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Show linger stand-off ends in shooting, officer is killed i ni a mutt ... h " by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer i ' t I One man was killed and another Wounded Jan. 28 in gunfire that end-fed end-fed the 13-day standoff between law enforcement officers and individuals in-dividuals blamed in the Jan. 16 bombing bom-bing o; the Kamas LDS Stake Center. I State corrections officer Lt. Freddie Fred-die Floyd House, 35, of Orem, was killed Thursday morning by bullets fired from the Singer family compound com-pound in Marion. Prime suspect in the bombing, Addam Swapp, 27, received wounds in the chest and forearm, and is listed in stable condition con-dition at University Hospital in Salt Lake City. He is expected to soon be released from the hospital and arraigned ar-raigned in federal court. Twenty-one-year-old John Timothy Singer, a wheelchair-bound member of the family, is suspected of firing the fatal shot. Law officials estimated more than 100 rounds of ammunition were fired at lawmen, who reportedly returned only two shots to the household. ; The gunfire began about 8:30 a.m. StHffl i .ii -1 1 1n En" "1 n. S V mm 1 1 Comrades leave funeral Monday following a seige at the Singer compound in Marion that resulted in the death of corrections officer, Lt. Fred House. Lt. Fred House laid byTERI GOMES Record editor More than 2,000 people peo-ple crowded into the Orem Windsor Stake Center Monday to pay their final respects to slain corrections officer Lt. Fred House. Those in attendence included hundreds of uniformed law enforcement of- ficers from all over the state of Utah and from as far away as Alabama and Canada. Various dignitaries including in-cluding Utah Speaker of the House Glen Brown and Govenor Norman Bangerter were there to pay their i .respects. . . ". Monday would have been Hundreds of officers give their final salute to fallen officer, Mna ,ayur House's 36th birthday. Lt. Fred House. , Unncn urae killpri ThnrSflMV when he tried to work his dog to Isolate Marion church bombing suspect, Addam Swapp. He was shot by someone inside the farmhouse as he exposed ".-himself from behind a door to 'live his dog directions. The arrest ar-rest attempt using the dog had ieen created to capture Swapp without risking any of the :women or children inside the '.farmhouse. '. House was eulogized by friends and family members as ;i "man of steel and a man of Ivelvet." His sister.Salt Lake '.tribune reporter Dawn Tracy, told those gathered, " His death "will not cause this family to hate. Because we want to be free." . In the two hour services the portrait of a man fiercely com-mited com-mited to both his job and his family emerged. Fred had been, according to his sister, "a contused, con-tused, troubled boy." His work teaching karate to members of the Boys Clubs was done out of understanding and compassion. ' House was a born storyteller, said his sister, and the service rincluded .appropriately , a Jan. 28 and was over by 9:10 a.m., when the remaining members of the 15-person Singer family surrendered and walked out of their home with hands raised. While shots were still being fired, officials transported Lt. House by an armored personnel carrier car-rier away from the compound. None of the nine children in the compound were injured a goal peace officers wanted to achieve since the seige began almost two weeks prior to the shoot-out. The children have been placed temporarily tem-porarily in the custody of their grandparents, Ramon and Harriett Swapp, of Fairview. They include three of John and Vickie Singer's offspring, off-spring, and six of Addam Swapp's children, including five from his first wife, Heidi, and one from his second se-cond wife, Charlotte. The children include Joseph Hyrum Singer, 17; Hans Benjamin Singer, 15; Israel Singer, 13; Anazella Swapp, 6; Vanya Swapp, 5; Hans Swapp, 3; Isaiah Swapp, 2; Lillian Swapp, 10 months; and John Swapp, 1 12. The five uninjured adults who had been holed up in the compound were .Trite tail ' K 'n IJT7kC. "' - ..V7 V V Vi VOW. i'V'iLi: V:N i&klr r ill :L TriJ series oi e recusms Corrections Department Director, Gary Deland said Fred didn't always fit in. "He was a " bit of a wild card.. .a tough professional pro-fessional who liked to work on the edge. It was tribute to him that when law enforcement officers of-ficers were faced with one of the most difficult situations ever, using the top people from - various agencies, Fred was one of the first people they asked for." - - Deland also revealed that dur- ing the stand-off Fred had stayed up all night to complete his son's pinewood derby car for Cub Scouts. ' Fred's best friend, Kent Chapman, Chap-man, said he was not surprised Fred gave his life ' he was not afraid to die. He knew that if he clung to life too tenaciously he could not dislodge the duties of his job." Chapman called Fred a "maverick." Hundreds of marked law enforcement en-forcement vehicles slowly moved mov-ed with lights on in a several-mile several-mile processional to the cemetery. At the graveside the i t 41 1 , 1 1 - - , all arraigned in U.S. District Court shortly following the battle Thursday Thurs-day on prefiled federal charges related to the bombing and the seige. The adults include Vickie Singer, 44; Jonathan Swapp, 23 or 24; Heidi Singer Swapp, 23; Charlotte Singer Swapp, 19; and John Timothy Singer, 21. Three remain in the Salt Lake County Jail, (Vickie, Jonathan and Timothy) following detention hearings before federal magistrate Ronald Boyce, who declared they were safety risks to society Monday. Boyce ordered the two daughters, Heidi and Charlotte, to be placed in federal half-way homes under 24-hour custody. Murder charges in relation to the killing of House are forthcoming, but not expected this week. And although Timothy is the prime suspect, no family members except the youngest children have been eliminated from possible charges. Officials who investigated the scene following the standoff found a cache of weapons, including 13 rifles, a number of handguns and cases of ammunition. They also had enough food to last up to a year, of Tl TTTN Vol, 108, No. 52 3 Sections, 38 Pages February 4, 1988 ti mm 1 Ten Gomes to rest flag hung at half-mast and air was marked by the stunning silence of the thousands of people peo-ple gathered. As a bagpipe played "Amazing Grace" rows of officers saluted at attention and the pallbears carried the casket to its final resting place. After a 21-gun salute, Ann House placed a bouquet of flowers on her husband's coffin and law enforcement officers , left behind white gloves and car-nartions. car-nartions. House's corrections dog, Mike, sat at the graveside and wore a badge covered with the symbolic black strip of elastic, mourning his master. House leaves behind his . widow, Ann and three children Seth, Janneke and Christine. A trust fund has been established establish-ed for the family of Lt. Fred House, killed in the shoot-out Jan. 28 at the Singer compound. Contributions Con-tributions can be sent to Valley Bank & Trust Co., 3430 S. Redwood Red-wood Rd., Salt Laks City, Utah 84119. Checks should be made to the "Family of Lt. Fred House." yiinm , mitii fit 4tr irw ficials said. About 22 sticks of dynamite were found in a cardboard . box inside a car parked on the Singer homestead. Most of that dynamite and more than 40 blasting caps were later destroyed by officials at the ranch. Lawmen found a working radio and television inside the home which was hooked up to a car battery. The family also had running water. The decision for officials to take an offensive move Thursday came a day after Gov. Norm Bangerter received letters from Addam and Vickie, saying the family wouldn't obey the laws of the state or country. Said Utah Public Safety Director John T. Nielsen after the shooting, the essence of the letters was "that they didn't acknowledge or regard the government of the state or the United States as having any lawful right or jurisdiction over them. Addam Ad-dam Swapp declared them an independent in-dependent and free nation above the laws of the governmental structure of the United States of America, and said he would defend the family in any way he saw fit" if people came on their property or intruded in their EPA adds by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer Five groundwater wells are being be-ing drilled to determine whether the aquifer under Prospector Square is linked to the "Thaynes formation" in which a major Park City drinking water well is located. Two of the wells, which have already been completed, are in Park Meadows on Monitor Dr. and in the parking area of the city's recreation facility (formerly the Park Meadows Racquet Club). Three additional wells, which-will be drilled much deeper than those already in place to test groundwater ground-water quality, will be sunk in the Prospector area. The five new wells are part of an extensive data collection effort sponsored by the federal Environmental En-vironmental Protection Agency (EPA) to test the toxicity of mine tailings underlying the Prospector residential and commerical areas. They were an optional part of the original plan to test Prospector, and were drilled at EPA's request. There is quite a bit of discrepen-cy discrepen-cy among agency representatives as to why the EPA chose to drill the wells. According to Paula Schmitt-diel, Schmitt-diel, remedial project manager with EPA. zinc and cadmium showed "releases" in the first set of underground data. Although the level of each was not particularly high, there was more of the metal downgradient from Prospector than above it and that is considered con-sidered a release under EPA standards. stan-dards. The agency wanted to know if the contaminants could travel into in-to the nearby Park Meadows ac-quifer. Adults in custody after seige by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer Five adults of the Singer family are still in custody following Monday hearings in which a federal magistrate considered their danger to society if released. The hearings followed the Jan. 28 apprehension of the family members who were barricaded in their homestead for 15 days after allegedly bombing the Kamas LDS Stake Center Jan. 14. U.S. Magistrate Ronald Boyce ruled rul-ed Feb. 1 in Salt Lake City that both Vickie Singer, 44, and Jonathan Swapp, 19, "acted in complicity" with the bombing, and were "definitely a threat to the community." communi-ty." He also felt they might stage another standoff. The two will be held without bail until their trials. During the crowded hearings prosecutors pro-secutors also identified John Timothy Singer, 21, as the main suspect who killed Lt. Fred House in the gunfire that ended the seige. The others to remain in custody are Heidi and Charlotte Singer Swapp, 23 and 19, respectively, although both were tram erred out of the Salt Lake County Jail to federal half-way houses where they will be under 24-hour custody. Agents consider con-sider Charlotte less dangerous than Heidi, so the judge is allowing her to see her son who is 1 12. Heidi, however, is only able to communicate com-municate with her attorney, but will be permitted to write a letter to her - tun - tm w. ." m lives. Officials had decided that Addam Swapp would not change his convictions convic-tions that an armed conflict would result in the resurrection of slain polygamist John Singer, who was shot nine years ago after an 18-day surveillance of the Singer family farm. Swapp also seemed firmly convinced those events would lead to the collapse of a corrupt society and to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Nielsen continued, "It was decided decid-ed at that time that the FBI would try to isolate Addam Swapp" in order to arrest him and protect the rest of the family in the process. In doing so, an FBI SWAT team, including two dogs and their handlers, were sent to a nearby home before dawn Thursday. The plan was to let a specially trained attack at-tack dog on Swapp, but the dog hesitated and was spotted by Addam and Jonathan Swapp, who began firing fir-ing at the dog. Simultaneously, Lt. House the dog's handler became known to the Swapps as he instructed in-structed the dog to continue his attack. at-tack. Then a rifle shot came from the house about 60 yards away and r. UTAH Pftpor. A. pump test to study David Schaller, Schmittdiel's chief, later told the Record her assessment had been "premature." The wells were "not drilled in response to a sample finding," fin-ding," he said. "The data have been too inconclusive to say there is a release." Schaller said the decision to drill the wells was made because it was a much less expensive way than expected to test whether the aquifers were linked. Ron Ivie, the city's technical representative on the study, said the metal which tested high was neither cadmium nor zinc, but ' manganese. Although he admitted zinc did test high in a well not in the Prospector area, he said discussions discus-sions with the EPA and state Environmental En-vironmental Health department "cleared it up." In fact, he said, the zinc was leached from underground storm drains which had been galvanized. City Manager Arlene Loble added add-ed she remembered only a single sample from one of the wells located outside Park City limits which showed a release for cadmium. cad-mium. Ivie also noted that the groundwater ground-water samples were split three ways, analyzed by three separate labs and showed much variation between the splits. With all the variability, Ivie says it was tough to determine whether any metal showed a release. He was unable to divulge the actual ac-tual level of manganese found in the wells because of a three-agency three-agency agreement which prohibits releasing data until it has been summarized in a final report, but did say "in its worst form it is equal to one percent of drinking children, Boyce ruled Tuesday. He also ordered a psychological examination ex-amination of her. Timothy Singer's detention is also on hold pending state murder charges that may be forthcoming. Agents alleged Monday that Jonathan was a danger because he had fired at federal officers in the shoot-out, and had participated with Addam Swapp, 27, and Benjamin Singer, 15, in bombing the church. Addam Swapp, injured in Thursday's Thurs-day's shoot-out, will not face charges until University Hospital determines he is well enough to Gas heater Two children were discovered dead from asphyxiation Tuesday afternoon near Oakley after a neighbor found a family of four unconscious in their home. According to Summit County Sheriff's Det. Joe Offret, the ; children died after inhaling propane pro-pane gas from a malfunctioning I heater in the home. The parents i of the victims, George and DeAn-S DeAn-S na Miller, 30 and 29, respectively, : were taken by Lifeflight i helicopter to LDS hospital where i they are in critical condition. i After being found at 3:55 p.m. Feb. 2, the children, Jeremy, 4, V hit House in the right side. The bulletproof vest he was wearing did not protect him from the shot. The dog was not injured, even though shots continued to be fired at other SWAT team members from the Singer house. Addam and Jonathan also turned and fired their weapons while backing toward the house. Just as they reached the home, Addam received fire from an unidentified SWAT team member. A bullet passed through his wrist and entered his chest. Addam Swapp apparently grabbed grabb-ed a towel from inside the home to apply to his wounds, then left the house waving the bloody towel as a sign of surrender. He ran toward the SWAT team and gave himself up. Officials Of-ficials then took him by ambulance to the Wasatch County Hospital in Heber, wherefrom he was flown by helicopter to University Hospital. see STANDOFF on A2 OA -Or water standards." Speaking though a public relations rela-tions specialist with the state health dept., project manager Mohammed Slam said the new wells were being drilled only to determine if the two aquifers were linked, and there was no release which spurred the action. US Geological Survey hydrologist Jim Mason agreed initially in-itially that this was the reason for drilling the wells, but then admitted admit-ted Schmittdiel's assessment that a release had occurred "was basically right." Regardless of their perception of the reason for the five new wells, all agency officials agreed the actual ac-tual values for metals found were variable, but low under drinking water standards. The USGS is involved by providing pro-viding technical specialists in the groundwater drilling and data analysis portion of the plan. Mason said core samples taken in the summer had already shown them they would find a different kind of bedrock under Prospector than in the Park Meadows area. The shale which USGS expects to underly Prospector "is not well-sorted," well-sorted," said Mason, and so is unlikely to conduct water. The limestone where the Park Meadows drinking water well is located does conduct water very well. If the shale or other rock under Prospector is linked hydrologically to the Park Meadows Thaynes formation, con- see WATER on A2 leave. He is considered the clan leader of the SwappSinger family, and the main instigator in the bombing bomb-ing and resultant standoff. The magistrate listened to prosecutors pro-secutors who garnered much of their information regarding Vickie from her personal diary. She said John had told her the Singer compound was "the last stronghold... the tower see CUSTODY on A2 kills two and Shawn, 22 months, were taken to Holy Cross Clinic in Park City where they were pronounced dead on arrival, according to Lt. Lloyd Evans of the Park City Police Department. According to Offret, the cabin is located in, the Weber Canyon area five to six miles east of Oakley. "We have reason to believe the asphyxiations were due to a malfunction in the heating unit of the home. It didn't seem to be 'up to specs,' it was old and it looked like it was installed in-stalled by the owner," said Offret. 1 ! it i ii if |