Show new friend admits strangling woman unemployed handyman tells police of murder GRAND RAPIDS MICH the strangling of mrs betty ann rob erts was admitted orally police re ported by an unemployed handy man who said he had known the comely 21 year old victim only a few hours detective inspector frank J sul ilvan and assistant prosecutor rog er C mcmahon indicated they would place charges against dale beau I 1 champ 26 after he had finished div ing them a written statement mrs 11 roberts body a worn cot ton dress wound tightly about the aeck was found stretched across the he bed of her downtown grand rap ids apartment she was fully clothed beauchamp who Is married first told police he had found the woman dead when he came to the apart ment to meet her after making her acquaintance three hours earlier in a bar under questioning the slightly built handyman admitted in his oral statement that he killed mrs rob erts in her home because she called me bad names after leaving the bar the officers said beauchamp told them the couple drove to a lake outside the city parked for a time and then re turned to the apartment there beauchamp was quoted as saying mrs roberts began to call him names I 1 told her I 1 wouldn t take those names from anyone not even my wife the officers said he related but she kept yelling at me and I 1 told her to shut up or I 1 d tie her up when she ker kert t hollering I 1 tied her up with the dress and left sullivan said beauchamp told him he then bought some coffee and returned to his home in suburban comstock park but began to won der later whether he had killed the woman and went back to the apart ment unable to deter determine nime whether she was dead he told the authorities he called the apartment caretaker mrs donald kraft who summoned police the victim s husband forrest told police he had been at work all day at a bakery and had no knowl edge of his wife s slaying until called by police |