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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, April 25, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 25, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9long-sought exile arrested after to show West Palm Beach Fla. Up a cuban exile sought in the 1976 car bombing that killed former chilean ambassador Orlando letelier and an aide was arrested tuesday four Days after he was featured on the to crime show a a american a most  Virgilio Paz Romero 39, was arrested at 7 30 . Without incident while in route in his pickup truck to Green heart landscaping. His Boynton Beach business a. A a a a. A he was arrested through Anonymous tips received after Friday nights Televik Sion broadcast of a a american a most wanted a said Fri District chief William Gavin. A a a a a a a a a a at the time of his arrest Paz admitted his identity and expressed Relief that his fugitive status was Over Quot Gavin said. A Spaz has been the owner of the landscaping business since 1985 and. Admitted to living in the West Palm Beach area since 1980.�?� Paz the last fugitive of the seven people charged in letelier a death had been living under an alias in Lake Worth and worked closely with the cuban american foundation in Palm Beach county. No motive had been established for the sept. 21,1976, car bombing Gavin said Paz was being held pending a hearing before a . Magistrate in West Palm Beach. He was charged april 14, 1978, in Newark n.j., with unlawful making of destructive devices unlawful storage of explosives and conspiracy. On May 4, 1978 he was charged in Washington with conspiracy to murder a foreign official. Investigators believe that Paz and co defendant Jose Dioniso Suarez y Esquivel who was arrested in St. Petersburg last april followed letelier a car around Washington for two Days. 1 1 a / Virgilio Paz Romero second from right is escorted into the Federal courthouse by Law enforcement officers in West Palm Beach. They suspect Suarez activated the bomb by pressing two buttons on a Telephone beeping device As they trailed the car in the diplomatic District. Michael Townley a . Citizen who worked for the chilean secret police told investigators he taped the bomb under letelier a car two nights before the explosion. Townley already has served a prison term for the incident. The car was demolished immediately killing letelier. Ronnie Moffitt Lete Liers aide was fatally injured. Moffitte a husband Michael Moffitt was injured but survived. Letelier was foreign minister in the Cabinet of the late president Salvador Allende when Allende was overthrown by the armed forces in 1973. He was ambassador to the United states from 1971 until Early 1973. The Fox network which airs a a american a most wanted received 52 tips about Paz after fridays show said spokesman Jack Broslin. The show featured a reenactment of the incident with a picture of Paz and a forensic artists rendering of what he might look like now. Breslin said the show has featured 348 fugitives since it began in february of 1988. A a there have been 148 direct captures attributed to the show Quot he said. Quot this is certainly one of the most significant to  a Florida executes murderer of teen Starke Fla. Apr a Man convicted of sexually assaulting and killing a teen Ager 10 years ago was executed in Florida a electric chair wednesday hours after the . Supreme court rejected his Las Appeal. Roy Allen Harich 32, died at 7 06 ., after the executioner threw the switch on the electric chair at Florida state prison. Harich was condemned for the june 26, 1981, death of Carlene Gayle Kelly 18, of High Springs. He was the 26th inmate to be executed in the state and the 145th in the nation since the . Supreme court allowed states to resume using the death penalty in 1976. Harich also was the first executed in the Wake Quot of a . Supreme court policy announced last week barring repeated Federal appeals. A a a a a a a according to court testimony Harich picked up Kelly and her Friend Deborah Miller then 17, in Daytona Beach after spotting them waiting at a Gas station during a rainstorm on june 16,1981. Prosecutors said he drove the teen agers to a wooded area to smoke marijuana. When they asked him to leave he ordered them to undress and forced Kelly to perform Oral sex. A he then shot both women in the. Head and slashed their throats authorities said. Kelly died but Miller gravely injured survived and testified at Harich a trial. Attorney John Chapman said Harich a latest Appeal was based on new information that his trial attorney also was a special Deputy sheriff and had taken an oath of loyalty to that office. The 11th . Circuit court of appeals issued a one sentence denial of the Appeal monday. The . Supreme court voted 8-1 tuesday to uphold that decision. Notes Lefft on computer disk make sex Marine murder suspect Alexandria a. Apr the defendant says he was just jotting Down some thoughts about a murder mystery he wanted to write. Prosecutors contend that what was found on his computer disk was a 26-step plan for killing his wife. Step 3 a arrive at night hide  step 4 a Check on weight of  step 15 a How do i kill her a step 25 a Check in Library on ways of murder a Elee Tri cution sic a nobody has seen Marine capt. Shirley Russell since March 4, 1989, and Federal prosecutors say her husband former Marine capt. Robert Peter Russell murdered her although her body has yet to be found. His trial opened tuesday and he has pleaded innocent. Witnesses said Russell was a Womanizer and Drinker who showed an unusual amount of interest in his wife a life insurance policy just a week after he married her. They said he also asked his fellow marines about whether a television set in the Bathtub would deliver enough of a Jolt to kill somebody and unwittingly quizzed an Fri informant about How Long it takes a body to decompose. Sgt. Maj. William Joseph Kane testified that russells marriage did not get in the Way of his social life either before or after . On the weekend he was leaving to get married Russell summoned Kane to his quarters. There Kane said he found the Captain packing his suitcase. Also in the room was a woman not russells Fiancee putting her clothes on. Kane said Russell often was a bragging about the conquests so to  ? but the key piece of evidence exhibit 19a, is a 5va-Inch floppy disk on which Russell stored a file labelled  assistant . Attorney Lawrence j. Leiser said in his opening statement at russells trial that the defendant was concocting a a recipe for murder when he created the computer entries. Russell says the computer file was merely part of a mystery novel he was working on. He is free on $50, Bond. A a a Kane said he found the computer disk when cleaning out Ruskell a office. The Captain had been relieved of duty in february 1988, More than a year before his wife disappeared. The marines were moving to Dis honorable discharge Russell accusing him of alcoholism and misconduct that included filing false reports. Most of the files on the computer disk were clearly military but the one called a a murder was among a few others that piqued Kane a interest. He said that in a Telephone conversation with mrs. Russell a Day later he told her what he had found. A i told her if i was you id be careful a Kane said. A a in a watch out for  is other entries in the a a murder file according to court exhibits include a make it look As if she left. Rehearse mask plastic bags Over feet. Wash Tarp i May need to Cut it a mrs. Russell 29, disappeared from the Quantico Marine base in Northern Virginia and despite intense searches her body has not been found. Russell 34, is being tried in . District court in Alexandria because according to authorities a crime was committed on Federal property. In his opening statement prosecutor Leiser called the defendant paranoid egotistical and obsessive. He said Russell had his friends conduct surveillance of his wife and at one Point broke into her living quarters and placed a listening device under her bed. Other entries in the computer file said there should be an Alibi and the explanation for the murder should be to a blame it on her own  Russell is White and his wife was Black. If convicted Russell could face a maximum life term in prison  
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