Show i Wife's Body Found I Coast Carpenter Jailed As Murder Suspect f t VAN rAN N NUYS UI S Cal June 19 UP Carpenter Barney Banley Lee Mapes lapes 40 was booked on suspicion of I murder Tuesday in the death of I II I his estranged wife Viola 35 whose body was found in brush- brush I covered Topanga Canyon 1 Mapes questioned by police throughout most mast of Monday I night night was booked after he told detectives he wanted to be let I alone and would let the courts decide Mrs Mapes body was found in heavy underbrush near Topanga Canyon road Monday by a motorist motorist motor motor- and his wife The dead dear woman was identified by her fingerprints fingerprints finger finger- I prints taken from the personnel files of a company where when she worked Even before f her bo body y was i iden l n. n I I however Mapes lapes was being heing I questioned about his wife's disappearance disappearance dis dis- disappearance dis- dis appearance on the night of June 4 I The carpenter underwent a lie detector detector test but officers said I the results were inconclusive I I Chief county autopsy surgeon Dr Frederick D D. said a I preliminary examination of Mrs Mapes' Mapes decomposed body hody revealed re- re definite defects on the side and top of oC her skull that that i I suggest the possibility of a wound from a velocity high-velocity rifle or a shotgun Sheriffs Sheriff's deputies estimated Mrs I Mapes lapes had been dead a week or 10 days when Mr 11 and i j Mrs Ray nay Goozey of oC Northridge j I Cal found her body several miles inland from Malibu Beach |