Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 39

I Wednesday AM December 6 1989 AMINGION Fort Worth Star-Telegram I Section 1 Page 27 Wednesday AM IlerPmhor 1 9R1 AMNON Fort Worth Stor-Tploorarn Section 1 Pace 27 Teens sought refuge before their deaths Court denies Texas killer's plea for life 4' 1 I's "From what we have been able to determine from people who are familiar with the mother her apartment was used as a safehouse" Webber said "They (drug users) could come there and use the place to use their drugs" Edwards who was unemployed reportedly supported her family with Social Security checks police said She apparently did not use drugs Webber added The information led investigators to narrow the field of possible suspects to people who associated with Edwards Webber said The bodies were found after a man Edwards dated urged an apartment maintenance man to unlock her door He said he became worried when he couldn't reach her after several days of telephoning An autopsy revealed Monday that Edwards had been stabbed seven times in various parts of her body Annette was stabbed in the neck chest and abdomen Bemette who was found gagged was stabbed eight times in the neck chest and abdomen No weapons were found It has not been determined whether any of the three was sexually assaulted police said Asonsed Pres HOUSTON The grandmother of twin teen-age girls who were stabbed to death with their mother says the girls had asked the day before they died if they could move in with her The grandmother Creole Thomas told police the girls called frightened on their 16th birthdays complaining about the stream of people their mother allowed into the northeast Houston apartment to use drugs Autopsies show Annette and Bernette Edwards and their mother 38- year-old Bonita Edwards were stabbed to death the evening of Nov 30 Their bodies were not discovered in their blood-spattered locked apartment until Saturday Police said the girls freshmen at Kashmere High School had telephoned their grandmother the day before their deaths to ask if they cotild live with her Thomas said they could "I'm just too upset to talk about it" she said "Maybe in a couple of days when they are in their little caskets be able to talk" Homicide Sgt Larry Webber said detectives have been able to rule out random killings Carlos De Ulna: Scheduled to die before dawn tomorrow Students struggle to understand girl's slaying Associated Pres HUNTSVILLE The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday refused to halt the execution later this week of a Texas prison inmate sentenced to die for a 1983 killing in Corpus Christi Carlos DeLuna 27 faces lethal injection before dawn tomorrow for the robbery-slaying of Wanda Jean Lopez 24 a service station clerk State attorneys had asked the appeals court to review the case without issuing an immediate stay "We're arguing they can decide the issues without having to stay the execution" Bill Zapalac an assistant attorney general said yesterday "They have plenty of time to read issues and make a decision" The rejection by the New Orleans court sent the case to the US Supreme Court Attorneys for DeLuna are arguing that their client had a history of alcohol and drug abuse and that the jury at his trial was not allowed to consider that before sentencing him to death Zapalac however said a defense motion objecting to the jury's failure to consider the mitigating circumstances was withdrawn at the trial stand We've got a full house in with the counselors" More than a dozen counselors from the Round Rock school district Community Psychiatrics Center Hospital and a local psychologist's office along' with several local ministers consoled students in the school library "Our position on all of this is he can't really challenge the application of the statute if he didn't present mitigating evidence" he said "They withdrew the motion I assume that's because there was no mitigating evidence" Lopez was stabbed to death minutes after she phoned police and attempted to describe her assailant to an emergency dispatcher De Luna on parole for about six weeks after serving part of a three-year sentence for attempted rape and car theft was arrested while hiding under a nearby truck Two eyewitnesses identified him at the trial He has insisted another person committed the crime Associated Press ROUND A small group of students at CD Nikes Middle School gathered under the maroon and white banner that proclaimed "Just Can't Hide CD Pride" and cried Their tears were for a 13-year-old cheerleader whose body was found beneath some firewood in a neighbor's back yard An autopsy showed Kelly Brumbelow had been stabbed 97 times before her body was discovered early Sunday A 12-year-old boy is in "I've taught for 28 years and never seen anything like this" said eighth-grade teacher Eloise Jackson a I 4-year veteran at Nikes "I remember losing students before but not like this" Principal Gene Stokes said "It's still a complete shock" Round Rock police Sgt Dan Le May said the boy has told police 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