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The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 3

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A3 The Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday November 1993 A3 Wei i Idaho Killer This Wednesday only enjoy great values in our Men's departments Tells of Slaying In Louisiana In 1 7 1 Fit I 0 --N 1 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHREVEPORT La The man who confessed to killing an Idaho newspaper carrier last summer and trying to kill a Pais somi teen-ager last year appar ently has admitted committing murder in Louisiana 17 years ago Authorities said James Edward Wood 45 who formerly lived in Shreveport has told police in Idaho that he raped and murdered a 33-year-old mother of four who was last seen shopping for pre sents on Christmas Eve 1976 It was not until five years later that Shirley Coleman's bones a leather coat a shoe and a bra were discovered by hunters in Caddo Parish A hole the size of a bullet was found in her skull Caddo Parish officials said Wood also admitted to several 'other crimes A native of Florida Wood lived in Shreveport for a number of years and worked as a driver for 'Patrick Industries He went to Idaho to visit relatives in the fall -of 1992 In September he pleaded -guilty to first-degree murder in 'the June kidnapping and slaying of Jeralee Underwood 11 of Po1catello Idaho The girl was collecting on her newspaper route when she disappeared Prosecutors plan to seek the death penal- ty at Wood's sentencing Dec 7 Authorities also say Wood has admitting the fall 1992 kidnapping of an 18-year-old St Louis County woman who was raped and then shot in the head Police said Wood was surprised to find out the teen-ager survived In his statement to police solving the Louisiana murder mystery Wood recounted how he abducted Coleman from a parking lot and drove her 1971 gold and beige Oldsmobile out to the woods He described how he raped Coleman in the back seat of the before killing her "I told her come out here in the woods and I'm gonna let ya go and you can find your way back to the road here And I uh walked her out time and shot her An the back of the head" Wood 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Shannon 37 a home maker from Grants Pass Ore said she had gone into Tiller's clinic hours before the shooting a 25-caliber semiautomatic hand: gun in her purse She asked a secretary about getting an abortion and was told she could return Aug 21 Then she used the restroom and walked around Had she seen Tiller inside Shannon said she would have shot him there "That was my original plan" she said In the interview Shannon also said her diary which police found buried in her back yard several weeks after the shooting contains enough evidence about other anti-abortion activi: ties to potentially put her and perhaps others behind bars for years But that doesn't bother Shan non "Even if I spend the whole rest of my life in prison I did the right thing" she stated "I might have did a lousy job but I tried" Tiller was shot in both arms Aug 19 as he drove away from his clinic Women's Health Care Ser: vices Shannon was arrested shortly before midnight that night as she tried to return a rental car at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City She has plead ed innocent to a charge of at: tempted first-degree murder as well as to two aggravated assault charges and is awaiting trial Shannon said her main concern is the diary that police dug up in her yard When asked whether it is incriminating she replied: 11Yeah I'm a goner" According to court documents Shannon told police that "if there ever was a justifiable murder this would have been it" She denies making that statement "I don't think there's such a thing as a justifiable murder" she said "because murder's killing the innocent person" However she said "there is killing that is riihteous or just" KNIG1 WICH 7aoctor and has I "I'll al thing" 5 view wit Durin intervie County maker said she clinic hol 25-calib gun in ho Shea: getting a she coul she used around Had Shannon shot hin original In the said her found bi several 1 cont about ot ties to perhaps years But th non "Es rest of right thb have did Tiller Aug 19 a clinic 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