European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 08, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                How to murder your wife and draw $45,410 by Cheryl Reed Dayton daily news this past Christmas 3-year-old Amnia plaid in t get the playschool doll House she wanted Santa to bring. She did t get the training Bike there was t any backyard swing. It was the third Christmas Amnia spent with her aunt Winona Owens and three teen age cousins in Altus okla., since her father shot her Mother to death on dec. 7,1991. Tracy Plair was 22 and Only a few weeks pregnant with her second child when air Force sgt. Eric Plair killed her with a Shotgun blast. Plair who was stationed at Altus fab served two years and seven months in a military prison for the slaying when he was released nov. 4, his fjan de was waiting just beyond the Gates. That s about the time Owens stopped getting $113 a month in child support taken from flair s pay Check. Plair was Able to pay it because like Many military prisoners he got his paycheck behind bars. The Money Plair sent was Small considering the military has paid him $45,410 since his wife s death Federal records show. Plair said he did t Send Amnia More because he knew sometimes Owens received welfare. Plair 30, told the Dayton daily news he spent about $20,000 of the Money in attorney s fees. He banked much of the rest. I walked out of prison with just Over $10,000," Plair said now living in grand Prairie Texas with his franc do. I had a lot of Money saved up and so the rent is paid food is on the table he said. The bodybuilder says he s looking for a Job. He works out with weights and says he is preparing for the or. Texas Competition next year. Now that he s getting his life in order he says he will fight for custody of his daughter whom he has not seen. Owens says Shell make it. There s a lot of stuff i m not going to be Able to get for her. But it will be of. I be raised that baby As my own. She s my dead sister s flesh and blood. He gave up All his rights when he went to prison. He did t think about that when he killed my sister Cox news service Winona Owens holds a photo of her slain sister Tracy Plair and flair s daughter Amnia in Altus Owa. Crime pays continued from Page 5 _. $148,616, and he still gets $4,739.40 a month which includes a pay raise of $102 a month he received in january 1994. His family is supposed to get about $1,800.of it for support. He Likely would have gotten nothing had he been in the Canadian military. The canadians assign a military assisting officer to ensure the family needs Money the family s need and other sources of income also arc investigated by provincial welfare officials who recommend an amount the military should pay. So if you re not entitled to anything under the welfare system. You re not entitled to anything under our system either said maj. Jones the Ca Nadian military spokesman.  for mistakes even when a military court is so outraged by a crime that it cuts All pay even when the convict has"1" no living relative to support a service member still can earn his full military paycheck for years. The military did t want army sgt. Ronald Webster to get paid but he got his Money anyway. In 1982, Webster was convicted of rape burglary As Sault resisting arrest and 10 other charges involving aril Wack on a fellow Soldier in her Barracks at fort Story a .1.1/ ". A he was sentenced to lose his pay $965.70 a month but four years after his conviction Webster said the military found an error in his Case. _ the error did not earn Webster a new trial or prove his innocence but it did earn him the right to re subunit his Case for clemency. So the military he said paid him four years of Back pay. I think it was about $38,000 to $40,000 after taxes said Webster who was released from Leavenworth nov. 18 and lives in Cincinnati. Military members who win certain types of a v peals even years after trials can receive full Bank pay for the time it took to Appeal the Case. A if a defense attorney can t find a reason to Appeal a Case lawyers working for the highest court for Mili tary appeals will try to find one for them unlike Oiler civilian Appeal s courts in the country the Mili tary s highest appeals court a s lawyers to search cases for Legal errors even when appeals arc no filed. And in Case both a defense attorney and the appeals court can t find errors convicts at leaven Worth can search for themselves using the prison s 6,000-Volumc Law. Library. Lawyers have told us we have a better Library " than they have in their offices army spokesman staff sgt. Alvah Cappil said As he showed off the prisons facilities during a tour last  Webster said he invested some of the Money he won in his Case. T t think 1 had $5,000 in stocks. You can invest in anything you want in prison. You nest can t form a business Iru Here All you do is. Get a broker. You stay in Contact with your broker and do in War the phone. They accept collect  he a so used the Money to Start a  com Pany in Cincinnati. I think i deserve the Money Webster said. That s the Wiy the system works. Ulicy be Bee doing it for years. It s a whole different kind of sys. Tern.". _. Cox h to Page 6. Sunday january 8, 1995