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Friday AM February 16 1990 I Fort Worth Star-Telegram I Section 5 Page 3 DOCK REVIEW The trip is more fun than the destination 4 "it 44 '1z--'' v- 4' 1 --e -1- "of--: 1 414 1 4r fort Worth Star-TelegramBEATRICE TERRAZAS fort Worth Star-TelegramBEATRICE TERRAZAS Charlene Walker Continued from once arrested ll be found to be i Walker He ca said as he was "I wondered after me for Carla was ney McCoy's was abducted Day had been week Wester' Saturday the tine dance McCoy wh( with his wife dren said he a west Fort Wort fore going to tl the dance mo went for a dri After taking their car Mc Brunswick Ri( Carla could UE it was Sunday the bowling al McCoy said ti parking lot fol pies do he sal Suddenly from out of i door open an "He opene( about fell out leaning again hitting me ovi 1 thought he wai I' say TII go him' I didn't McCoy woli 1 er dazed al wounds on hi "I just start I bered "I didn I almost had One of Carl bers hearing IV "He hit the the yard" Jim of the car yell got her They' bad'" Carla's me said guests we McCoy burst husbal 1 and drove up said "It was the door anyv Charlene 1 and an ambul older sister Rodney to th 1 Walker follow "When we Continued from once arrested be found to be Walker He said as he was "I wondered after me for Carla was McCoy's was abducted Day had been week Western Saturday the dance McCoy who with his wife said he west Fort Worth going to the dance most went for a drive After taking their car Brunswick Carla could use it was Sunday the bowling McCoy said parking lot for do he said Suddenly from out of door open and "He opened about fell out" leaning against hitting me over thought he was say go hint' I didn't McCoy woke dazed wounds on his "I just started "I didn't I almost had One of Carla's hearing "He hit the the yard" Jim of the car yelling got her They're bad'" Carla's said guests were McCoy burst "My husband and drove up said "It was the door Charlene and an ambulance older sister Rodney to the Walker followed "When we I Cindy Lindley left Carla's older sister and "I talked to him about Carla how she was from a good family" Terrell said "I fed on his conscience I told him he wouldn't be able to live with himself so he might as well tell me if he killed her" The man began to sob Again Terrell suggested he clear his conscience and confess "He was crying heavily and I'll never forget it he said 'Well I guess I might as well' Terrell said Just then Terrell said someone pounded on the door of the room where they were Terrell was needed elsewhere The confession he was seconds from getting never came Police took a search warrant to the man's residence and they found a leaflet on Reugers the type of gun Car-la's assailant had carried "We found where he had pawned Reugers before" Terrell said wasn't enough 1 The suspect eventually went to prison and Terrell teamed briefly with Detective George Hudson who had been assigned to the case An employee of the Brunswick Ridglea Bowl picked the burglary suspect's photo out of a lineup indicating he had been in the bowling alley that evening She remembered him wearing a hat and a green vest In February 1976 Terrell and Hudson went to interview the man in prison Terrell adopted the same posture he had used in 1975 "I started the same routine and he just stopped me" Terrell said "He said 'You almost got me with that last time but I've learned some things since then'" I ---ive 0001' '''4' 1 414400 '6111- i ---dotp 40 slept for the next four days" Practically a member of the family Rodney McCoy moved in to the Walker house on Williams Road in Ben-brook to wait for Carla to be found As far as retired Air Force officer Leighton Walker was concerned Rodney McCoy was one of his sons Since McCoy started dating their daughter early in the school year Leighton and Charlene Walker attended his football games and set a place for him at the dinner table It was only right that the Western Hills senior should be with Carla's family to face the endless barrage of questions from police sheriff's deputies and FBI agents He should be with the Walkers when word of Carla's fate came That word came on Wednesday Feb 20 A body believed to be that of Carla Walker had been found in a culvert near Benbrook Lake The girl was partially clad and she had been raped and strangled Jim Walker remembers riding with his parents to the morgue that evening to identify the body He remembers hearing his mother scream Rodney McCoy was upstairs when the Walkers came home from the morgue "It was terrible" he said "I remember I collapsed on the floor" aria Walker's death was a jolt to Fort Worth Benbrook and surrounding communities Police were under tremendous pressure to find the killer The description issued by police was of a clean-cut slender young man about 20 with short-cropped wavy hair who talked with a Texas drawl and stood about 5 feet I I inches The man was wearing a shiny green sleeveless vest and a near-white cowboy hat While police carried on their investigation the Walkers pursued their own inquiry Their phone rang often with leads and they followed them "We would have hired someone to read tea leaves if we thought it would help" said Jim Walker who was a sixth-grader at the time During the year after Carla's death police questioned suspects One was considered a strong possibility but no charges were ever filed A year after Carla disappeared on March 8 burglary Detective JF Terrell arrested a man in a series of burglaries When Terrell and Detective Joe Britt drove up in front of the man's house he was standing in the yard "I called him over to the car and he got in" Terrell said "First thing he said was 'I wondered when you were coming after me for Carla Walker'" The detectives recovered stolen property from the man's house and took him to jail Terrell was concerned with getting his burglary case filed but still the man's words burned in his mind He decided to have a talk with the suspect house he was standing in the yard "I called him over to the car and he got in" Terrell said "First thing he said was 'I wondered when you were corn- ing after me for Carla Walker' The detectives recovered stolen property from the man's house and took him to jail Terrell was concerned with getting his burglary case filed but still the man's words burned in his mind He decided to have a talk with the suspect Terrell hasn't given up He continues to stay in touch with the Walkers and he talks with police investigators from time to time He wrote police late last year and requested that they look into the Carla Walker case again and specifically at the suspect who he says almost confessed to him in 1975 Police Sgt Paul Kratz said detectives have taken another look at the case recently He believes somebody besides the killer knows who killed Carla Walker After all this time he wishes that person would come forward "There's still a possibility it could be solved" he said "We need physical evidence or a witness who could tie some things together" He said no information should be considered trivial Maybe someone heard something Maybe they saw something Maybe they think they know something "It's hard to believe somebody would do something like that and keep it to themselves" he said Charlene Walker holds that same belief She says finding Carla's killer is all that can ever put the matter to rest Carla's father died exactly two years ago Feb 16 1988 of a massive heart attack Jim Walker worked as a rape crisis volunteer and now he teaches his daughters to be aware and "street smart" Cindy Lindley who was not only Carla's older sister but also her confidante and best friend worries that her own teen-age daughter doesn't see the danger that she knows exists Rodney McCoy who drifted away The Full Catastrophe By David Catkeet Fiction Linden PressSimon 81 Schuster $1895 Horror" of the Wilsons or any other marriage must inevitably be All's not lost though As Cook strug: gles to understand others he learns about himself An adjunct story line: finds Roy Pillow matchmaking for Cook with mixed results Cook rejects one woman because she reminds him too much of himself That A point taken he eventually opens upl enough for a mature relationship Cook's eventual discovery of "The' Horror" and how it relates to any mantic commitment is a natural progression amid Carkeet's careening but never out-of-control style of storytelling Even Carkeet's weekly grocery list probably makes good reading The Full Catastrophe is a book most readers-' would enjoy to a point Life doesn't assure happy endings1 but Carkeet is a good enough writer to have better tied up the story of Dan and Beth Wilson Instead they fly off to a European vacation and a bleak future in an unfinished manner that somehow' spoils the book's conclusion We de: serve a better ending but Carkeet dently decided 316 pages was enough-: The career 300 hitter decided he and we would have to settle for 275 this time Jeff Guinn is a Star-Tedegram columnist 5'4" and under 4 ta End of interview from the Walker family after Carla's Terrell's theory seemed to fall apart death recently visited them with his in 1977 when Jimmy Dean Sasser con- wife and children During his visit to fessed to killing Carla Walker He was Fort Worth McCoy and Terrell met charged and indicted in the crime In a with police investigators startling conclusion to that chapter of He was glad to learn that police ha-then the case Sasser was released seven ven't given up on finding Carla's killer months later after telling authorities he and that Terrell has remained interest-a was depressed over the breakup of his ed in the case marriage and made a false confession "I was really amazed that they ha There have been no charges since ven't forgotten" he said "I'm really those filed against Sasser happy that someone still cares" End of interview Terrell's theory seemed to fall apart in 1977 when Jimmy Dean Sasser confessed to killing Carla Walker He was charged and indicted in the crime In a startling conclusion to that chapter of the case Sasser was released seven months later after telling authorities he was depressed over the breakup of his marriage and made a false confession There have been no charges since those filed against Sasser from the Walker family after Carla's death recently visited them with his wife and children During his visit to Fort Worth McCoy and Terrell met with police investigators He was glad to learn that police haven't given up on finding Carla's killer and that Terrell has remained interested in the case "I was really amazed that they haven't forgotten" he said "I'm really happy that someone still cares" Carla Page 1 for burglary will someday the man who killed Carla can't forget what the man being arrested that day: when you were coming Carla Walker" wearing 18-year-old Rodney promise ring the night she Although Valentine's observed earlier in the Hills had waited until 16th to have its Valentine lives out of state now Cindy and three children and Carla went to eat at a seafood restaurant before the dance They stayed at of the evening then with another couple the other couple back to McCoy said he drove to Ridglea Bowl on US 377 so the restroom By then morning She went into alley When she returned the two of them sat in the a while As young -couples they were kissing McCoy said a man came nowhere jerked Carla's the nightmare began the door and she just McCoy said "She was the door He started the head with a gun I shooting me I heard her with you just don't shoot see them walk away" up several minutes later and bleeding from the head driving" he remembered know what I was doing a head-on" brothers Jim remembers McCoy drive into the yard curb and drove up into Walker said "He got out 'Mr Walker they've going to hurt her real mother Charlene Walker still at the house when in covered with blood just jumped in the car to the bowling alley" she closed but he pounded on anyway" Walker called the police for Rodney Carla's Cindy then 19 rode with hospital and Charlene in a car got to the hospital Rodney's mother was there so we came home" she said "I don't suppose we Wilderness! 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4 Hicks is a wonderful scene The writing i Scott Theatre 3505 Lancaster Muriel pompous 3 father His parlor is stilted and archaic but charming in a Ave Fort Worth 1 i confrontation with Bierko should be Tickets: $10 and 1 2 $4 for senior 6333 Camp Bowie 731-1002 1906 sort of way It could easily be terrifi an will II be if Swint ever citizens at Sunday matinee $7 for played as low-camp farce But director Arlington smooths out his halting delivery students at all performances Sunday Garber opts for honest emotion matinee interpreted for the hearing 3810 Cooper 47219818 I 11 Past portrayers of Nat Miller Rich- Fort Worth Theatre's in-house i impaired Hurst ard's father include George Cohan awards include a category for excel- Information: 738-6509 117 West Harwood 282-2068 4 and Walter Pidgeon Fort Worth The- lence in minor roles Jim Conlee as the 4 9 Watch The Disney Channel OUT Craft Show is 7 Days a week or-go "1777) 71 11U 11:77) 1717 1 A II 7 i 1 rd Our Selection is the largest in the Southwest a I 1 '1 4 -4 1 -4 1 i Our Prices are the lowest anywhere i 1 Al I' 1 1 i' 1 4 Our Crafters are the greatest L-A i A ii ilk-a id crn 0 WHY WAIT FOR WEEKEND SHOWS i "0 Ah 4'A UP i a a Tum on a full weekend doe0'111111111111 of the magical family RAFTERS gsgo'- ---) tr 14366keetti television only 1 I)t A tt- ALL A Wonderland of Handcrafted I Disney can deliver OPEN 7 DAYS 10 am to 6 Pm February 16-18 AZLE BURLESON RICHLAND HILLS (817) 677-4402 (817) 295-6666 284-4433 04 r401 1 At 1 4t CI Al i i tP 40 'IA ti 14- i gi 1 1 1 r''''' I 4 i ck Y' 1' lh 1 comers and one of them is a major find Arlington actor Drew Orton who coincidentally is about the same age as Richard plays the fiery youth with a mix of bewilderment and I'll-show-'em truculence His tryst at the beach with Muriel played affectingly by Christina Hicks is a wonderful scene The writing is stilted and archaic but charming in a 1906 sort of way It could easily be played as low-camp farce But director Garber opts for honest emotion Past portrayers of Nat Miller Richard's father include George Cohan and Walter Pidgeon Fort Worth The CRAFT comers and one of them is a major find atre's Rex Bierko is far from intimidat- straw-hatted Yalie with a fondness foi Our Craft Show is 7 Days a week Our Selection is the largest in the Southwest Our Prices are the lowest anywhere Our Crafters are the greatest WHY WAIT FOR WEEKEND SHOWS A Wonderland of Handcrafted Items OPEN 7 DAYS 10 am to 6 pm AZLE BURLESON RICHLAND HILLS (817) 677-4402 (817) 295-6666 284-4433 (-f-- t0t 3 tek 60 atre's Rex Bierko is far from intimidated The undisputed highlight of Bierko's warm and wise portrayal is the scene in which he tries to explain the facts of life to Orton Perennial Fort Worth Theatre favorite Erwin Swint is perfect for the role of Muriel's pompous father His parlor confrontation with Bierko should be terrific and will be if Swint ever smooths out his halting delivery Fort Worth Theatre's in-house awards include a category for excellence in minor roles Jim Conlee as the SHOW straw-hatted Yalie with a fondness for "swift babes" is a cinch nominee Ah Wilderness! 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