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Show C4 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Students Sift for Belongings After Fire Witnesses in MotelSlaying Describe Photo Line-Ups * $491 was missing fromthetill. Testifying for the first time on Thursday, eyewitness Barbara Dalling said she saw Rettenberger shortly before 9 p.m. on the night of Jthe slaying. Dalling said she saw =the suspect loitering in a vending «machine area adjacentto the motel <office while she registered for a sroom. ee Minutes later, after getting her parents and two children ‘settled Sinto their rooms, Dalling was drivsing awayfrom the motel when she gsaw a car speed from the parking ziot. the passage of so muchtime, and after seeing him only briefly. Dalling had testified she “glanced” at Rettenberger several times, seeing him from “a 45degree angle.” Likewise, Dodd doubted the recollection of a second eyewitness, Michelle Kelly: Kelly testified that she saw a man sprint from the moteloffice and jumpinto car that sped away *Johnson III was released Thursday ‘from Cottonwood Hospital just two Although Kelly picked Rettenberger’s photo just three weeksafter the slaying, Dodd claimed her initial observation of the suspect wasso briefand in such poorlight thatit could notbe reliable. Both Dalling and Kelly identified -Rettenberger’s 1976 green Pontiac Bonneville‘as the car they saw speeding from the motel parking lot. better:e It is expected to be at least two weeksbefore the auditor returns to daysafter suffering whata spokes- work in his Capitol office. Physi- man said was a “mild heart vattack.” ‘Johnson, 51, was back at his ‘Midvale home, where he will be recuperating for an. indefinite ‘period. cians “want him to relax for a “Hesaid heisfeelingfine,” said school in Mount Pleasant hoped a dresser drawer was enough to protect his personal papers, including his visa. “My room is right over there where most of the damage was done,” he said, pointing to the building. “I've only been here three months and the place burns down.” As the students sorted through their belongings, the state fire marshal sifted through the charred attic of the Alice Residence Hall that caughtfire at 2 p.m. Wedneslay. Thursday, MountPleasantfire Capt: Doug Robinett said the fire was started. by a smoldering as she and herfiance drovepast at about 9 p.m. on the night of the slaying. :Auditor on Mend FromHeart Attack 3 Utah State Auditor Auston G. 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Because no fire department in Sanpete County has a laddertruck, crewshadto borrow two of Mount The Alice Residence Hall is named for Alice Craighead, a wealthy benefactor who be queathed her fortuneto the school. building was empty at the time of On the groundfloor ofthe building the fire and there were no injuries. whichis trimmed in dark oak, are Robinett was pleased with the rooms for “dorm parents” and a response to the fire, which he and common area with a grand piano otherfirefighters described as the projected undera tarp on Thursbiggest blaze they recallinthis~ day.Astaircase covered with thick community in the past20 years. carpet leads upstairs to the stu“We lost the roof and theattic dents’ rooms, which are just large but therest of building is structur- enough for a small bed a dresser ally sound,’ said Robinett. and a computer. Officials say the fire may have Since the fire, school officials started in the northeast corner of have been busy trying to protect the attic where empty boxes and the privacy of the school’s 163 Pleasant’s city trucks equipped with cherry pickers to mount a high attack on‘ the blaze. The a alae) =]—/—ae while,” said Fandl. : tant to Johnson. “Heis doing a lot After arriving at the fire, Robinett called in units from Fairview, Spring City and Ephraim, bolstering the firefighting force to seven now attend Wasatch Academy where they can receive more personal attention. Class sizes average just 12 students and 98 percent of the academy’s graduates go on to a university. Mount Pleasant resident Cliff Mott, who does painting for the school, said he likes the school and its international variety of students. “They [students] have different ideas fromus locals,” said Mott. 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The fire was reported by the mayor who saw the smoke a half block away from City Hall. rooms Thursday to retrieve per- sonal items that consisted mainly of clothes, snowboards andskis. Damage to the: second floor, where rooms for about 30 11thgrade boys are located, was limited to that caused by water and smoke. The most costly damage appeared to be to personal computers, which one student described as “all wet and probably ruined. Students who were residing in the building will bunk with students in other dormitories until the building gets a new roof. School ey rebuilding will start eT and photographic arrays should be allowed to testify on Rettenberg- an informant that Rettenberger hadtold someonethat“a lady” had seen him in the motel lobby the nightof the homicide. But University of Utah psychology professor David Doddtestified MOUNT PLEASANT — Stu." dents displaced by fire that destroyéd the roofof a residence hall at Wasatch Academy were escorted back to their tional. He said students don’t norly have access to the attic and the room was locked whenfire- ONDEVNAC 7 ing trial. Prosecutor William McGuire countered it is up to a jury to weigh the witnesses’ credibility. . The hearing continues today as _ attorneys battle over whether‘ex, perts in eyewitness identification this May after receiving a tip from extra beds were stored. cigarette butt and was uninten- RL witness”testimony unreliable and ban it from Rettenberger’s upcom- Yet Dalling’s identification of Rettenberger is under attack by the defense, partly because it comes 314 years after the slaying. _ Woods Cross Detective Bruce Timothysaid he contacted Dalling Pozen selected accused Motel 6 killer Todd Rettenberger from police photo line-ups. But defense attorney Todd Utz« inger is asking 2nd District Judge Jon Memmott to declare the “eye- bypolice. BY LAYNE MILLER SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE FILSON testified Thursday about how they saw the Utah Supreme Court throw out Rettenberger’s murder confession because it was coerced CORTLAND LAKE FARMINGTON — Two witmesses — one of them discovered -by police only five months ago — Cigarette butt may have started blaze that gutted Wasatch Academy dorm attic Dalling is a boon to the belea- guered prosecution, wholast year err BY STEPHEN HUNT Friday, December1, 2000 |
