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VOLUME VII, NUMBER 2
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Murdered Parents Were
Actually His Aunt and Uncle
By Marie Beth Jones
A
lvin firefighters, called to a mobile home fire five miles west
of Alvin about 2 o’clock in the
morning, January 12, 1980, noticed immediately that the most intense flames
were in the bathroom area.
From the beginning, they noted the
fire was “suspicious” in nature. Captain Gene Smith of the Brazoria County
Sheriff’s Office said “there were several
things wrong” there.
About daylight firemen and Sheriff’s
deputies searched the scene, confirming
their suspicions.
The body of 33-year-old Wanda Baize
was lying on the bed in the bedroom,
and the body of her husband, Ronald
Eugene Baize, 37, was found about five
minutes later, on the living room floor.
The couple’s car was missing. Neighbors told investigators the Baizes’ 16year-old son, Thomas Joel Baize, had
been home for a weekend visit from the
Gulf Coast Trade School, a youth rehabilitation center at New Waverly, but he
was not on the scene.
Thomas had been at the school, which
served as an alternative to the state
youth correction facility, since November, the neighbors said, but he had been
picked up by his parents for a weekend
furlough the previous Friday.
Later, on the day of the fire, the Harris
County Medical Examiner’s Office reported that both of the victims had been
shot.
A .44 caliber Magnum pistol belonging to Baize was found in the wreckage
of the mobile home.
Upon learning this, Matt Wingo, the
sheriff’s investigator on the scene, radioed for officers to be on the lookout for
Thomas Baize and for the family’s 1978
Pontiac.
The car was spotted on the SH 35
Bypass near Alvin later that afternoon.
Thomas and two juvenile passengers
were taken into custody. They had beer
in the car, and the two passengers were
charged with minors being in possession
alcohol.
After taking custody of Thomas, Wingo told him that his parents were dead.
Noting his reaction Wingo wrote that
Thomas “simply stated, ‘Really,’ with
no affect.”
Wingo said Thomas was taken before
Justice of the Peace A.L. Lee in Angleton, and was interviewed by Juvenile
Investigator Eileen Thacker.
He gave a full confession, “including
telling us the bloody clothing he had on
when he killed his parents” was at the
residence of friends, Wingo’s report
read.
Before Thomas could sign his confession, however, he was stopped from
doing so by John Davis, his court-appointed attorney.
Thomas was 16 years and five months
Murdered...Cont. on pg 3
February 2010
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Washington is a black man, 5’11, 140lbs, black hair, brown eyes with no
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1. Of course I look familiar. I was here just last week cleaning your carpets, painting your shutters, or delivering your new refrigerator.
2. Hey, thanks for letting me use the bathroom when I was working in your yard
last week. While I was in there, I unlatched the back window to make my return
a little easier.
3. Love those flowers. That tells me you have taste...And
taste means there are nice things inside. Those yard toys your
kids leave out always make me wonder what type of gaming
system they have.
4. Yes, I really do look for newspapers piled up on the driveway. And I might leave a pizza flyer in your front door to see
how long it takes you to remove it.
5. If it snows while you’re out of town, get a neighbor to
create car and foot tracks into the house. Virgin drifts in the
driveway are a dead giveaway.
6. If decorative glass is part of your front entrance, don’t let your alarm company
install the control pad where I can see if it’s set. That makes it too easy.
7. A good security company alarms the window over the sink. And the windows
on the second floor, which often access the master bedroom-and your jewelry.
It’s not a bad idea to put motion detectors up there, too.
8. Its raining, you’re fumbling with your umbrella, and you forget to lock your
door-understandable. But understand this: I don’t take a day off because of bad
weather.
9. I always knock first. If you answer, I’ll ask for directions somewhere or offer
to clean your gutters. (Don’t take me up on it.)
10. Do you really think I won’t look in your sock drawer? I always check dresser
drawers, the bedside table, and the medicine cabinet.
11. Here’s a helpful hint: I almost never go into kids’ rooms.
12. You’re right: I won’t have enough time to break into that safe where you keep
your valuables. But if it’s not bolted down, I’ll take it with me.
13. A loud TV or radio can be a better deterrent than the best alarm system. If
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1. Sometimes, I carry a clipboard. Sometimes, I dress like a lawn guy and carry a
rake. I do my best to never, ever look like a crook.
2. The two things I hate most: loud dogs and nosy neighbors.
3. I’ll break a window to get in, even if it makes a little noise. If your neighbor
hears one loud sound, he’ll stop what he’s doing and wait to hear it again. If
he doesn’t hear it again, he’ll just go back to what he was doing. It’s human
nature.
4. I’m not complaining, but why would you pay all that money for a fancy alarm
system and leave your house without setting it?
5. I love looking in your windows. I’m looking for signs that you’re home, and
for flat screen TVs or gaming systems I’d like. I’ll drive or walk through your
neighborhood at night, before you close the blinds, just to pick my targets.
6. Avoid announcing your vacation on your Facebook page. It’s easier than you
think to look up your address.
7. To you, leaving that window open just a crack during the day is a way to let in
a little fresh air. To me, it’s an invitation.
8. If you don’t answer when I knock, I try the door. Occasionally, I hit the jackpot
and walk right in.
Sources: Convicted burglars in North Carolina, Oregon, California, and Kentucky; security consultant Chris McGoey, who runs crimedoctor.Com; and Richard
T. Wright, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, who
interviewed 105 burglars for his book Burglars on the Job.
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Murdered..Cont.from pg 1
of age at the time of the murders, seven
months shy of legal age to be held responsible as an adult under Texas law.
Rather than booking him into the Brazoria County Jail he was placed in juvenile
detention, Wingo said.
The unsigned statement given by
Thomas shortly after his arrest stated
that his mother had picked him up at the
trade school on January 11, 1980, and
when his father came home from work
that evening, “He was gripey because he
had just had a tooth pulled.”
According to his statement, he had
asked for some money, but his mother
would give him only a dollar. She had
been paying bills, and took her purse
and put it away in the bedroom, then
went into the living room and sat in a
recliner while his father slept on the
couch, Thomas said.
He told officers that about 7:30 in
the evening he went into the bedroom,
where he found his father’s .44 Magnum pistol that his mother had hidden
from him the previous night.
The gun was loaded and he went into
the living room and shot both of his parents three times each.
He said he picked his mother up from
the chair in the living room and put her
on the bed, because the chair in which
she had been sitting was in front of a
window.
He took the money his mother had
set aside to pay bills and after wiping
his fingerprints from everything he had
touched, he took a change of clothes
and drove the family’s car to a friend’s
house.
His clothes were bloody, and he told
those at his friends’ house that it was
from butchering a hog.
In his statement to Wingo, Thomas
said he returned to the house to make
certain his parents’ bodies were where
he had left them, and at that time doused
them with kerosene from a lantern, and
set them afire.
Pretrial activities included examinations by two psychiatrists and two psychologists. Both determined Thomas
was not mentally ill and that he could
understand the case against him.
They said he was “sophisticated and
mature” enough to understand the difference between right and wrong and
the nature of the charges against him.
In certifying him as an adult note was
made of the likelihood that he could not
receive sufficient rehabilitation through
“facilities, services and procedures”
available in the juvenile judicial system
to provide adequate protection of the
public.
One of the most unusual facets of the
case came about during these examinations, when the psychiatrists/psychologists revealed to Thomas for the first
time that the couple who had reared him
were not his blood parents, but actually
were his aunt and uncle.
In response to a motion by the defense
urging dismissal of Thomas’s confession, the Court of Criminal Appeals held
on March 30, 1980, that his confession
was voluntary.
On April 10, 1980 the Brazoria County Grand Jury indicted Thomas for two
counts of murder. On June 25, John Davis withdrew as defense counsel and the
Court appointed Sam Bass Jr. to replace
him.
Thomas entered a not guilty plea and
a jury was selected on September 22,
1980.
On September 23rd, after motions
were heard, Thomas changed his plea to
guilty in the murder of his foster father,
in exchange for reduction of that charge
to voluntary manslaughter, a second degree felony, as well as dismissal of the
charge of murdering his foster mother.
Physical evidence in the case included
the defendant’s bloody clothes which
were retrieved from his friends’ house;
spent .44 caliber bullets taken from the
scene; three spent .44 Magnum shell
casings, also found at the scene; photos; bloody, black boots, taken from the
Thomas; his unsigned confession; and
$165 in cash.
The Harris County Medical Examiner
reported that both Randall Eugene and
Wanda Baize were dead before their
bodies were consumed by fire.
Thomas was found guilty of the voluntary manslaughter of Randall Eugene
Baize, and was sentenced to 20 years in
prison.
During the trial, Brazosport Facts reporter Terry Donahue obtained an exclusive interview with a woman in the
audience, who identified herself as Betty
Baize, and said she was Thomas’s birth
mother.
She told the reporter that her son had
not known this and believed that she was
one of his aunts. She said she was raped
when she was 15, and had become pregnant with Thomas from that incident.
He had always believed the two victims were his parents, she said, adding
that they had given Thomas “a lot of
love” and “tried to raise him well.”
In his written report about his questioning of Thomas, Wingo wrote, “I
asked Thomas if his [foster] parents
said anything when he shot them,” and
he said his father did.
Wingo then asked what Baize had
said.
Thomas first replied, “It doesn’t matter any more.”
When Wingo told the youth he was
“just curious,” Thomas replied that his
father had said, “I love you, Tommy.
Please help me.”
Thomas Joel Baize was sentenced to
20 years for voluntary manslaughter. He
was received in the Texas prison system
on September 25, 1980 and released on
mandatory supervision on April 6, 1987.
He remained under supervision until
July 26, 2000, at which time his sentence expired.
Baize actually spent seven years in
prison for the cold blooded murder of
two people who he beleived were his
parents all his life.
Happy Birthday Police News
By Breck Porter
This issue of The Police News is our 72nd edition and marks our sixth anniversary of publication.
The Police News began in February, 2004 as the Galveston Police News
and was published by the Galveston Municipal Police Association. Our first issue was
eight pages of an all black and white paper. We
printed 5,000 copies and spread them out over
Galveston Island in stores and businesses that
would allow us to.
That first issue was an instant hit so we upped
our numbers to 7,500 the next month. They disappeared equally as quick as the first issue.
In 2004 the GMPA was under the leadership
of Officer John Bertolino. He and the directors of that time were a very progressive bunch.
They never sat on their laurel, as the saying
Breck Porter, Editor/Publisher
goes, and Bertolino was frequently seen on the
municipal TV channel discussing one issue or
another with the city council having to do with the officers he represented.
Bertolino was backed by an equally progressive Board of Directors, namely Vice-President Joe Pena, Treasurer Doug Balli, Secretary John Courtney,
and representatives of the various police divisions; Louis Trochesset, Sammy
Parks, Gordon Pean, John Owens and Jeff Heyse.
When the first issue hit the streets it was called “On Patrol” a name given it
by Louis Trochesset. It quickly became known by the reading public as ‘that
Galveston police newspaper’ so we changed it to “Galveston Police News.”
As it spread throughout the county and into other counties the named changed
several times until we finally gave it the generic name “The Police News” and
it has remained that ever since.
Shortly after moving to Galveston I became friends with Bertolino and that
lead to friendships with others in the GMPA. At the time I was managing websites for police organizations and working on the newspaper of the Houston
Police Retired Officers Association.
Several members of the GMPA, after seeing The Retired Badge, the HPROA
paper I worked on, thought it may be a wise idea for the GMPA to publish
its own paper as a means of getting it’s message to the citizens of Galveston.
The GMPA was of the opinion its officers performed many public service
functions and did many good things which the local press would overlook or
ignore. So, The Galveston Police News took off the GMPA hired me as its
managing editor.
Many unforeseen things happened to change the course of The Galveston
Police News. One of those things was it’s rapid growth and the demand for
it off the island. Many officers lived on the mainland and took papers home
with them to their friends and relatives. As those papers circulated around, the
general public began calling for them. Police agencies on the mainland began
sending articles and stories for us to publish and soon the paper became the
Galveston County Police News and it grew to include stories from and about
every law enforcement agency in the county.
Some members of the GMPA felt the growth was good, others wanted to
keep it local so it would be easier to manage and have more impact for the
GMPA. That was a hot topic of discussion when the GMPA held its election
of officers and Bertolino decided to retire as it’s President.
The new administration was not as enthusiastic about the paper as Bertolino
had been and displayed no interest at all in it and there was talk about suspending publication completely. As those discussions were ongoing Hurricane Katrina and Rita took over national headlines. One more issue was published
reporting on the work Galveston officers did in response to the two destructive
hurricanes, then the GMPA decided to let the paper die.
Of course I was disappointed at the decision because I envisioned a great potential in the paper. The GMPA actually just abandoned the paper completely
without looking back, so I waited for 60 days to see if they would change their
minds, but they didn’t, so I went to press with it as a privately owned, monthly
police news publication. Every advertiser agreed to stay onboard and some of
them still appear in our paper every month.
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The Police News - Page CSI photographs outside apartment where
Kraig Jenkins was murdered (Photo by Breck
Porter, The Police News)
Daylight reveals a missed Christmas (Photo by
Police cars gathered at Jamaica Beach apartment (Photo by Breck Porter, The Police News)
Breck Porter, The Police News)
Grandmother, Barbara Bawarsky, testifies in Gray’s trial.
(Photo by Jennifer Reynolds, The
Daily News)
Profile of a Baby Killer
By Breck Porter
What kind of person would roll a 4-year old
little boy up in bed sheets, stuff socks in his
mouth, and stuff him in a so-called hope
chest, more like a footlocker, and leave him
there until he dies of suffocation?
What kind of man and woman would
get screwed up on methamphetamines and
engage in sex acts with each other starting
on the kitchen bar and moving all through
the apartment while the boy is dying in the
footlocker and his little sister is in a bedroom with the door closed?
James Daniel Gray and
Barbara Ann Bawarsky are
the type and that's what they
were doing three days before
Christmas in 2005 when her grandson,
Kraig Jenkins, took his last breath in that
footlocker.
This woman had custody of the two
children because her daughter was a junky
and an unfit mother. Bawarsky had been
married to Gray at one time and they still
got together for drugs and sex and murder.
Bawarsky made a deal with the DA in
Galveston to roll over on Gray in return for
a 45-year prison sentence. "Stand By Your
Man" doesn't apply when you're facing lifewithout-parole. She testified against him in
his January trial and the 10-woman, 2-man
jury gave him the max, life without parole.
Who was James Daniel Gray before he
became a baby killer? He was the same guy
who had at least nine criminal convictions
already to his credit. The jury didn't get
to hear about that, but it didn't matter. His
wrap sheet included arrests in San Marcos,
San Antonio, LaGrange, and Austin, for
such things as Aggravated Assault, Drug
Possession, Manufacturing and Delivering
Drugs, Possession of Marijuana, DWI, and
Aggravated Assault Against a Public Servant.
Bawarsky's greatest crime was hooking
up with Gray and allowing the murder of
her own grandson while she rolled around
on the floor with Gray while a pan of Meth
was cooking in the kitchen.
Daniel Gray, a man with a decade-long
violent criminal history listens to testimony during his trial. (Photo by Jennifer
Reynolds, The Daily News)
Daniel Gray enters the courtroom on day
one of his murder trial. (Photo by Jennifer
Reynolds, The Daily News)
DA Investigator Doug Warren displays
evidence in courtroom. (Photo by Jennifer Reynolds, The Daily News)
District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk examines
the box in which Kraig Jenkins died,
(Jennifer Reynolds, The Daily News)
Dead boy’s grandmother, Barbara Bawarsky, was cooking meth and having sex as
Kraig Jenkins suffocated inside a footlocker.
(Jennifer Reynolds, The Daily News)
Defense attorney Tom Stickler (L) and DA Kurt Sistruck discuss an
issue during murder trial. (Photo by Jennifer Reynolds, The Daily News)
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Gary and attorney Tom Stickler listen to poll of the jury
after his conviction is announced. (Photo by Jennifer Reynolds, The Daily News)
The Skeleton
By Ed Gooding
As told to Robert Nieman
Every investigator worth his salt wants
to solve every crime that he is associated with. I promise you I was no exception. Regretfully, though, if you work
long enough, you won't solve them all.
Unfortunately, I was not an exception to
that rule either. One of the most frustrating cases I ever been involved in was a
murdered soldier from Fort Hood.
On March 12, 1979, Amy Teresa
Morio of Killeen was riding her horse
when she came upon the remains of
what appeared to be a man. She called
John Foster who lived in a nearby house
and he in turn called the Bell County
Sheriff's Office.
A little after one o'clock that afternoon
I arrived at the scene with my number-one running buddy, Bill Miller of
the Bell County CID Office. What we
found wasn't a body but a skelton. Thee
was no skin on the legs, arms, or head.
What little flesh was left on the torse
was drawn up and discolored so badly
we couldn't be sure if the body was a
man or woman, black or white.
About twenty feet away we found
human teeth and a body impression.
Obviously varmits had recently dragged
the body to its present location. The
skeleton had on what appeared to be a
white T-shirt with the words "Riverside
Trojans" on it, white work pants, white
or light-blue tennis shoes, and athletic
socks. The only other thing we found on
the remains was a small chain around
the neck with a key attached to it. The
key was stamped with 34010-4 and
directly under those numbers, 316.
After Justice of the Peace Madge
Turland held her inquest and officially
pronounced the body dead, she ordered
it sent to the Southwest Forensic Institute
lab in Dallas for an autopsy.
Working on the assumption that the
body was that of a soldier, we searched
the surrounding area with a metal detector. We were trying to find dog tags for
identification, but none were found. As
was standard procedure in cases like
this, I talked with everyone who lived
in the area hoping they might know
something they were not even aware of.
Nothing proved any positive results.
This case, as much as any I had ever
worked, showed just how far people
would go to 'not get involved.' The area
where the body was found was in an open
space covered with short grass; there
wasn't any brush near it. There were
numerous tire tracks coming from Love
Lane to within a few feet of the body.
The corpse was only one hundred yards
from the home of a man who worked at
the Darnell Army Hospital. When asked
if he hadn't smelled the decaying body,
he replied that about two months earlier
he had smelled something, but he was
unable to determine exactly where it
was coming from. He even told us his
dog had come home once, smelling so
bad several baths didn't wash it off. The
man said he thought the dog had found
a dead cow.
Ed Gooding
After leaving the crime scene, I contacted Fort Hood's CID officer, Agent
Alexander, and asked if he could shed
any light on the key we had found with
the skelton. He said the number 340104 and 316 indicated Building 34010,
Wing 4, Room 316. He assured me he
would check it out and get back to me
as soon as he knew anything. It wasn't
long before he called back and advised
me that Dexter Johnson, 21, had been
living in this room and had been listed
as AWOL since October 3, 1978. I
requested Agent Alexander to try and
secure Johnson's dental records. They
were soon delivered to us and a positive
identification was made.
The next day, Bell County Deputy Birt
Wilkerson went to Fort Hood to talk
to people who were close to Johnson.
John Turman said that the last time he
saw Dexter Johnson he was wearing
white medic pants and a gray T-shirt
with the words "Riverside Trojans" on
it. He explained that Riverside High
School in Chattanooga, Tennessee was
Johnson's alma mater.
Johnson had been a member of
Company B, 15th Medical Battalion,
1st Calvary Division. We asked the
commander, Captain Astriab, if he
could shed any light on Johnson's disappearance. He couldn't directly, but he
checked company records and provided
us with the names of two men who had
signed the guest book to visit Johnson
on the night of his disappearance. The
two men had been in the Army but had
since been discharged. One was from
Portland, Oregon and the other from
Henderson, Texas.
We checked the telephone records in
an attempt to find out if either man was
still in the area, but without success. I
had my good friend and fellow Ranger
in Longview, Glenn Elliott, check out
the Hnderson area to see if he could get
a lead. Glenn confirmed that one of our
suspects lived in Henderson and was
currently working in Tyler.
That same morning, Deputy Steve
Moore, who had accompanied the body
to Dallas, was contacted by the Dallas
Forensic Institure. They advised him
that during the autopsy they discovered
an identification card in the pants pocket identifying him as Dexter Johnson.
Dr. DeMaio, the pathologist, informed
Steve that possibly Johnson had been
dead since October or November. Cold
weather tends to dry out and mummify
a body.
While Birt and I were at Fort Hood,
we continued to interview Johnson's
friends. Derrick Garrett said on the night
Johnson disappeared, he had ironed and
laid out his fatigues he would wear the
next day. Johnson was a dandy when it
came to clothes. He was a male model
wherever there was a style show at Fort
Hood. Continuing, Garrest said that
another soldier, Carl Thomas, told him
that he saw Johnson get into a car with
two unknown men about the time he
disappeared.
Further questioning revealed that
Maddox Thompson had been in the
room with Johnson the night before his
disappearance. Two unknown men had
entered the room and asked Johnson
if he wanted to take a ride. Thompson
confirmed he had also seen Johnson
with the two men the following night.
He said Johnson did not appear to
dislike the military and never gave
any indication that he ever considered
deserting.
We continue with the investigation
with few concrete leads that would lead
to an arrest. On March 21st, Dr. DeMaio
advised us that he had been able to take
the madly shrunken skin from the chest
and wet it in some kind of solution for
several days. The solution had given it
some elasticity, so he was able to stretch
it and work with it enough to count
several stab wounds. There were over
sixty icepick marks in the chest when
he stopped counting.
This fit a definite patten. According
to what we were taught in crime school,
a body with that many stabbings, cuts,
and exess mutilation was usually an
indication of a sex crime - more often
than not, a homosexual murder.
Unfortunately, that was as far as we
ever got. There was never any doubt in
my mind that the men from Henderson
and Portland were the killers, but I
couldn't prove it. I had to mark this
homicide up as an unsolved murder.
From the book, "Ed Gooding, Soldier,
Texas Ranger" by Ed Gooding and
Robert Nieman published by Ranger
Publising Co. Longview, Texas and
reprinted with permission.
Ed Gooding joined the Texas Highway
Patrol in 1948 and was appointed a
Texas Ranger in 1957 and served until
1982. He died July 3, 2003.
Robert Lee Nieman, Jr. (Bobby) was a
historian, author, columist and managing editor of the online Texas Ranger
Dispatch Magazine. He was a regular
contributor to The Police News. Bobby
died unexpectedly October 17, 2009.
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Rodney Williams (pronounced Rotney Willums) was best known in the
projects as "Lil Rotney." He was the
product of the genetic and social cesspool on Houston 's northeast side known
as Kelly courts. "Kelly Coats" is a run
down old red brick government housing project located in Northeast Houston. As horrible a place as it is, Kelly
Courts is never likely to pull down the
property values in the rest of the neighborhood. One old street cop who did a
tour in Vietnam during the 1969 Tet Offensive explained it like this, "To clean
out Kelly Courts you're gonna have to
drop two rows of napalm. The first will
get the two legged rodents. The second
strike will be for the roaches." A garden
spot of humanity it ain't.
During his first 19 years on earth
Little Rodney had several brushes with
the law. He had seen the inside of the
Harris County Jail three times since
his 17th birthday. He's also visited the
City of Houston Jail a couple of more
times than that. Growing up in "Kelly
Coats" you learn early on how to spot
both marked and unmarked police cars.
In the hood, cars with black wall tires
and garbage can lids for hubcaps driver by guys in cheap suits are cop cars.
Rodney however, had never heard of an
Arson Investigator. In the great State of
Texas, Arson Investigators are certified
peace officers. They investigate arson
related crimes, draw up warrants, arrest
crooks and put them in prison.
Rodney was walking down Jensen
Driver when three guys pulled up alongside him in an unmarked police car. They
jumped out and pointed guns at him. He
was also given the official Houston Police Department execution of a felony
warrant greeting of "Freeze #@%!#."
Young Mister Williams was cuffed and
stuffed into the back seat of their unmarked city car. Their captive was next
treated to a ride into downtown Houston
at the taxpayer’s expense. When he inquired as to the reason for his detention
he was told to shut up and that everything would be explained to him when
they got to "The Office."
When his captors pulled into the Fire
Command Building he became concerned. While being escorted into the
building Rodney inquired "What we
doin' here? This ain't no Poe-lease station." Once inside he was informed by
an investigator named Faulks that he
was in the Arson Bureau. Rodney exclaimed, "Arsenic, Arsenic, I doesn't
know nothin' bout no Arsenic." He went
on to ask, "Just what is Arsenic anyway,
and how much time can you get for it?"
The answer came back "Arson is the intentional setting of a fire - and you can
get anywhere between two and twenty
years for it." This really peaked Rodneys interest and he further inquired,
"How come da' difference in da' number of years?" His captors explained
(lied) that it all depended if it was a new
or old house that got burned up. Little
Rodney literally beamed as he proudly
exclaimed, "Oh man, that was the oldest
motherf---ing house you ever did see."
Rodney Williams would later be identified and charged in several murders
and armed robberies. He ultimately
pled guilty to five life sentences rather
than face the chance of getting the death
penalty for robbery-homicide. Rodney
had been running with a little group of
thugs that were feeding off of their own
violence. They started out with assaults
and strong arm robberies and moved up
to armed robberies. If a group of this sort
is not jailed pretty quickly they become
frenzied in trying to out do one another
with violence and bravado.
A bit of street corner psychology can let
you understand how the Urban Predator
acts. Once a group of young street animals get into committing violent armed
robberies they will start shooting and
killing people. The crimes continue to
get worse and needlessly more violent
as they attempt to outdo one another.
The term that relates best to this sort of
behavior is "Pack Frenzy." This phrase
is generally used to describe animal behavior. There again, street vermin give
animals with fur, claws or feathers a bad
name. A Blue Tick hound by himself is a
laid back and very easy going sort of animal. He would normally have to speed
up in order to slow down. Alone he is
generally not aggressive toward other
animals. Put three Blue Ticks together
in a pack and they will run down and
shred a bobcat, a very substantial foe.
Little Rodney could not win a fair fist
fight with a healthy fourteen year old.
He and his friend however, could gut
and shoot you and watch you bleed to
death in the gutter with seemingly detached interest.
Brian Foster served the Houston Police
Department 34-years - 23 of those as
a Detective Sergeant in the Homicide
Division. His book, Homicidal Humor
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Scheduled Execution: Feb. 24, 2010
off his overdue federal income taxes.
Skinner is the author of a series of
Henry Watkins Skinner
articles, “Hell hole News”, which are
White man born April 4, 1962
similar to the “Uncensored from Texas
Education: High School
Death Row” of his friend Paul Colella,
Occupation: Paralegal
whose death sentence is was commuted
Native of: Danville, VA
Henry Watkins “Hank” Skinner was to a life sentence .
On November 10, 2007 Al
convicted of bludgeonJazeera International aired
ing to death his live-in
a two-part program entitled
girlfriend, Twila Busby,
“American Justice - Fatal
with a wooden ax handle
Flaws”, dealing with wrongand stabbing to death her
ful convictions through Hank’s
two mentally impaired
case and Curtis McCarty’s who
sons, Randy Busby and
was exonerated from OklahoElwin Caler.
ma death row after 22 years.
The murders occurred
Skinner’s most recent appeal,
on December 31, 1993 at
a federal habeas corpus petition
801 East Campbell Avecentering on inadequate pernue in Pampa, Texas.
Henry
Watkins
"Hank"
formance by his trial attorney
Skinner was convicted
Skinner
on issues involving the investiof the murders on March
gation of an alternative suspect
18, 1994, and sentenced
and
a
blood
spatter analysis, was denied
to death on March 23, 1995. He had
been previously prosecuted for assault by the United States Court of Appeals
and car theft by the very attorney who for the Fifth Circuit on July 14, 2009.
On August 10,2009, Skinner’s Dewas in charge of his defense, Harold
fense
team introduced a new petition for
Comer.
His criminal history was asserted by a rehearing with the 5th Circuit Court
the prosecution at the sentencing hear- of Appeals. The petition was rejected on
ing as reason to find him a “danger to August 28, 2009.
On November 23, 2009, Hank Skinsociety” justifying his execution and the
ner’s attorneys filed a petition for writ of
defense didn’t object.
Skinner maintains his innocence, and certiorari with the Supreme Court of the
continues to appeal his conviction. His United States, then on November 27th
appointed trial attorney, Harold Lee 2009, the defense team filed a complaint
Comer was a former district attorney in federal court against the Gray County
who had prosecuted Skinner in earlier DA, Lynn Switzer, for refusing to recases, before losing his position and lease the evidence to the defense for
pleading guilty to criminal charges over private DNA testing, which she can do
the mishandling of cash seized in drug without a court order.
On Oct 26, 2009, Judge Steven Emcases.
The Washington Post cited Comer’s mert signed the order setting an execuappointment as an apparent case of cro- tion date for Hank Skinner on February
nyism, where Comer was appointed to a 24, 2010.
highly-paid case by a friend in order to
help him raise the funds needed to pay
Birthday...Cont. from pg. 3
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and into so many cities and counties we
finally decided to rename it The Police
News, a generic name that would be
recognizable wherever it was.
Since that time The Police News has
been in news racks and on countertops
throughout several counties. It has never missed a print schedule, even during
Hurricane Ike.
Hundreds of papers are mailed each
month to law enforcement agencies
across the state and many readers all
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Several years ago The Police News
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per published anywhere in the country
for distribution to the public which it
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As a footnote you may be interested to
know where those founding officers are
today. John Bertolino retired from the
Galveston Police Department after nearly 25 years but is still employed by the
City of Galveston as its taxi and wrecker
inspector. Joe Pena is now a Captain and
commander of the uniformed services
division. Doug Balli retired as a Sergeant but later returned to the department and is still serving. John Courtney
went on military leave and served in
Iraq as a Navy medic and is back as a
Sergeant and commander of the Special
Operations Group. Louis Trochesset retired from the department and became
employed with the Galveston County
Sheriff’s Office and is assigned to the
School Liaison Division at Westbrook
Intermediate School in Friendswood.
Sammy Parks left the police department
for employment as a Special Agent for
the Drug Enforcement Administration
and last we heard he was somewhere
on the west coast. Gordon Pean is still
serving the department as a motorcycle
officer in the Traffic Enforcement Division. John Owens was promoted to Sergeant and is serving as a Detective in
the Criminal Investigation Division and
Jeff Heyse was promoted to Lieutenant and most recently to Captain and is
commanding the Criminal Investigation
Division and is the designated official
spokesman for the police department.
Happy Birthday To Us! And thank you
all.
Riding The Lightening
By Matt Stokes
I went through Taser training recently
I have to admit, all of the negative
and I faced the dilemma of deciding hype started weighing heavily on my
whether or not I would voluntarily take mind. The thought of five seconds of
a 5-second exposure. When I originally pain did not seem as big a deterrent as a
heard we were getting Taser X-26’s, I month of chronic neck pain. One of my
immediately told myself that I would good friends was scheduled to go to the
take a hit. However, after a few months class with me and he was determined to
of officers going through
take a hit, which left me
the training, I was bomopen to heavy ridicule if I
barded with stories of neck
wimped out.
and back injuries resulting
When class got underfrom the exposures. Offiway, we received a brief
cers that I respected were
description of the technitelling me that I would
cal specifications on the
be crazy to volunteer afTaser X-26 and an explater they suffered weeks
nation of how conducof neck or back pain. I
tive energy devices work.
Matt Stokes
heard numerous stories
We were assured that the
about how the pain was
weapon was relatively
excruciating and served no practical safe and then we were quickly ushered
purpose. After all, we are not required to the mat room for our voluntary expoto be shot with a .40 pistol before we
qualify with it.
Lightening..Cont. on pg 12
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Lightening..Cont. from pg 11
sures. Of the 14 students going through
that day’s training, 11 of them quickly
made it clear they had no intention of
participating in this portion of class.
One of our senior traffic officers could
not wait to experience it, which left him,
my good friend and myself.
As a supervisor, I decided that it was
more important to lead by example and
risk some aches and pains than it was to
join the large group of wussies standing
off to the side watching. I have to admit
that I had some anxiety as I stepped up
on the mat for my turn.
The instructor offered no small talk and
within a few seconds of turning my back
to him I felt the impact of the Taser. It is
hard to explain the feeling, but I would
liken it to an intense full body muscle
cramp. It was not as painful as I imagined it would be, but I was completely
immobilized for the complete 5-second
cycle. As soon as the Taser finished the
cycle, I felt like I could immediately begin fighting. During the 5-second hit, I
was completely aware of my surroundings and could hear everything that was
happening. It is important to note that
the suspect will be able to do the same
thing. The only side effect that I experienced was very sore calf muscles. It
felt like I had suffered several severe
calf cramps and the muscles were spent.
Later that night, the probe impact sites
were a little sore, but that was it. No
neck pain, no back pain.
The experience was very job relevant
and it will give me additional credibility
in court. I am intimately aware of how
a person should react when they are hit
with the Taser, so I will quickly figure
out if I do not have a successful deployment.
I would have no problem justifying
why I felt justified in shooting a person
attempting to fire a Taser at me.
Most importantly, guys will not think
that I was too afraid to take a hit. Let’s
face it, we all profess to be warriors, so
what is 5-seconds of pain?
If I was told that I had to choose between being pepper sprayed or hit with
a Taser again, I would definitely choose
the Taser. After the 5-second cycle, it is
over and you are pain free.
Matt Stokes is a Lieutenant with the Garland, Texas Police Department.
Visit his website: SpartanCops.Com
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FELONY THEFT
HERNENDEZ, ALEX ELIZARDO
W/M 11/20/1985
LKA TEXAS CITY
MTRP DELIVERY DRUGS
HOWARD, TIFFANY VALENCIA
B/F 04/24/1984
INDICTMENT -FELONY THEFT
KEGLER, ROBERT LEE
AKALIL ROBERT
B/M 10/21/1979
LKA LAMARQUE
ASSAULT / FAMILY VIOLENCE
JINGLES, RICKY LAWRENCE
AKA STAMPS, MICHAEL
B/M 07/03/1983
LKA TEXAS CITY
BOND FORFEITURE/BURGLARY
WASHINGTON, KEVIN EUGENE
B/M 11/29/1982
LKA TEXAS CITY
SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A CHILD
SCHULTZE, LORITA JANEAN
W/F 06/11/1986
LKA GALVESTON
DRUG POSSESSION
VALDEZ, JOE
AKA LOCO
W/M 06/30/1978
LKA GALVESTON
ARSON / 3 COUNTS
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These are NOT wanted fugitives, but Registered Sex Offenders. If observed
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W/M DOB: 11-17-91
4815 16th St # 4
Bacliff TX
Victims: Females/12,14
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Risk Level: None Assigned
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W/M DOB: 01-31-32
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Victim: Female/6
Indecency with child by Contact
Risk Level: None Assigned
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W/M DOB: 01-10-90
3914 W. Estes #A
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Victim: Female/14
Indecency with child by contact
Risk Level: Medium
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W/M DOB: 11-05-89
6925 Avenue L
Santa Fe TX
Victim: Female/15
Indecency w/ a child by exposure
Risk Level: None Assigned
Cawthorn, Michael Ray
W/M DOB: 11-20-75
4330 4th St .
Bacliff TX
Victim: Female/15
Sexual Assault of a Child
Risk Level: Medium
Cook, Kenneth Wayne
W/M DOB: 09-03-72
2511 FM-646 #5
Santa Fe, TX
Victim: Female/12
Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child
Risk Level: Medium
Crites, Alvin Blaine
W/M DOB: 02-09-40
7721 Avenue E
Santa Fe, TX
Victim: Female/6
Indecency with a Child by Contact
Risk Level: None Assigned
Eisenring, Joseph III
W/M DOB: 12-22-78
4210 Warren St .
Bacliff, TX
Victim: Female/9
Indecency with a Child by Exposure
Risk Level:Medium
Martinez,Carlos Edward
W/M DOB:09-14-85
4422 Swan Hitchcock , TX
Victim: Female/14
Indecency with a Child by Contact
Risk Level: Medium
Warrant issued: Failure to register
Williford, Wilford Ray
W/M DOB: 09-30-64
5901 Moore Road
Santa Fe, TX
Victim: Female/12
Indecency with a child by contact
Risk Level: None Assigned
Sorry Officer, This is a Stickup
On February 3, 1998, a Renton (Seattle Area) man tried to commit a robbery.
This was probably his first attempt, as suggested by his lack of a record of
violent crime, and by his terminally stupid choice.
1) The target was H&J Leather and Firearms, a gun shop.
2) The shop was full of customers, in a state where a substantial fraction of the
adult population is licensed to carry handguns in public places.
3) To enter the shop, he had to step around a marked King County Police patrol
car parked at the front door.
4) An officer in uniform was standing next to the counter, having coffee before
reporting to duty.
5) Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a holdup and fired a
few wild shots.
6) The officer and the clerk promptly returned fire, quickly removing the wouldbe robber from the gene pool.
7) Several other customers also drew their guns, but didn’t fire. No one else
was hurt.
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