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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune INTERMOUNTAIN Friday, February21 19!997 Police Seek Autopsy on services coordinator. He said that while somereporters checked the report first, the false report still got out to some “Wehad a bunchof people who Other Ramsey were worried about flooding last Daughter SOCIATED PRESS BOULDER, Colo. — The 1992 death of John Ramsey’s oldest daughter in a car crash has becomepart of the investigative record in the slaying of 6-year-old uncovered an escape tunnel and plansfor a possible riot. Inside the prison, when the gangs start getting together, of Wednesdaythat they were tempo- penitentiary officials said they night,” Zabrocki said. “We got an course they have a commongoal In this case, it was to create an incidentin order for other people to eseape,” said Tim LeMaster. warden of the Penitentiary of nel, state officials notified U.S rarily suspending a court-super- vised consent decree, which gov erns living conditions in New New Mexico to Move Hundredsof Inmates THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and what they described as a potentially dangeroussituation because of overcrowdingat the pris- next five days, and prisoners penitentiary was thesite of a riot prisons for the Corrections De- cree governing NewMexico pris- on conditions and prepared Thursday to move several hun- on south of Santa Fe. The in 1980 in which morethan 30inmateswerekilled. Salt Laker Rewarded For uae Poacher Mexico prisons. Theaction will allow the state to move 256prisoners to the Cen tral Arizona Correctional Facility nouncedthe discoveryof a tunnel Alg 35 feet long, 3 feet high and 3feet wide — in the basement of the main prison near a laundry District Judge John Conway on NewMexico At a news conference, LeMaster and other prison officials an- Johnson suspended a federal de- man said Thursday Spokesman Kelvin McNeill, however, would not provide reporters with information on why investigatorsare interested in the autopsyreport on Elizabeth Ramsey, John Ramsey’s daughter from a previous marriage. Alarmedbya risein inmatevio lenceandthe discovery of the tun apologyfrom the weather service. but that doesn’t do anything for the people who were scared. SANTAFE, N.M. — Gov. Gary JonBenet Ramsey, a city spokes- dred inmates to Arizona after in Florence, Ariz. The filing with Conway said transfers would begin within the — ASalt taxidermist has re 00 reward for turn ing in the poacher whokilled a well-known elk in Yellowstone would remain in Arizona for up to John Shanks, director of adult Finley said most of the moneyis partment, told reporters that authorities found a tunnel — 30 to was convicted of killing the elk near Norris Junctionin mid-Sep. tember 1 He ha d out the animal's skullcap and antlers and left the carcass on the bank of the Gibbon River,” Finley said YEU Ls OWSTONE National Park more than three yearsago. a year bull known as Charger ChadBeus, 24, of Lake City Park Superintendent Michael from the $10,000 in restitution the poacher was ordered to pay for taking the eight-by-six-point Norman Joe Shafer contacted investigators after Beus brought theelk’s antlers to Shafer to have them mounted. Finley said Shafer recognized the antlers from a magazinearticle. Beus was convicted of misdemeanor poaching and felony wit- ness tampering in U.S. District Courttwo years ago. He was fined $20,000in addition to the $10,000 in restitution. McNeill offered little new information in the investigation into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the 1995 Little Miss Colorado whosebodywasfound in the fam- ily’s homehereDec. 26 An autopsyreport indicates she was strangled, beaten and possibly sexually assaulted. McNeill said police still have not interviewed John and Patsy Ramsey and fs no formalinterviews have On Wednesday prosecutors filed a motion asking that search warrants on the Ramsey’s home remain sealed. The prosecutors want the warrants sealed because they said the Ramseys have not been eliminated as suspects in their daughter's murder. It was the first public documentin which an official connected with the ease has included the Ramseys among the suspects. Boulder policealso have asked the Cook County medical examin- aS er’s office in Chicago to seal the MurdockTravel autopsy report and death certificate of John Ramsey’s daughter from his first marriage, a spokes- CarlsonWagonlit <2 Trip courtesy of Murdock Travel, man in the medical examiner's of- featuring five-night Hawaii packages for $583.00. Call 267-5700 for details. fice confirmed Thursday. “They just told us not to release anyinformation,” the spokesman said. Elizabeth Ramsey, 22, one of This winter, get away with Sprint PCS. (And take a permanent vacation from cellular.) John Ramsey's two daughters with his first wife, died in a car accident in Downers Grove near Chieago onJan. 8, 1992. Her boy- friend, Matthew Derrington, the driver, also died. McNeill said police have not named any suspects in JonBenet’s murder, nor have they ruled anyoneout. 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Peoplein the immediate vicin- ity of the ice jam and along the levee should be prepared to move to higher ground at anynotice, the weatherservice said The weather bureausaidtheice jam could break the dike, flooding area homes with as much as 4 Salt Lake City Sprint PCS Center 6550 South State Street feet of water. Forecasterssaythat (801) 293-1900 would require evacuation of about 3,500 people Police Lt. Mark Hildebrand said that was “a worst-case scenario,” but agreed that “quite a few people” would beaffectedif thedike broke. We havea planin place if we needit, butat this point we're not activating anything,” he said. Our police officers are just watching it doing half-hour checks. Miles Citypoliceandfire offi- cials and the Custer County sher- iff have worked out a procedure for notification and evacuation. 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