segment on A proposed trip to the Ari-zona-UCLA football game in Los Angeles on Oct 12 will depend 1 on private funding Becher said he also hopes to find money to rehire all the teaching ants Ml UA plans to appoint a commit-tee to study the long-term fund-ing of the band Whether more cuts at the UArJ School of Music for next season will be forthcoming also re-- mains unclear Provost Jack Cole said final budget recom- mendations have not yet been received so no final decisions have been attempting not to cut across the board and at- tempting to find places we can cut that will have the least impact on the tional Cole saidv yesterday Dempsey voiced concerns -about money for athletics UA our reserves be in all-right shape at the end of this year and next he said big hit will come in We project beyond that have some serious deficit prob- 1 lems and we hope that someone will be around to bail us out around that He estimated that cuts in the amount of student fees going to athletics and increases in administrative fees could result in a deficit of up to $35 million over the next five years Continued from 1 A ber games in the afternoon (because of the Dempsey said "But because of this unique situation and the opportunity provided for funding the band decided to Dempsey said the heat won't be a problem for the football team which regularly practices in the afternoons A theme of Sweat For The has been suggested for the event The $82000 provided from the estimated $106000 to $120000 the television deal should earn still is $20000 shy of the original $102000 budget To compensate the band will skip games on the road and some employees will have to be laid off everyone is doing at the university well be tightening our belts a little bit perhaps pacing staff members a little bit less to reduce the numbers slightly hoping to put on the same quality of performance that done in the said UA marching band director Eric Becher He said of the six teaching assistant positions in the band wall be cut The budget does provide money for the band to play at the six home football games as well as at the UA-Arizona State Uni versity game in Tempe on Nov 23 There also be money for the pep band to perform at home basketball games Suspect in 1 973 Tucson killing arrested Continued from 1 A but stressed that Barker is only a suspect in the Shaner case We ant to be too optimistic" said Bagiev who worked on the case before retiring last summer very happy been a fugitive and wanted for questioning for some Asked whether the case was too old to prosecute Bagley responded that it be difficult but it wouldn't be impossible" A press release issued yesterday by the FBI said is a suspect in numerous other murders nation-wide" I he release did not elaborate Barker was indicted by a Prince William County Va grand jury on a murder charge last September in the slaying in Alexandria of Hilda Roche 42 Callahan said Roche and Barker ere social acquaintances Bagley said last year As part of his efforts to find killer Bagley lias said he looked into numerous rapes and murders in other states I le has said he believes the I arson woman was abducted for sex One of the cast's Bagley looked into was the Roche murder in which Barker was the suspect Shaner the 22 year old daughter WMajestkl Barker Bagley of now retired FBI agent James Miller borrowed luer car the night of May 29 1973 The mother of two youngsters drove to Tucson International Airport to pick up her husband Gary lie was arriving from Okinawa where he had been stationed with the AirTorce Shaner never met her husband that night Her car later was found in the airport parking lot her purse in the back seat Shatter's skeleton was found Sept lb 1 10 days after her disappearance in a remote area of Fort Huachuca 70 miles southeast of I ucson In looking into Barker's background Bagley said he learned Batker who was 26 at the time of the killing was a lieutenant at the intelligence school at the time HIGH POWER AUTO REVERSE BASS TREBLE CONTROL! 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