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Wi frf Page 2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday March 8 1996 Suspected serial killer confesses to SLC killing L'iggKTl SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man arrested in California this week and suspected in the slayings of nine men has contessed to last year’s unsolved killing of Roger Ixc Bowman in Salt Lake City police said Robert Joseph Silveria described to California investigators how he heat and slabbed Bowman “He knows quite a hit of the crime that only the killer would know” Salt Lake City police Sgt Sam Hemingway said Bowman 28 a transient from Oroville Calif had been last seen walk ing his dog on April 21 police said Bowman's girlfriend found his body in a culvert near where a number of homeless people lived Utah authorities already had identified Silveria 36 as a suspect in the Bowman killing but were looking for him under the name Brad Foster Utah officials were not sure whether Silveria will be charged in Bowman's slaying Silveria was arrested Saturday in Roseville Calif where Southern Pacific Railroad police noticed he matched the description of a man wanted as “a per son of interest’’ in connection with two December boxcar killings in Oregon lie was held without bail in the Placer County Jail in Auburn for violating his probation for a California theft conviction Word of his arrest prompted inquiries from homicide investigators in several states said Placer County sheriff’s Lt Brad Marcngcr Under questioning he began revealing incriminating details of the bludgeoning deaths of eight homeless men “They were railroad free-riders- victims were known to frequent that culture” The nine killings occurred in 1995 except for one 1981 homicide in Pima County Ariz Prosecutors plan to extradite Silveria to stand trial in Oregon where the most recent killings took place in December The body of William Pettit Jr was found in a boxcar in Millcrsburg Ore on Dec 3 Three days later Michael Clites 24 was found slain in a boxcar in Portland Investigators believe he was killed a few days earlier when the train was near ’’ Marcngcr said “The people that were Eugene A detective investigating the Oregon murders began focusing on Silveria in December after learning he was wanted in Bowman’s death and another killing in Kansas said Salem Ore prosecutor Diana Moffat The detective Mike Quakenbush later discovered Silveria was seen in Portland rail yards shortly after the killings Moffat said the Marion County prosecutors intend to seek a death sentence but must first convince a grand jury to indict Silveria on a charge of aggravated murder Teen says fear made her help ‘Dangerous Minds’ inspiration speaks in Utah ing guide instead of conventional guidelines Johnson said she tried MIDVALE Utah (AP) — to connect with students on their When a hoy starts to fail in level She threatened to beat up one school a teacher generally notices Boys get boisterous they boy if he continued to cut class act out they draw attention to and flunk tests when another tried to intimidate her she told themselves But girls are the opposite says him if he kept it up she’d kick educator and author LouAnnc him in the groin She asked how Johnson whose hook “My Posse he’d like to explain that to the Don't Do Homework” was the principal One boy said he had to cut basis of a movie that starred class so he could earn money to Michelle Pfieffcr “Girls get quieter and quieter and they eventubuy a jacket so she gave him the money in exchange for a promise ally disappear” This observation based on to graduate She pve an unsealed years of teaching and a study of letter to a girl who had been actdropout rates among male and ing out in class The letter was to the student's parents and lavished female students inspired Johnson's second book “The Girls in praise on their daughter She had no more trouble from the girl the Back of the Class” Once she felt like screaming in Johnson who recently so she did: a long class is local bookstore a at appeared scream that lasted until best known as the teacher actress Pfieffcr played in “Dangerous she ran out of breath While teaching these Minds’’ which opened in thestudents at a northern California aters last summer The unorthodox but successful teaching high school Johnson was startled methods she reported her first to learn that in a class made up of 25 girls and 25 boys just 27 book grabbed Hollywood's attention graduated and only five were LouAnne Johnson signs books in Sait Lake City Sunday Johnson’s book young women was the basis of the movie ‘Dangerous Minds' starring Michelle Pfieffer Using her instincts as a teach By The Deseret News fi Mfl mom-kill- er SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A girl has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of obstruction of justice saying she helped throw the body of hpr friend’s mother into a poftd because she was afraid of the alleged killer In exchange for her plea to the third-degrfelony prosecutors dismissed a desecration of a body charge against the girl “1 was scared” the girl known ee only as Thursday “She just killed her mom so why wouldn’t she kill me?” Prosecutors said the teen along with another girl helped drag the body of Donna at-ri- Khaddourah Shelton 40 from the trunk of a rented car into a West Jordan pond Shelton’s daughter who was 13 at the time is accused of strangling her mother AP photo ‘My Posse Don’t Do Homework’ Gay activists in politics chafe mainline Utah parties SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State Democratic Party officials unsuccessfully requested that the Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats remove “Democrats” from their name Now the Utah Log Cabin Club a group of gay Republi- - k cans has added “Republican" to its title — and mainstream party officials are leery of the change “In Utah as you know anyone can call themselves a Republican" said GOP executive director Russ Behrmann since there is mi party registration here “Personally 1 don’t mind" the Log Cabin’s name change he added “But I imagine that a number of people in our party will The (gay and lesbian Republicans) arc part of our party but they should realize that many in our party don't accept the lifestyle choice they make” After controversy erupted over students' efforts to form a club at East High School state Democratic Party chairman Mike Zuhl and Democratic legislators met with GLUD leaders and asked them to remove “Democrat” from their name They cited the example of gay Republicans noting they did not use their parly’s name Also Democratic leaders said they had enough problems in conservative Utah without people associating gay rights with (he party structure GLUD officials refused to drop their Democratic name association noting they had registered Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats as a trademark In his announcement of the Republican name change gay-lesbi- an Qr4TV mm rOPtRpPAifVCREstimate 1 MuffiLr and exhaust work alfbrands 1 SR Qwsnzedalnrnent jjjsjt 'JOHN D 5 JV'vr I 41! 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