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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Sunday october 30,1994 mom s to slip leads to girl s body Riviera Beach Fla. A in one hand Pauline Zile clutched a stuffed animal. With the other she wiped the tears streaming from her red swollen  " looking into the television camera she made a near hysterical plea for the re turn other 7-year-old daughter claiming Christina Holt had been abducted from a restroom at a Flea Market. One problem the woman kept refer ring to her daughter in the past tense. Days later police announced that Zile had concocted the abduction tale to cover up her daughter s beating death More than a month earlier at the hands of the girl s Stepfather. Zile s grammatical slip was just one of the inconsistencies investigators uncovered in the death of the second grader whose body was found Friday in a grave behind a convenience store in Tequesta about 20 Miles North of West Palm Beach. ,-./. "., if you think your daughters just been missing for a few hours you re not going to be talking about her every line in the past tense said Jim Leljedal a spokes Man for the Broward county sheriffs of fice. The girl s Stepfather Walter John Zile 32, was jailed without bail thursday on charges of murder As Welt As aggravated child abuse for two previous beat Ings the girl allegedly suffered. He led police to the body. Walter Zile confessed after learning his wife had talked about the death of her child according to a police affidavit released Friday. He told police that he was in his living room sept. 16 and was questioning Christina when she defecated. He hit her several times in the face and on the but Tocks causing her to bleed and go into seizures the affidavit said. The Ziles tried to revive the girl by giving her cardiopulmonary resuscitation and even dunking her in a tub of cold water he told police. They were unable to revive her and kept her body in a closet for four Days while Zile looked for a place to Bury her. He wrapped the girl s body in a Blan Ket sheets and Tarp and buried her in a Field according to police. Investigators believe Pauline Zile 24, witnessed but did not participate in the beating. No immediate charges were brought against her. The tale began last weekend with Pau line Zile s gripping detailed account of her daughter s purported abduction. She said she and Christina had wanted some special Mother daughter time so they drove from their Motel apartment in Riv Iera Beach to the Swap shop Flea Market in fort Lauderdale on saturday. When they arrived they immediately looked for the nearest restroom. Zile said she went into a stall and heard someone go into the stall next to her and assumed it was Christina. She told investigators she was talking to the girl and realized something was wrong when Christina did t respond. Zile said she yelled Christina s name and no one responded. She found her daughter had vanished she said. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago oct. 30,1984 three polish Interior ministry officers charged with kidnapping the Rev. Jerzy Popie Luszko said they dumped the priest s body into either a Reservoir or River but search teams have failed to recover the body. 20 years ago oct. 30,1974 former president Nixon underwent emergency sur Gery after discovery of a new blood clot endangering his life. Doctors said a clip inserted on a vein should overcome the danger permanently. 30 years ago oct. 30,1964 bolivian army troops opened fire on a group of miners and first reports said that 30 miners were killed and several injured. 40 years ago oct. 30,1954 president Eisen Hower opened his final pre election tour with a pledge that the nation would never go to War to solve an unemployment dilemma. 50 years ago oct. 30,1944 with their hol land defense line broken the Ger Man High command was pulling most of its forces North to the Moer Dijk Bridge Over the Maas Estuary using tanks and infantry to screen a Hasty but orderly Retreat. World War ii 50 years ago today oct. 30 19 4 4 american soldiers capture Dag Ami after a fierce fight with the japanese around the town on Leyte in the Philippines offshore japanese Kamikaze planes damage the . Carriers Franklin and Belleau Wood. Nationalist chinese troops attack the japanese at bungling in Burma s Salween Region. In Europe . Troop capture  in France and British forces take Meldola in Italy. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world Wai ii Bison books corp., 1981 a police question family Check tips on missing s. Carolina Brothers Union . A questioning family members and following up unending phone tips three Days aftera pair of Young Brothers vanished investigators indicated the Case was far from solved. We Are not ruling out anything Union count sheriff Howard Wells said Friday a Day of frantic but fruitless searches for evidence in the disappearance of3-year-old Michael Smith and 14-Montn-old Alex Smith. Their Mother reported they were taken from Herby a carjacked. We do not have a car. We do not have the  do not have a suspect the sheriff said. We have information coming in from friends relatives psychics general crackpots. And we be got to go through All ofit.". The boys Mother Susan Smith 23, said a Man with a gun jumped into her Carat a traffic Light tuesday night and forced her out after a few Miles driving away with her sons still in their safety seats. She was questioned ear Lier in the week and her husband David Smith from whom she filed for divorce last month was questioned again Friday. Wells said authorities were trying to isolate a motive. We Haven t had Ransom demand he said police sketch of suspect David and Susan Smith whose two sons have been missing since an alleged carjacking arrive at the sheriffs office in Union ., on thursday. And no one seemed mad at the  the Greenville news reported saturday that Susan Smith did not pass a lie Detector test Given to her thursday. The newspaper said it could not determine what questions she had failed. Wells told the newspaper that details of Smith s Story have differed at times. We have had questions about her Story. That s Why we talked to her More than one time he said. He re fused to discuss polygraph tests. On Friday two dragnet on opposite sides of this Rural town yielded Little. Accused kidnapper Back in Mexico -. To. Brownsville Texas a a woman suspected of stealing a baby from a clinic and raising him for nearly two years was returned to Mexico on Friday to face child trafficking charges. Paulyna Botello 33, appeared Calm and smiled As a  marshal delivered her to mexican authorities at the Gate Way International Bridge which links Brownsville and Matamoros Mexico. Laura Lugo of Brownsville claims Bot Ello and her sister Rosa Botello lured her to a clinic in Matamoros for what she believed would be a routine prenatal exam sept. 1,1992. Instead Lugo claims doctors sedated her and delivered the baby by caesarean Section against her will. Lugo has Testi fied that when she awoke the Botell Shad taken her baby. The botel los claim Lugo initially agreed to give up the baby then changed her mind after he was born and made up the abduction Story genetic tests determined a 99 percent probability that Lugo is the Mother and excluded Paulyna Botello. Texas District judge Robert f. Barnes on oct. 7 granted Lugo custody of her son now 2. Paulyna Botello and her sister Are charged in. Mexico with child abduction they face no charges in the United states. Rosa Botello is considered a fugitive. It will be a second trial for Paulyna Botello. In october 1993, a judge in mat Amoros convicted her of trafficking of a minor. But an appeals court citing Evi Dence problems annulled the conviction and ordered her released. She returned to the United states where she is a Legal resident belie Feig that she had been exonerated said Felix Recio her extradition attorney. Mexico issued an arrest warrant for a new trial and the Fri apprehended Bot Ello on june 30. No trial Date has been set  
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