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February 2008
The Husband Got Murdered A Confession to Murder
The Boyfriend Got 55-Years Was It Fact, Or Fiction?
By Marie Beth Jones
T
he caller reported a suspicious vehicle – a Chevrolet
Suburban with the engine running, next to the Taco Shack at County
Road 143 and County Road 50 in
Pearland.
The man inside was not moving, the
caller said, and blood dripping from the
vehicle’s passenger-side front door.
Patrol deputies dispatched to the
scene asked for a check of the vehicle registration, which came back as
being owned by a Houston man. It had
not been reported stolen.
The date was Feb. 5, 2002, a day
Brazoria County Sheriff’s Investigator
Eddie Rogers recalls as a cold, wet day.
“I was on call,” Rogers said, “when
I heard the radio traffic, I headed to
the scene.”
Once he arrived it took only a glance
for Rogers to realize that the information he had heard – including the blood
at the scene – was no exaggeration.
He saw a man seated in the front passenger seat of the Suburban, facing
the vehicle’s driver’s side. Blood had
pooled on the floorboard beneath the
dead man, and was dripping out the
door. Rogers could see more blood on
the man’s hands, legs, and pants.
Convinced the man inside was dead
the officers removed his wallet from his
pocket which contained a driver’s license
issued to Arturo Zamarripa Macias, a
44-year-old Pearland resident.
“When we checked the body we
found defensive wounds on his hands,
including one that had almost severed
his thumb,” Rogers said.
These were only the beginning of
the man’s injuries, however. He also
had wounds on the top of his head
that had bled profusely. He had also
suffered severe
chest injuries.
Other investigators, called to
assist in locating witnesses,
began interviewing people living
along CR 50,
Fidel Troncoso, killed hoping to find
for another man's wife someone who
had seen what happened.
Their search was partially successful,
turning up witnesses who noticed a
couple of vehicles in the area at 10:30
or 10:45 p.m. on Feb. 4, about the
time other individuals had spotted cars
of the same description in that area.
Just as then Investigator (now
Captain) Chris Kincheloe and Rogers
were wrapping up everything at the
scene, a man named Victor Loya
drove up and told them he was looking
for Macias, who lived with Loya and
his ex-wife Belia.
Loya said he and Belia had tried all
night to get Macias on his cell phone,
but had been unable to contact him.
The officers informed Loya that the
man they had found dead at the
scene had been tentatively identified
as Macias, and asked for information about Macias’s relatives. They
obtained the name and telephone
number of Macias’s brother, and notified him of their suspicion that Macias
had been murdered.
Loya then led the investigators to
an Alvin-area trucking company where
Macias had worked, and the investigators talked with other employees of
the company in an effort to find out
more about the victim.
Because most of the trucking company’s employees spoke little English,
continued on pg. 8 (Husband/Boyfriend)
By: Breck Porter
Galveston, Texas
Christmas Eve 1976
inston Martin, MD, was a
psychiatrist in Galveston
who practiced with the
rather prestigious and powerful group
called the Titus Harris Clinic. Winston
was known by many close to him to
have an alcohol problem. Prior to his
disappearance, he was a frequenter
of several Galveston bars, and there
were those who admonished him that
his bar hopping was not a safe practice.
Apparently they were right, for on
Christmas morning, 1977, Winston
Martin drove away from the L’Oasis
Club on Ferry Road in Galveston,
never to be seen or heard from again.
Martin went to the L’Oasis near midnight
on Christmas Eve after he and wife Nancy
had entertained friends at their home on
Avenue O earlier in the evening. Bartender,
Leola Rawlins, said she could tell Martin
had been drinking before he arrived at
the bar. He stayed until she closed a little
before two o’clock on Christmas morning.
He was the last customer to leave when
Rawlins closed. She watched as he drove
away believing he was on his way home.
Dr. Martin was also known for his rather aggressive use of electroconvulsive
treatment on his patients. Nevertheless,
patients were frequently referred to him
by other doctors, especially difficult cases
and VIP’s, which is why he may have been
given the case of a well-liked medical
school student.
During the late 1960’s and early 1970’s,
John D. Son was attending the medical
school at the University of Texas Medical
Branch in Galveston, having gone there
from a Fort Worth hospital where he was a
pre-med student.
W
John was very
well liked in
medical school
and was elected
president of his
class. However,
he
became
intrigued with
psychedelic
Dr. Winston Martin
drugs during this
time. Far more intrigued than the social
pot-smoking most of the class did. Rather,
he was intent on exploring the psychedelic
experience, similar to Timothy Leary.
During his third year, Son became delusional, believing he was some religious
messenger. He tied his name, Jon Son,
with his mother’s who ironically was named
Mary. Before long the Son of Mary thing
got totally out of hand and he was proselytizing to patients and worrying everyone.
He was hospitalized on one of the psychiatric units at UTMB, and Winston Martin
was his psychiatrist.
Son was re-hospitalized several times.
On one occasion, he began to believe
another doctor who was newly married,
was having an affair with his wife. The
doctor’s new wife had actually gone to high
school with Son. She knew him and she
knew his brother who had committed suicide while in high school. She was fearful
of John Son. Son ended up in jail at least
once, and his hospitalizations had become
involuntary.
Ultimately, after several attempts to reintegrate back into medical school, he was
dropped from the rolls. He was incredibly
bitter about this, forever blaming Winston
Martin and other doctors for misunderstanding and mistreating him. He never
admitted he had any psychiatric disorder.
His wife divorced him and he drifted away
from Galveston.
contunued on page 5 (Confession)
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In the ensuing years, he wandered around
the country working odd jobs. There are
many web postings by Son where he talks
of living in the Vancouver area, the Pacific
Northwest and in Mexico.
During the investigation of the strange
disappearance of Dr. Martin, a man’s
leg with foot and shoe attached was
discovered in a lake and taken to the
Galveston County Morgue. Although the
leg was never positively identified as being
Martin’s, there was a general consensus
around UTMB that it was his. There was
also a consensus among the students that
John Son had murdered Dr. Martin.
In the 1980’s, Son’s claim that Martin,
UTMB and Titus Harris Clinic had so seriously injured him with electroconvulsive
treatment (ECT) that he was left injured
and disabled, won him a $100,000 negotiated settlement. The Church of Scientology
reportedly assisted Son in the lawsuit.
Over the next twenty years some of John
Son’s former classmates and associates
had occasional unsolicited contacts from
him. One said he would just show up at
his office dirty and disheveled, asking for
money. On one occasion he appeared at
the office of a psychiatrist he knew from
back in the old days at UTMB just wanting
to talk. They went to a local coffee shop
and with a sly smile on his face Son asked
the former classmate if he thought that he,
Son, had murdered Winston Martin.
On another occasion he called a former
UTMB classmate from a jail in Oklahoma
where he had been arrested for threatening
his neighbor with a gun. The classmate’s
brother was a lawyer and Son was seeking
to get legal help from him.
About six years ago Son telephoned some
of his friends and told them he had written
a book that should be read by every medical student who attended UTMB with him.
As usual he hit them up for money and
he was trying to get a copy of the UTMB
Alumni Association mailing list.
A few weeks later, one of his old classmates received a copy of his book manuscript in the mail. It was a rambling document, about 100 pages long, accounting
various escapades of his life. The last
chapter was essentially what he had subsequently posted on the internet, describing his murder of Dr. Winston Martin. This
shocking chapter of the ‘book’ took readers by surprise. They could not believe Son
would actually document the crime. About
a week later, a friend got a letter from Son.
It underscored his second thoughts about
what he had written. In it he qualified what
he had written, saying he hoped the reader
understood that although every other part
of his autobiographical book was true, the
part about the death of Dr. Winston Martin
was fiction. Here is the excerpt from the
manuscript written by John D. Son which
he reportedly sold to a publisher and in
which he describes how he and two others
murder Dr. Winston Martin and disposed
of his body over thirty years ago.
“At least once a day, Bone and Salman
would show up, Bone with his beer, pot
and whiskey, Salman with his bottle of
Port wine. We would sit around the
fireplace telling the same old stories
that had been told all summer long.
“I was working real hard to get my medical
and court records from Galveston. The
authorities there knew there was nothing I
could do short of going down there and the
Galveston cops had already told me, if they
caught me there again they would kill me.
“It was about that time I got a crazy letter from Winston Martin (probably from
him being pressured by my father) telling
me I had obviously slipped back into the
world of Schizophrenia and that my only
hope was to let him teat me again.
“By that time the Statute of Limitations
had passed and there wasn’t much chance
of me finding a lawyer to help me. I told
Bone about what Winston was doing and
what he had done to me and Bone said,
“Let’s go kill the son of a bitch! You’ll get
away with it.” And just like that (after
being drunk and stoned of course) we
threw some blankets in the back of his
Chevrolet pickup and headed out I-40
toward Oklahoma where my grandfather
lived. I knew I could borrow some money
from him. When we got to Checotah, I
told him I was going to Galveston to get
my medical records so I could write a book
about what happened to me in Galveston.
He reached into his billfold, handed me
seven one hundred dollar bills and said, ‘If
I was forty years younger, ol hoss, I’d go
with you.’ He also gave me an old picket
knife and said, ‘Here, this belonged to my
dad, you’ll need it.’
“I called Winston and told him he was
right, that I was in need of some more
shock treatments and was heading that
way. ‘I want it to remain a secret though,
so don’t tell anybody I’m coming.’
“Winston agreed and told me he’d check
me into St. Mary’s Hospital under a fictitious name so as to keep it all a secret
except from my dad, that he wouldn’t tell
anyone that I was coming.
“The trip from Checotah to Galveston
was about ten hours. I called Winston
from Huntsville about six o’clock in the
evening and told him I was on my way. I
told him I would be in Galveston between
six and seven and told him I wanted to
meet him somewhere outside the hospital
and then would let him drive me to St.
Mary’s.
“It wasn’t’ really a surprise when he suggested that we meet at the Oasis, which
was a bar on Ferry Road, not far from the
medical school. I called Winston again
from Houston. I could tell at that point
he was drinking and I knew if I stood him
up he would get drunk and I would catch
him in a situation that was more favorable
to me.
“We got to Galveston about nine o’clock
and went to the Oasis (correct name
L’Oasis). Sure enough Winston’s car was
in the parking lot. We parked across the
street by an apartment complex in the
development known as fish village beause
all the streets are named after species of
fish.
“It was Christmas Eve and by 11:30
there wasn’t much traffic on the streets in
Galveston. The temperature was about 40
degrees or so and there was a slight mist
or fog in the air.
“At 1:30 a woman came out the front
door of the bar with Winston. When she
paused to lock the door of the bar I knew
she was closing up. Winston stumbled
over to his car and got inside. The woman,
probably the bartender, got into her car
and drove away.
“After a few minutes Winston started
up his car, pulled across Ferry Road and
headed back south, making a U-turn right
in front of us. I immediately made a right
hand turn behind him. There was a red
light one block down. The light was red.
Winston stopped.
“I rammed his car from behind. Winston
paid no attention and when the light turned
green he started out again. I rammed him
again. I guess that got his attention and
he stopped. He got out of his car and as
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he had done the first time I met him in
1969, seven years earlier said, ‘Don’t you
know who I am.’
I had my great grandfather’s pocket
knife in my right hand and swung at him.
It felt like it feels to hit a home run, like a
baseball hitting the fat part of the bat. The
broken off blade went into his neck and hit
his spinal cord with a solid thud. The force
of it lifted his feet off the ground, and he
landed on the pavement and immediately
went into a fetal position. I kicked him in
the face just for the battle feel of it. He
didn’t move, he didn’t struggle or make
any attempt to get up. He just laid there.
“By that time Bone was out of the truck.
He got some fence wire out of the back
and we hog-tied Winston’s arms and feet
behind him and threw him into the back of
Bone’s truck.
“I jumped into Winston’s car, which was
still running, and told Bone to follow me.
I went down to the Strand, made a right
hand turn, went down to the Holiday Inn
parking lot. It was actually the road that
runs next to the Holiday Inn down to the
yacht basin. There was a metal building
at the end of the road and several docks
with boats moored at them. There were
some large boulders there to keep people
from running to the bay and for decorative
pieces.
“I parked Winston’s car and Bone parked
behind me with Salman passed out inside.
There were several cement blocks in the
back of Bone’s car with Winston. We tied
one in the middle of his back and another
to his arms and legs and then carried him
out on one of the docks and threw him in.
He sunk immediately.
“As we were walking back to the vehicles
we saw car lights coming toward us. It
was a police car. As he got beside us, the
officer inside rolled down his window and
asked, ‘Going to do some Christmas fishing, are you?’
‘Yes,’ I said, ‘do you think they’ll be biting?’
‘Oh yeah,’ he responded and drove off.
I imagine he thought we were loading up
our boat there at the yacht basin.
“On our way from Oklahoma I had
coached Bone several times how to get
back to New Mexico. I had told him to stay
on the road from Galveston to Dallas until
he hit I-40, turn west until he got to Clines
Corners, New Mexico, turn north toward
Santa Fe and then home. I gave him three
hundred dollars and told him under no
circumstances was he to buy any alcohol
until he got back to Espanola.
“I got into Winston’s car which reeked
of vomit and Bone followed me north to
Houston. When we got to Houston, about
four a.m., I got Bone on the road to Dallas
and then I went southwest toward Corpus
Christi. From Corpus I went to Laredo
where I rented a motel room and tried to
sleep some.
“That evening I drove Winston’s car into
Old Mexico. When I got across the border
I asked some fellow there where the Boy’s
Town was. Boy’s Town is the slang term for
the whore houses there. He directed me
out west of town where there was a group
of 15-20 neon lit bars, all surrounded by a
chain link fence.
“There was several taxi cabs parked outside near the entrance to the compound. I
parked Winton’s car in the dirt parking lot,
walked over to the nearest cab and told
the driver that I would trade the car for a
ride back to Laredo and the bus station.
He agreed.
“When I got to the bus station I handed
him the keys to Winston’s car. I caught a
bus from Laredo to El Paso and then on to
Albuquerque and then Espanola and the
cabin I had rented there.
“I didn’t get back to Espanola until the
morning of the 27th. I didn’t see Bone and
Salman until three days later when I went
back out to the reservation.
“1977 saw the inauguration of Jimmy
Carter as President. I stayed in Espanola
until March when I moved back out to San
Juan. I made no effort to contact anyone
in Galveston.” End of story.
Then he adds this disclaimer later, after
the story had been posted on the internet
and some printed copies sent to friends,
almost as an afterthought.
“The previous is a fictional account of
the disappearance and murder of Winston
Martin MD from Galveston, Texas, 1976.
Copyright Dr John D. Don, MD, ND,
NMD”
In researching John Son we discovered
endless writings and postings on the internet, some under his real name others
under fictitious names.
In 2001 he wrote under his own name:
“I spent most of my time there (San Juan
Indian Reservation near Santa Fe, NM)
almost a full year, next door at the home
place of Soloman O’Guin (Salman) and his
partner, a Brujho or medicine man named
Bonifacio Viaponda. Everyone called him
“Bone”.
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names, he wrote:
“Real heavy duty thing about this story
is that I told Winston Martin (and a friend)
that at some point in the future were going
to come back and murder him. He stayed
up all night that time and shocked me 13
times. It’s all in the hospital records. By
this time, 20 years ago, I was getting my
30th ECT, just had 170 more ECT’s and
200 hours of insulin coma to go. And
people say Christ suffered.”
Another posting in 2005, he writes
under a fictitious name: “I have to admit
something children. I have to admit. I
carry many burdens and sins with me
but they were committed in innocence.
“I AM A MURDERER my friends, I am a
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Pete Gamboa of the Brazoria County
District Attorney’s office conducted
most of those interviews, Rogers said.
“One of the workers told us that he
had spoken with Macias’s sometimegirlfriend, who told him that Macias had
called her the night before. She said
that during that call Macias told her a
man named Fidel Barroso Troncoso,
59, was following him,” Rogers said.
This woman and Troncoso had previously lived together, Rogers said, but
were not living together at the time of
Macias’s death.
“We got the woman’s name and
address, and she confirmed that
Macias had called her the night before,
when he was parked outside her residence,” Rogers said.
“She told us she looked out the window and saw a truck driving by that she
knew belonged to Fidel Troncoso.”
At this point in the investigation, the
officers went to Troncoso’s nearby
residence.
Seeing the truck the woman had
described parked in front of Troncoso’s
home, the officers went to the front
door. They were met at the front door
by Troncosco.
“We told him what we were doing,
and he agreed to let us inside and
to talk with us,” Rogers said. “Other
people also lived in the house, and
Kincheloe and Gamboa checked to
make certain no one else was inside.
When they looked in Troncoso’s bedroom, they noticed clothes that had
red stains on them.”
The investigators located two relatives who lived with Troncoso and
brought them to the sheriff’s office for
formal interviews and statements.
Rogers and Investigator Russ Baker
secured Troncoso’s residence while a
search warrant was being obtained.
When Kincheloe returned to the house
with the warrant, the officers searched
the house, locating several knives and
a machete that had red stains.
During a search of the home the
officers found a set of brass knuckles
which are prohibited by law. Troncoso
was arrested for possession of a
prohibited weapon and taken to the
sheriff’s office.
Clerks at Gene’s Country Store told
officers they remembered seeing
the vehicles driven by Macias and
Troncoso pulling through the parking
lot the night before, in a manner that
indicated one of them was following
the other.
The next day, Feb. 6, Gamboa interviewed Troncoso, who confessed that
he had hit Macias in the head with a
machete and stabbed him with a boning
knife – one having a long, thin blade.
In this statement Troncoso claimed
that Macias had threatened him, but
during a second interview, in which
Troncoso gave additional details,
he indicated that jealousy over the
woman who was Troncoso’s sometimes-girlfriend and Macias’s-sometimes wife, was the crux of the fight
Rogers said.
“Macias was hit in the head, likely
by the machete, and knocked silly,”
Rogers said. “Then he was stabbed
10 to 12 times with a knife in the heart
area. Usually this type of injury with a
number of wounds indicates that the
victim and assailant knew each other.”
Rogers described investigation of
the case as “almost cut and dried,
over in 24 hours.” Troncoso confessed the next afternoon, Rogers
said, adding, “It was all over a woman
neither one of them was living with.”
In Troncoso’s trial, in January of
2003, in Judge Patrick Sebesta’s
court, Troncoso pled not guilty.
Assistant District Attorney Jon
Hall prosecuted the case and said
Troncoso cut off Macias’s vehicle in
the parking lot, and when Macias got
out of his SUV, Troncoso attacked him
with a machete and a butcher knife.
“He put the machete into the victim’s
head three times and stabbed him 15
to 18 times,” Hall said.
Troncoso testified in court that the
woman who had been involved with
he and Macias asked him to make
Macias leave her alone.
The woman did not testify at the
trial.
Troncoso also told the jury that he
tried to talk to Macias and scare him
off, but Macias came at him with a
weapon.
Assistant District Attorney Terri
Holder, the assistant prosecutor the
case, said that testimony conflicted
with the videotaped confession he
gave at the time of his arrest.
Troncoso’s claim that Macias had a
weapon “never came out until trial,”
Holder told reporter Michael Wright,
covering the trial for the Brazosport
Facts newspaper.
Holder said Troncoso also claimed
at the trial that Macias kicked him and
bruised him, but on his booking sheet
at the county jail, which was viewed
by the jurors, he told deputies he had
no injuries.
The jury found Troncoso guilty of
murder, and assessed his punishment
at 55 years prison. He is now serving
his sentence in the Clements Unit of
the Texas Prison System located in
Amarillo, Texas.
Marie Beth Jones is published
author and freelance writer based in
Angleton, Texas
Murderer. God Bless my soul, don’t
blame my children, or I will forsake thee.
“Dr. Winston Martin, Christmas eve,
1976, Galveston, was murdered and
thrown into the waters behind the
Galveston Yacht Club.”
That is the saga of the eerie disappearance of Dr. Winston Leckey
Martin and the detailed murder confession detailed in a book manuscript
by his former friend, classmate and
patient. A confession that details a
murder within the timeline, evidence
and witness testimony contained
in the investigation reports of the
Galveston Police Department.
It was reported by those who read
the manuscript that the repercussion Son got from them was so
shocking he then amended it to
claims that only that paragraph in
his true to life biography was fiction.
In the 40 pages of police investigative reports made available to us
by the Galveston Police Department
during our research of this story
there was no mention of John D.
Son. There was no mention of any
reports concerning the Galveston
Yacht Club. There was no mention
that the leg at the county morgue was
ever discussed with any member of
Dr. Martin’s family to determine if the
leg was his or if they could identify
the shoe.
Although Galveston detectives conducted an exhaustive investigation
of the case, interviewing friends,
associates, family members and at
one point even dragging the waters
around the Galveston ferry landing on
a tip that Martin’s car may be there,
they declared the case “Inactive” on
February 2, 1977 and it has not been
revisited since.
Why would one include in an
autobiography
a
confession
to an actual murder so real and
so believable, only the real killer
could have known the details, then
later recant and label it fictitious?
Was John Son on another one of his
psychedelic trips when he scribed
the confession then with clear mind
realize he had made a grave error for
which he could be prosecuted and
claimed it was fiction?
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Guest Commentary by Jes Garza
t
was
inevitable
that the
United States
Supreme Court
would come
to the point in
time to consider the burning question of
Jes Garza
what is cruel
and unusual punishment. This question is a most interesting one, especially in view of the fact that when
our country was in its infancy and
just after the American Colonies had
joined together to become individual
states, they ratified the United States
Constitution along with the Bill of
Rights.
Cruel and unusual was not specifically defined in the Bill of Rights, but
most of our founding fathers were
reasonable and prudent men who
were also well educated. I presume
that they believed that most citizens
of average intelligence would use
common sense to make that determination. We should also remember
that during the late 1700’s and into
the 1800’s public hangings for certain serious crimes was an acceptable punishment. I might add that
this form of punishment was also a
graphic deterrent to those crimes.
The firing squad was also an accepted form of punishment by our military for certain very serious crimes
against society and our country’s
national security interests. Some
persons would argue that death by
a firing squad is most certainly cruel
and unusual. Then others could make
the argument that a bullet to the brain
is quite expeditious and merciful!
Again, remember that at the writing
of our country’s constitution death
by hanging and by firing squad was
acceptable and was not challenged
by any practicing attorney or advocacy group. And if I have overlooked
any challenge on this issue during
that time of our country’s history, I
welcome a correction.
In the arena of serious criminal conduct the typical violent perpetrator
often uses cruel and barbaric acts
that cause great pain and suffering
during their violent attacks that leave
their victim(s) seriously incapacitated, dead or dying. They certainly
could care less that their aggressive
violent behavior is cruel or unusual
toward the person or persons they
attack. What is sad or downright
wrong is that too often the criminal
suspect escapes justice when their
attorney uses a legal technicality or
loophole in the law to “get their client
(the suspect) a walk” on the criminal
charge(s).
The question/challenge that has
been made or brought through a
law suit on behalf of two death row
inmates is regarding the process of
lethal injections. The plaintiffs in the
law suit through their attorneys are
claiming that death by lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.
Oh, really? I don’t have the details of
those inmates’ cases and what their
violent behavior or aggressive acts
were that resulted in the death(s) of
their victim(s), but it is very probable
that most law-abiding citizens would
describe them as painful, cruel and/
or unusually gruesome.
While thinking about this issue, it
has occurred to me that of all the
people who die on a daily, weekly or
monthly basis, there are a small percentage of those who pass away in
their sleep. I have thought at certain
times in my life that people who die
in their sleep die a peaceful death.
I’d like to think that when someone
suffers a massive heart attack or a
stroke while sleeping that they did
not experience any pain or suffering.
I cannot imagine that it is a cruel and
unusual way of passing from this life
to the next. It would seem to me that
death by lethal injection is a similar or
same type of process.
On the other hand, there are those
folks who think that a hang nail is cruel
and unusual situation. I think it highly
likely these are the same people who
think that individual responsibility for
a person’s negative or anti-social
actions do not merit any serious or
life-changing consequences. This is
especially true if there is even a slight
possibility that someone else can be
blamed for the person’s actions. In
the absence of someone to blame,
an organization, a group or a system
will suffice for the responsibility that
properly belongs to the perpetrator
of the illegal act or the aggressive/
destructive behavior.
I know that many persons come
from single parent homes, broken
families and poor neighborhoods. I
came from a poor neighborhood
in Alvin, Texas, in the late 1940’s.
A very large percentage of those
persons decide to rise above their
challenges and circumstances, and
they become productive citizens who
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Felicia Prechtl was murdered on
August 2, 1991. That day, she had
arranged for her brother and his
girlfriend to babysit her young son
so that she could go out with her
friends in the evening. Around 6:00
p.m., Prechtl’s brother and his
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son to go to the grocery store,
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Prechtl’s clothes were still in the
hallway. Eventually, Pretchl’s brother entered the bathroom and saw
Prechtl lying face down, with her
jeans and underwear pulled down
to her knees, and her wrists and
ankles bound by duct tape. She
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and blood was pooled around her
head.
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to the head. The trajectory of the
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collected as evidence. Fingerprints
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comparison, and several potential
matches were identified, among
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in the same apartment complex as
Prechtl at the time of the murder.
On July 17, 1996, he was arrested.
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My Side of the Cat Killing at San Luis Pass
By John Newland
Editors Note
In the January Gulf Coast Edition
of The Police News, we published a
story by Jim Stevenson, the man who
was arrested, tried and acquitted of
shooting and killing a cat at the San
Luis Pass Bridge. Toll Booth worker
John Newland called the police which
brought about Stevenson’s arrest.
There are at least two sides to every
story. This is the other side which we
have agreed to publish in the interest
of being fair and balanced.
Editor
I have sat silent since the trial of Jim
Stevenson, the man who admitted
killing my cat at the San Luis Pass
Bridge, but was acquitted of the animal cruelty charge in court by a split
jury. At first I thought it would be best
to just let things go away, however, it
seems Jim Stevenson doesn’t want
to do that. So I have decided to
respond to all of the craziness that
continues to appear in newspapers
and magazines.
During the trial I was not allowed
inside the courtroom or even to talk
about the trial, except when I was put
on the stand to testify.
Stevenson’s attorney kept him off
the stand to be sure he didn’t further
incriminate himself.
While I was on the witness stand
Stevenson’s attorney made it very
clear that if I insisted that I owned the
cats at the bridge I would be in violation of several city ordinances by letting my cats run free, for not having
them all properly vaccinated and for
not having them spayed or neutered.
The defense for his whole case was
that “Momma Cat”, the murdered,
pregnant cat, was a feral cat with no
owner. His attorney knew that I could
not afford to pay fines or to take all
of the cats to a veterinarian. It was
all I could do to keep them fed, so
my testimony was that I cared for
and fed the cats, but I did not own
them. I was warned that if I so much
as mentioned any cat other than the
cats that Stevenson was arrested for
killing, there would be an immediate
mistrial.
His attorney told the jury a very
touching story of how Stevenson
struggled with his conscience before
deciding the endangered ‘Piping
Plover’ bird was more important than
any feral cat, so he did the only
thing he could do and shot the cat to
death. If you believe that, then let me
tell you the real truth that I was not
allowed to tell in court.
Ever since I came to work at the
toll bridge five years ago I began to
feed the cats. Every once in awhile
I would find one of the cats shot to
death. I would put the dead cat in a
large feed sack and bury it beneath
the bridge. These shootings began
happening more often and I thought
it was probably some hunter taking
target practice or some kid with a
new rifle.
Over the years I have buried at least
a dozen cats that were shot to death.
Several cats simply disappeared. I
figured they probably were shot and
managed to crawl to their den where
they died.
One day I found one of my favorite solid black, long hair cat named
Fluffy. He had been shot right off his
feeder. Fluffy had been neutered just
weeks before and clearly had his ear
notched so anyone could tell. Fluffy
was buried next to the other cats.
I moved their feeders to the top of
the bridge. I thought their chances of
survival would be better with the traffic than with people shooting them. I
still have a feeder, water, and beds
beneath the bridge.
A few days before Jim Stevenson
murdered Momma Cat, two of the toll
collectors were at work about 10:30
in the morning when they heard four
gun shots. Then they saw a silver or
gray, 4-door, compact car speed from
under the bridge and race toward the
beach. When I came to feed the cats
I was horrified to find a mother cat
and her two week old kittens shot
to death in their bed. I also found a
young male tabby shot to death while
lying on the concrete pillars.
After I buried the three cats I went
up to the toll booth and talked to the
workers. Finally after all of the murdered cats we had the description of
a car to look for.
That night while I was working
Momma Cat came up to feed. She
was limping badly and I could see
blood on her foot. She was very skiddish but I eventually managed to get
her to come to me. She had three
B
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Game Warden Captain, L.L. Fluitt in
Galveston. Stevenson plea bargained
on charges that he had in his possession Logger Head Turtle body parts.
Charges were dismissed. However,
he was found guilty on the other
five charges, the most interesting of
which was that he captured a Piping
Plover. He was assessed a fine and
court cost and placed on probation
for 90 days.
Fiction: In Jim Stevenson’s own
bird tabloid, The Gull and Herron,
2007 winter edition, he writes of his
triumph in court and says that only a
small number of jurors failed to vote
for his acquittal.
Fact: Eight of the 12 jurors voted
to convict him. The other four voted
to acquit.
Fiction: In the same issue of his tabloid Stevenson displays a photograph
of a dead Piping Plover, with its head
missing, lying in the area of the cat
feeder, leading one to believe the bird
had been killed by a cat.
Fact: In the five years I have been
feeding the cats, I have never found a
bird carcass anywhere near the feeders. In fact, when an autopsy was
performed on the bodies of Momma
Cat and three others, the only thing
found in their stomachs was cat
food.
Fiction: Stevenson admitted shooting at least a dozen cats on his
own property, and he described how
mercifully he executed them with a
single, .22 caliber bullet fired behind
the ear, execution style.
Fact: Momma Cat was pregnant
and shot in the spine and suffered for
more than an hour as a helpful and
compassionate police officer rushed
her to an animal clinic in a effort to
save her life.
Fact: After Stevenson’s trial he
claimed someone tried to shoot him
as he stood on the porch of his home.
Of course, he was the only one there
so there was no witness. Police did
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The following week I was working
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letters on the side of it. I had seen
this van many times before around
San Luis Pass, usually carrying bird
watchers. When the van disappeared
beneath the bridge I really didn’t pay
much attention. I didn’t connect it
with the cat shootings because we
were watching for a small, silver, 4door, compact car. Then we heard a
rifle shot. I immediately ran out and
saw the van parked. I screamed for
him to stop shooting.
The chase and arrest of Jim
Stevenson became big news and
was on all the TV news channels as
well as in People Magazine, New York
Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Stevenson was stopped by police
fleeing the scene and his rifle was
recovered from his van. He was
arrested and made bail, charged with
Animal Cruelty for shooting and killing
Momma Cat.
Now, here are some of the things
about this incident that I believe to
fact and some that I believe to be
fictitious.
Fact: Jim Stevenson owns a 4door, silver, compact Chevy that was
later identified by the two toll booth
workers as the same car they saw
speeding away from the scene when
the three cats were murdered and
Momma Cat had her toes shot off.
Fiction: The convenient story
Stevenson told about an injured cat,
referring to Momma Cat, stalking a
Piping Plover, an endangered bird.
He commented, “You know how
dangerous an injured predator can
be.” So he searched his conscience
before deciding that an endangered
bird was worth more than an injured
feral cat.
Fact: As a matter of public record,
Jim Stevenson was issued six citations by Texas Parks and Wildlife,
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also take personal responsibility for
themselves and what they do. They
make positive choices that lead to a
better life and they become important building blocks for our successful and viable society. We must all
be part of the solution and hold each
other accountable for the choices we
make.
It is too easy to make excuses or
blame someone else for our mistakes. Juveniles learn very early in
life to blame someone else for their
mistakes or their lack of responsibility. Is it possible that some persons
are more inclined to avoid personal
responsibility? Is it possible that this
character trait has more to do with
genetics than learned behavior? Or
is it also possible that some persons
are pre-disposed to be irresponsible
in their behavior whenever their early
childhood rearing environment facilitates or reinforces the “blame others
first” mentality?
And so the question or the definition
of what is cruel and unusual punishment against another person will
once again be reviewed and decided
continued from page 17 (Cat Killing)
discover a bullet hole in the door but
news reports said investigators were
skeptical.
Fact: There was a bullet hole in
the door of his home, according
to police, but, with all the shooting Stevenson has done around his
house, who can know when and how
that happened?
Fiction: Death threats on Stevenson?
The only evidence offered were
emails. Are those serious death
threats?
Fiction: All the so-called statistics
about birds being slaughtered by
feral cats had no source. Where do
these stats come from and who did
this extensive research? What about
housing developments encroaching
on bird habitats? How about dirt
bikes, and RV’s running all over the
beaches and dunes destroying bird
estuaries. What about other predators like the raccoon, opossum, coyote, or dog, and not to overlook
predatory birds like owls, hawks and
the Peregrine Falcon that Stevenson
features in his paper attacking a
helpless Piping Plover? Should he or
anyone else be allowed to open fire
on all these other forces that threaten
the so-called endangered birds?
Point: If these homeless feral cats
are being fed and cared for, aren’t
they less likely to be a threat to the
bird population than other predator
which kills birds for food?
by a group of men and women in
black robes. I don’t believe that
collectively they have the wisdom
that King Solomon possessed. Let
us hope and pray that the United
States of America Supreme Court
Justices will ask God for the wisdom
they need to make the high moral
decisions that we, the people, need
for them to make for us and for our
posterity.
The decisions of the United States
Supreme Court are not infallible and
throughout our country’s history
some of the decisions have been
reversed because they were improper or immoral. I believe we can all
agree that their decisions have a serious impact on all of our citizens, and
not just for the next election cycle
but for generations! May the upcoming supreme message from our high
court help save our nation, under
God, with justice for all.
Jes Garza is a retired Houston
Police Officer and currently a Captain
for the Harris County Constable’s
Office, Precinct One. He is a regular
contributor to The Police News.
Fiction: According to Stevenson, it
is perfectly legal to murder feral cats
wherever you find them.
Fact: Jim Stevenson lives in a very
upscale neighborhood on the west
end of vGalveston Island and within
the city limits, a neighborhood with
many homes and people. He has
admitted murdering at least one cat
at the San Luis Pass Toll Bridge
where there are countless fishermen and campers in a recreation
area, plus vehicle traffic crossing the
bridge. A .22 caliber rifle bullet can
travel at least a mile. Isn’t there a law
forbidding the discharge of firearms
within the city limits? Yes!
Fact: In Stevenson’s paper he features a photo of a Peregrine Falcon
attacking a Piping Plover. Does he
shoot Peregrine Falcons too?
Point: It seems clear to me that
a poor little Piping Plover has much
more to fear from a Peregrine Falcon,
or even Jim Stevenson himself, that
from any of my cats.
Editors Note:
In January John Newland was
summoned to Municipal Court in
Galveston, charged by an Animal
Control Officer with harboring cats,
in violation of the city ordinance. In
an agreed settlement between the
city prosecutor and Newland’s attorney, the charges were dropped when
the ordinance was determined to be
flawed and unenforceable.
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MOTES, DOYLE TUNNIE JR
WM DOB 10/23/1949
2819 Mayflower Landing, Webster, Tx
Indecency w/Child - Sexual Contact
Risk Level: NOT AVAILABLE (PRISON
DISCHARGE)
Harris County Sheriff
PERRY,DEVIN JAMES
(2005 Photo)
WM DOB 06/10/1981
3300 Pebblebrook Apt 74, Seabrook,
Tx 77586
Indecency w/Child - Sexual Exposure
Seabrook Police Dept.
VENTO,DAVID ALAN
WM DOB 05/28/1962
14042 Shellhammer Rd. Lot 3,
Winnie, Tx 77665
Indecency Exposure (Second Offense)
Jefferson County Sheriff, Beaumont
WOODARD,LELAND ZANE
WM DOB 03/01/1956
3300 Peblebrook Apt 64, Seabrook,
Tx 77586
Court/Board Ordered Registration
(PAROLED)
Risk Level: HIGH
Seabrook Police Dept.
(409) 621-4000
Clean, Full Sized Cars
and
7 Passenger Vans
24 Hour a Day Service
On the Island or Off the Islan
O'D O N O H O E
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• AUTO
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5928 Stewart Road
Galveston, TX 77551
409-744-1888
The Galveston Housing Authority is accepting applications for the Public Housing Program, Applications
can be picked up at our main office located at 4700
Broadway, or printed on-line by visiting our Web
site at www.Galvestonhousingauthority.org
Public Housing offers many amenities for qualified
applicants such as computer learning centers, on site
laundry facilities, and Flat rents for qualified families.
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Automotive - Commercial - Marine - Residential
Come see us
for all your
Upholstery
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Ask people why they have deer heads on their walls and they will tell you it’s because they’re such
beautiful animals. I think my wife is beautiful, but I only have photographs of her on the wall.
SEX OFFENDERS — Brazoria County
Convicted Sex Offenders are required by Texas law to register with Law Enforcement in the city in which they reside
These Sex Offenders are not wanted by the law…they are published for Community Awareness in cooperation with local Law Enforcement Agencies.
If you have information that any of these offenders are residing at an address other then the one shown, please contact the listed agency. Brazoria
County Sheriff’s Office (979) 864-2392
MoreSex Offenders listed online at: thepolicenews.net
ROKA KENNEL
Bob Coffman
• Training
• Boarding
• In-home Petsitting
281-489-8024
AGUILAR, JOE ANTHONY
W/M DOB 8-31-1965
4530 County Road 459C,Freeport
Indecency with a Child - Sexual
Contact
Risk level: MODERATE
ANNIS, ROCKY JAMES
W/M DOB 10-03-1979
16714 Glen Lane Pearland 77584
Indecency with a Child - Sexual
Contact
CARPENTER, JOHNNIE RAY
W/M DOB: 8-26-1951
1703 County Road 244C Brazoria
77422
Sexual Assault of a Child
Risk Level: NOT AVAILABLE
18119 Timothy — Pearland TX. 77584
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Family Fitness Center
Offering
POLICE FAMILY
MEMBERSHIP DISCOUNT
CARTER, TIMOTHY A
W/M DOB; 8-2-1961
212 FM 524 Sweeny 77480
Indecency with a child - Sexual
Contact
FAIRFIELD, JOE ED II
W/M DOB: 8-5-1958
7423 FM 1462 West, RoSharon,
77583
Prohibited Sexual Conduct - Incest
HARDY, RODNEY JOSEPH
W/M DOB; 11-28-1940
6700 Meadowlark Drive, Alvin, Tx.
Indecency with a child - Sexual contact
www.galvestonfitness.com
(409) 744-3651
2318 83rd Street
FREE
Estimates
ELECTRIC CO.
LOPEZ, ANASTACIO JOEL
W/M DOB; 3-31-1957
1177 CR 205 Angleton 77515
Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child
Risk Level: MODERATE
MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM ERNEST
W/M DOB 08/0/1957
4096 CR-353 Brazoria 77422
Sexual Assault Child
STRATTON, THAD BENNETT
W/M DOB: 12/03/1960
3955 County Road 227 Freeport
Indecency with a Child - Sexual contact
Victim: Male Age 14
Risk level: HIGH
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• Lumber • Plywood
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• Plumbing • Paint
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7500 Broadway, Galv.
Brad Claussen: Manager
30 Day Accounts Available
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744-3401
Contractor’s Line 741-8785
Jamaica Beach Food Store
737-2414
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Where the family name
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same family on the inside.
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Galveston
POLICE NEWS UPDATES
Fine Steaks
and Seafood
Telephone:
(409) 744-0881
Fax: (409) 744-9623
11126 F.M. 3005
POLICE OFFICER
Applicants wishing to participate in the
examination MUST BE PRE-REGISTERED.
Registration is limited to the first 300
applicants.
Register at City of League City, 300 W. Walker
Street, League City, TX, beginning February 4
thru February 22, 2008,
8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Mon - Thurs.
8:00 a.m. to noon Fri., or register online
beginning at 8:00 a.m. February 4, until noon
February 22, 2008 at www.lcpd.com
For more information contact [email protected]
CITY OF LAKE JACKSON
PATROL OFFICER POSITION
The City of Lake Jackson Police Department is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Patrol Officer.
Applicants must be 21 years of age, licensed peace officer in
the state of Texas, high school graduate or GED. Starting
salary ranges from $16.99/hr to $17.90/hr. Benefits include
medical, dental, long-term disability, life insurance, paid
sick leave, vacation and holidays. Full job description and
application available on the City website at ci.lake-jackson.
tx.us, or apply at City Hall, 25 Oak Drive, Lake Jackson, TX
77566, or call for more information 979 415-2440.
CITY OF LAKE JACKSON
DETECTIVE LIEUTENANT POSITION
David Leining Sr.
3604 Ave. S & W 1764
Santa Fe, Texas 77510
409/927-4646
409/939-4081 Mobil
409/927-1986 Fax
[email protected]
WRITERS WANTED
City of League City announces
the administration of the Civil
Service examination for entry-level
police officer.
Written examination will be administered
Friday, February 29, 2008, with physical
assessment Saturday, March 1, 2008.
Starting salary ranges from $27.77/hr to $31.80/hr based on
qualifications with paid holidays, vacation, sick leave, medical,
dental, long-term disability and life insurance. Requires High
School diploma or GED, 60 college semester hours in Specialized
Criminal Investigation, Law enforcement or related field; five
years continuous experience as a criminal investigator in a law
enforcement agency, three of which were in a supervisory capacity.
Requires a Texas Peace Officer’s license and Advanced Certificate
from TCLEOSE. Applications and additional information available on City of Lake Jackson website – www.ci.lake-jackson.tx.us
– or call Personnel at 979 415-2440.
Hello! 911? A Man
Took My Drug Money!
An Orange, Texas man called
police and reported that his drug
money had been stolen. Duh! The
36-year-old man called 911 and
told the dispatcher he had been
robbed. He later told the officer
at the scene he gave a man $10
for drugs and got no merchandise
in return.
After finding the suspect the
officers discovered that in fact no
drugs had been delivered, although
payment was received. The suspect
refunded the customer’s $10 and
no charges were filed.
But when police ran a routine
check on the cheater, they
discovered he was a parole violator
with three felony warrants for his
arrest. He was booked into the
Orange County Jail on multiple
charges, including promotion of
prostitution.
Since it is not illegal to be stupid,
the “victim” was not arrested.
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