The Olympian from Olympia, Washington • 14

14A Weather The Olympian Sunday March 27 1988 Southern Pugel and Sunday night decreasing chance of ahowers with partial clearing higha near 50 lows 25 to 30 winds southwest at 10 to 20 mph Monday Increasing clouds with a chance of afternoon rain highs 50 to 55 Chance of rain 50 percent Sunday 20 percent Sunday night 30 percent Sunday Shwton i Locally 4S 36 PCldy 48 43 Extended outlook Western Washington Chance of showers Tuesday Partly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday with a few showers or sprinkles along the coast A little warmer by Thursday Eaatern Waahington Partly cloudy Tuesday with chance of showers mainly In the east A few showers in the northeast mountains Wednesday Olympia' "Tumwater 9 Lacey' almanac: All observations below are for the 24-hour period ending at midnight last night Temperature Highlow yesterday 4836 Highlow same date last year 5434 Record highyear same date 761969 Record lowyear same date 241975 Precipitation total 101 inches Total same date last year trace Total this month to date 523 inches Normal this month to date 417 inches Total this year to date 1276 inches Normal year to date 1844 Inches Wind velocity Highest recorded 20 mphgusts to 37 mph Tides Northwest forecasts Passes: Snoqualmie slush in places Stevens snow tires required Swauk-Blewett road bare and wet Satus No information available White bare and wet Sherman snow tires advised Mount Bsker snow tires required Chinook Cayuso and North Cascades Closed for season Skiing: Crystal Mountain 0 new snow 74-Inch base Mission Ridge 0 65 Mount Baker 8 188 Pacific West 0 65 Ski Acres Snoqualmlo Summit Alpontal 0 76 Stevons Pass 0 113 White Pass 0 74 Northwest forecasts Seattle Tacoma Everett Scattered showers decreasing Sunday night with periods of partial clearing Highs In the mid to upper 40s Lows in the lower to mid 30s Increasing clouds Monday Washington coast Scattered showera decreasing by Sunday night Periods of partial clearing Highs mid and upper 40s Washington Cascades and Olympics Snow advisory Sunday morning Snow showers possibly heavy at times Sunday decreasing late afternoon Snow level 1000 feet Afternoon pass temperatures mid 20s to lower 30s Eastern Washington Windy at times Sunday Partly cloudy and cooler Sunday with scattered showers Weather map legend Data in boxes: Top Hne: City with yesterday's highlow temp Bottom Hno: Forecast tomorrow's highlow temp OlympiaSunday March 27 High 2:40 am 137 ft Low 8:49 am 72 ft High 12:29 pm 112 ft Low 7:59 pm 15 ft OlympfaMonday March 28 High 3:23 am 139 ft Low 9:34 am 64 ft High 1:52 pm 113 ft Low 8:52 pm 16 ft SheltonSunday March 27 High 3:21 am 134 ft Low 9:57 am 68 ft High 1:10 pm 109 ft Low 9:07 pm 11 ft SheltonMonday March 26 High 4:04 am 136 ft Low 10:42 am 60 ft High 2:33 pm 110 ft Low 10:00 pm 12 ft tC' Cities elsewhere International Cities National weather La a 04 a a a 77 a a 73 67 dr 63 6 1 woma a a otr 6ydnay a -a ody Tokyo V-11 ody dr dr 7i a 77 72 43 a a a si a NawYortCtty a 81 OMahowCHy a 46 7 a -1 forecast By The Associated Press Rain and scattered thunderstorms drenched parts of the South and East from Texas to New England on Saturday while snow and strong winds chilled the mountains in the Northwest and some Southwest cities basked in record high temperatures Morning and early afternoon rain showers and thunderstorms were scattered from south central Texas across the central Gulf Coast northwest Florida and southwest Georgia Thunderstorms produced three-quarter-inch hail at Gulf Shores La and marble-size hail at Mexia Texas Lightning and heavy rain caused power outages at Elba Ala Showers and thunderstorms also extended from Tennessee across the Ohio Valley and from eastern North Carolina across eastern New York state and New England Pm OK AKwqmmu 71 38 ody Auctioned 31 II an NM 76 dr AKndoCKy S3 47 J7 dr 1J4 dr 11 41 an 77 41 dr 4 J4 otiy 46 J2 64 31 an 46 36 Ody 67 46 ody 60 44 JS ody CdunWuaOMo 66 41 ody banal rtWorth 76 63 ody 71 33 an 81 32 DatraN 56 40 01 ody 23 06 ody 36 18 Olv an QraanaboroNC 71 64 J7 elr 67 61 JS ody '66 66 ody 64 87 ody 64 a J4 ody" i 44 61 KanaaaCMy a 64 LaaVagaa 86 52 dr LflaAnoataa 86 67 tfr LouMHt 61 dr wo a a 47 a a 83 46 77 a a 47 ka a SdlLafcaCtty 76 87 OanAntonto 78 67 a a 71 Tampa OlWrabg S3 67 Tueaon a a WaaWndanJC a 61 HiUmil TMtralw Ixti S'd f- Vf i 4" Low 19 DawiM Mmi onrw va diuu mo aanMH umuir Hlgn ia Dagraaa at Tbarmal Cad and Miramar -Jm Nmd Air OdOonri San Otago CdV Fronts: Warm Stationary Showoro Rain Flurries Snow Here is how the presidential candidates stand in the wake of the Michigan primary The delegate totals at right include all committed delegates based on own statements or binding party rules Realistically I could keep three or four more people busy here It's created a lot of pressure a lot of frustration Glad Austin Lewis County chief of detectives Source Olympian nows asnrtcos 1713 and uncommitted 3716 we can talk about twin bills double headers and that sort of said Joel Ferguson state coordinator think going to take the majority of congressional districts which we consider a major got lots and lots of contests up Dukakis said is a marathon and going to continue to be a marathon much to do and there are many miles to In North Dakota the precinct caucus results made this the preliminary split for national ednvention delegates: Dukakis Jackson 3 and Gephardt 2 Five would go as uncommitted delegates These results tightened the delegate race a bit In the AP delegate count Dukakis has 39633 to 38433 Gore had 3628 delegates Gephardt 178 Simon house to go trapping Riemer who had a no-contact order against him for assaulting Robertson had spent at least the last few days with her deputies said Later that day Crystal was found alone at a Spanaway mart store Her parents were nowhere to be found she said was in the Neiser said On Feb 18 1986 a man driving on Highway 7 between Morton and Elbe pulled off onto a dead-end logging road to run his dog and came across a red pick-up truck At first he thought he saw a deer carcass lying in the snow behind the truck it dawned on him this is a ''person this is a Neiser said He memorized the license plate and reported it to Pierce County Sheriffs Office and detectives determined the case was in Lewis County jurisdiction Detectives went to the snow-covered road and found the nude body of Diana Robertson She had been stabbed several times are also indications she might have been Neiser said Riemer however was never found He never returned to his job to pick up a pay-check and nothing was taken from his bank account He simply vanished no Neiser said evidence dead other than not Detectives want to talk to the 39-year-old Riemer about his death we find him alive we can get a warrant on him for Neiser said The Robertson murder had striking sim- ilarities to a Pierce County case in Tule Lake near Roy In that murder a camper and his girlfriend were slain Similarities that Neiser would discuss were that both killings were in forests both involved women both women were found partially nude There were other similarities but those similarities must remain undisclosed at this point of the Neiser said Four months later retired minister Ernest Smith 69 of Mineral was killed His body was discovered 11 days later in the front room of His home His Jeep had been stolen and was found abandoned after an accident in Puyallup Detectives are not releasing the manner in which Smith died was some monetary Austin said of the killing motive During the seven murder investigations county detectives successfully investigated three homicide cases and helped Centralia police with a fourth case The most complicated case involved the murder of Joanne Jirovec It took' a long time because so many people were involved detectives had to crack a theft ring travel hundreds of miles several times and work with several law enforcement departments before they could ask for three murder indictments The case took 20 months to bring to trial in Thurston County Superior Court The husband David was found guilty in Thurston County Superior Court of first-degree aggravated murder A jury determined he contracted for the killing He was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole Jirovec maintains his innocence and a hearing is pending on his request for a new trial Daryl Bums of Lewis County pleaded guilty to killing the woman and was sen- Bodies From Page One Investigators say they believp her killer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on a different murder But police still have not made the Wilcox case against him The body of a was discovered May 3 1983 by mushroom pickers in a brushy area near a creek between Toledo and Winlock less than 100 yards off Interstate 3 Investigators later identified her as Susan Krueger a 42-year-old transient with a history of mental disorders She was last seen in Pierce County Jail in the spring of 1983 investigators said Krueger considered a street person could have been mistaken by her killer as a prostitute investigators say She died by trauma to the body" Austin said On Oct 19 1983 the body of Roberta Strasbaugh was discovered near the intersection of Manners Road and Lincoln Creek Road about 10 miles west of Centralia The 19-year-old Grand Mound mother was last seen Sept 29 1983 while catching a ride on Old Highway 99 between Centralia and Grand Mound Thurston County detectives also are working on the case although it is a Lewis County case according to Detective Sgt Tom Lynch new significant developments have occurred" Lynch said The case is not at a dead end but it is not progressing either he said still get tips but they still panned out still an open Three months later the Maurin murder mystery unfolded Since then three detectives have worked the case Nine three-ring looseleaf binders have been filled with reports interview transcripts and other investigation documents Still deputies are in the dark about who killed the couple Lewis County Sheriff detective Dave Neiser said He is now in charge of the investigation Ed Maurin 80 and his wife Minnie 82 were abducted from their home in Ethel about 20 miles south of Centralia on Highway 12 and forced to drive to Chehaiis Neiser said Deputies believe a young man sat behind Ed in his 1969 Chrysler and forced him to drive to a Chehaiis bank With the' man holding Mrs Maurin at gunpoint Ed was ordered to go into the bank and withdraw money from his account The bank had just opened when Maurin drew out $8000 was no indication of trouble at the Neiser said seemed so normal" That afternoon after children reported the elderly couple had missed attending a party deputies discovered their bodies on Steams Hill Road about seven miles west of Chehaiis Both had been shot Their car later was found abandoned in the Yard shopping center parking lot in Centralia The best description Neiser has of the suspected killer is that he was white in his 20s or 30s had dark hair wore a stocking cap and had a three-day growth of beard Although Lewis County deputies know it at the time another murder case had been dropped in their laps a week before the Maurin bodies were found On Dec 12 1983 Diana Robertson her boyfriend Mike Riemer and their 2-year-old daughter Crystal left their Puyallup tenced to 33 years in prison Douglas Tobin pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison Lewis County detectives also spent two years off and on working on the Nov 13 1984 murder of 73-year-old Oda Couch of Randle At first the Lewis County Fire Office determined the fire in which Couch died was accidental But son Jimmy believe his father would smoke in bed as the fire marshal had claimed Jimmy Couch cut out a chunk of the mattress where his father perished and had it tested for chemicals The Washington State Patrol Crime Lab determined the fire had been set possibly with gasoline It took two years before three men Robin Combs and brothers David and Charles Hawkins of Lewis County were arrested by Lewis County Detective Milo Simmons They were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to SO years in prison The detectives also investigated the shooting of Melvin Kaiser in Toledo A Lewis County jury acquitted Jimmy Jacobsen by reason of self-defense Lewis County detectives also helped Centralia police solve the July 4 1986 murder of a police informant Anthony Otoszco of Lewis County pleaded guilty earlier this month to a charge of second-degree murder Almost two years have passed since a body has been discovered in Lewis Cdun-ty But the seven murder cases and eight murder victims are not far from the minds Most of the cases have been reviewed by three or four of the detectives in the division and police have consulted as many sources of information as they can think of including hypnotists psychologists entomologists and the Green River Task Force created a lot of Austin said lot of frustration" "I feel like been doing everything we can in our means" Simmons said The detectives are optimistic especially since new forensic technology is becoming available One new technological breakthrough is the Washington State Automated Fingerprint Identification System which Neiser says might be instrumental in breaking two or three of the murder cases a couple of months we hope to have some Neiser said answer will either be we help jpu or say your Regardless the detectives keep looking for answers think we can handle anything there" Austin said we need a break in the case a witness given Neiser said polls clear the public will require that in any new As for an income tax Wilkerson insists that while Gardner favors one neither he nor the governor is going to push it if the people say they want it is not a dialogue about an income tax but about a variety of he insisted is not an income tax Republicans however urged voters in a state Senate race in 1987 to Booth Gardner's Income And Republicans at their precinct caucuses March 8 were asked whether they favored Income Wilkerson says he worry about the possibility Republicans will use that same rhetoric during the 1988 election year when Gardner and most of the legislators are on the ballot possibly dooming his process control the political side of the he said A new part of the effort will be greater information about how different plans will affect different people For example if workers in the apple industry in Wenatchee or the logging industry in Grays Harbor want to know how a 1 percent flat-rate income tax with a 3 percent reduction in 'sales tax will affect them state officials have the specific data to show them improves the quality of the dialogue and is something we have said Wilkerson Although Wilkerson said he hopes the process can produce agreement on one plan he said it may be necessary to present two or three options to the Legislature with the pros and cons of each clearly outlined Batter up From Page One final plan might take know how this is going to turn out and thank God I he said What he said he hopes for is a plan that provides a more balanced productive tax system with enough spending controls and government streamlining to satisfy as many people as possible He knows it be easy skeptical skeptical" he said important that we try The overwhelming majority of state officials including all but eight of the 147 state legislators polled recently believe the present tax system is inadequate It relies heavily on the sales tax to support the S10 billion two-year state budget with other healthy chunks comiqg from the business and occupation tax and property taxes Wilkerson said the system is unfair placing a greater burden on those less able to pay and is not a stable source of income for the state to sit around here during Christmas waiting to find out if consumers were spending money so we could fund education was the experience of a lifetime for he said A key to success he said will be building a broad base of support That may be difficult when many state residents usually think of two things when they hear the words tax reform: want more and going to foist an income tax on To the first fear Wilkerson said I think (a no-tax-increase plan) will be a requirement read the i.