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Show THE BUZZ CAPTURE PLAYOFF SERIES / B-1 CheSalt LakeTribune VOLUME 250 NUMBER 149 148 South Main Street (801)237-2045 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 Copyright 1995 SUNDAYseptember 10, 1995 TODAY’S READERSHIP:429,300 Trail of Missionary Killer Went Cold By Vern Anderson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Frank McCullough had no idea Robert Elmer Kleasen was a paranoid schizophrenic with a violent past, but he knew something had to be done about the most troublesome member of his Mormon congregation. The man was making false accusations andthreats, and now had written McCullough, telling him to come to Kleasen’s camper-trailer outside Austin, Texas, withouttelling anyone. “I’m not the smartest person in the world,but I’ve never been the dumbest person in the world, either,” said McCullough, a University of Texas professor who was bishop of the church's Austin ist Ward back in 1974. McCullough didn’t go, and warned a pair of young missionaries against ‘The two had beeninvited to a venison supper at Kleasen’strailer. “T've prayed about this and I know you shouldn’t go,” McCullough told them. They assured the bishop it would betheir last visit. They felt obligated because they already had canceled once. Gary Darley, 20, and Mark Fischer, 19, never were found. But there were macabre traces in and around Kleasen’s trailer. Such as Fischer’s missionary name tag with a bullet hole through it. The missionaries’ bloodspattered watches inside the trailer. And bits of human blood, hair and muscle tissue on a band sawatthetaxi- Irate Russian Lawmakers Show Discontent Over Bosnia Events COMBINED NEWS SERVICES MOSCOW — Angered by Russia’s inability to prevent NATO airstrikes on Bosnian Serbs, lawmakers voted Satur- day to demandthefiring of their foreign minister and to sever ties to the Western alliance. The State Duma, the lower house of parliament, demanded by a 258-2 vote Twenty years after Kleasen was convieted of Fischer's murder and sentenced to die, Austin attorney Ken that Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev he fired for the “utter helplessness” of Russian diplomacyin the Balkans. In the nonbinding vote, it also urged President Boris Yeltsin’s government to @ See AUTHOR,Page A-8 suspend participation in NATO’s Partnership for Peace program to protest the dermy shop where Kleasen worked. keeping an appointment with Kleasen. airstrikes on Russia's traditionalallies. INSIDE Venting nationalist sentiments in a special session called by opposition members, lawmakerscalled for Yeltsin to sign legislation they passed last month to unilaterally lift sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia. “Tt has becomequite clear that Russia, over the past few years of numerous and crude mistakes and miscaleulations, has lost the leverage to influence parties to the Bosnianconflict and reducedits role to that of an idle onlooker,” the deputies said in a statement approved separately. “Russia's opinion is ignored by Western countries openly and flagrantly,” they said. The resolution carries no force of law. But with parliamentary elections just three months away,it signifies a political consensusYeltsin can’t afford to ignore. But it is unlikely he would sack Kozyrev in response to an advisory vote by a lame-duck parliament. He has yet to act on the Duma’s recommendation to lift sanctions, and analysts predict he will not signit. Yet Yeltsin already has threatened to cut ties with the Partnership for Peaceif the NATO attacks continue. On Friday night, Russia reiterated a formal demand to the U.N. Security Council that the airstrikes cease. NATOjets continued their attacks Sat@ See RUSSIA,Page A-13 Utah Blood Improperly Screened 200 Units Since ’87 Are Suspect for HIV By Norma Wagner THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Two-hundred units of blood used by Utahhospitals fortransfusions and other medical procedures during the past eight years were not tested properly for the virus that causes AIDS. The units were shipped statewide from the LDS Hospital Blood Bank in Salt Lake City, Utah’s largest blood supplier. Discoveredin late Juiy during aroutine federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review, the violations resulted in the Friday suspension of the blood bank'sinterstate license. The blood bank, owned and operated by Intermountain Health Care, is combing through records to locate patients who received the suspect blood and those who may have donatedit. Blood-bank officials do not believe any of the suspect units contained the human imrounodeficiency virus (HIV), but they The 10th Buraing Man Festival in the Nevada desert was the hot place to be for the Labor Day weekend. Attitude: Page J-8 WEATHER Moresunshine than cloudiness. have set up a toll-free, 24-hour hot line (800-262-5374) to answer questions and are offering free AIDStests to those whoreceived blood products between 1987 and Augustof this year. “This is a serious issue, and we are doing everything possible to be as responsiveto public concerns as we can,” LDS Hospital spokesman Jess Gomezsaid Sat- ete eeae urday. UTAH Whittier Elementary teachers tackle manypatients could be affected kids’ problems a dayat a time. aggt ee Page C-1 SUNDAY The Sait Lake YWCA honors Utah women who make a difference. Seaeee THE ARTS Ballet West plans ‘‘Peter Pan,” while Pioneer Theatre grows “Secret Garden.” Page E-1 Ann Landers... +2 Movies... E40 Barber/Bell...BS NewsofWeid. D5 SookReviewsE5 Business Fl Classified AdsG8 Editorials _DJack G £2 tes aoe People of Color A-2 Personal Ads Purtles Real Estate totes... C4 StarGameG17 Medis Column F2 Travel rs Contestants for Miss Utah State Fair playfully hamit up at the state Capitol. From left: Sally Cooper, Miss Garfield County; Nicole Jensen, Miss Utah County; Jenner Feroah, Miss Salt Lake County; and Angie Kofford, Miss Davis County. It’s Grueling, Nerve-Racking and (for Some) Degrading, But for Many, Going Head to Head With Other Beauties Is .. . The Time of Their Lives It is difficult to determine how because as many as five products are extracted from donated blood, including plasma (the liquid part of blood with all solids removed) and platelets (small disks céntaining blood-clotting hemoglobin). Said Dick Melton, acting director of the Utah Department of Health:“It’s a pretty big deal. We have to determine those people who received the questionable blood and work with i and assist them their to counselandtest them. But we believe the risk is fairly sinail. Morethan we'd like — but fairly small.” Industry observers say Utah is known nationwide as having a clean blood supply. Nationally, the chancesof receiving an HIV fe through o donated bloodis 1 in 100,000. In Utah, the rate is 1 in every 200,000 cases. ByLili Wright THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A haif-hour before her interview, Jodi Erickson, aka Miss Beaver County, dissolves into a puddleofself-doubt that no amount of makeup can mask First her nail broke. Then her hotel key feli behind the bureau. Now the 18-yearold is convinced thefive judgesof the Miss Utah State Fair Pageant will ask her some tricky current-events question and discover sheis a hick. “Tam going to go in saying ‘ain't’ and all those Beaver County words,” says the beautiful wisp of a woman, her blond hair stiff with spray. “I tried to read the newspaper,butit's just so boring.” In less than 24 hours, Erickson and her Amie Gee, Miss Emery County, have turned their Comfort Inn room into a landfill of lotion, hair spray, makeup compacts, clothes, high heeis and half-eaten food. Now Geetries to console her newbest friend. “Everything they ask, no matter what, make it into something positive,” she counsels. “They like positivity. I have beentrying to doit, and it’s been working ood.” But Erickson feels like the small-town giri she is, overwhelmed by competing with sophisticated county queens from Salt Lake, Davis and Utah. And whatif the judges ask about Bosnia? “We don’t know nothing,” she wails flopping down on the flowered comforter. “Anything,” corrects Gee. Utah is pageant country. Throughout the year, hundreds of womendontheirfinest sequins in the hopes of being named pageant queen. There is Miss Utah Dairy Princess, Miss Color Country, Miss Panorama Land. Only Texas rivals Utah in the numberoflocal contests that feed into the Miss America pageant male tradition has become the focus of statewide debate. Outraged by the public parade of women in bathing suits, Salt Lake County Commissioner Mary Calla- ghan has threatened to pull the county's $35,000 funding of the countyfair unless its pageant abandons its swimsuit competition, or finds private funding. The commissioner wants to recognize youths for communityservice, academics, musical or athletic skill, but not ‘a person’s body proportions, whichare primarily genetically determined.” Past and current queens passionately defend the contests. More than mastering 4-inch heels, womenlearn practical skills in the pageants — from interviewing to public speaking to community service. Winners can earn thousands of dollars in scholarship money and make newfriends And for many Utahns, especially those from small towns, being a local pageant But in the past month, the longtime fe- & See QUEENS,Page A-13 & See BLOOD, Page A-4 Who Would Snatch a Sleeping Child in Utah? FBI Trying to Find Out By Joshua B. Good THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE What kind of person would craw! through the bedroom window of a sleeping 6-yearold girl, carry her out, sexually assauit her and then throw her into a river, leaving her to drown? Was Rosie Tapia's killer a neighbor? A drifter? Or perhaps a family member? FBI agents at the bureau's behavioral-science section in Quantico, Va., are working le create a psychological profile of the person who killed the Salt Lake City girl on Aug. 13. “{ want to know ifit’s a man who hates his mother beceuse she best him,” Salt Lake City police Det. Mickey Pah! said, rattling off questions about the person who ‘took RoA sie from her Glendale neighborhood.‘‘Is ita man or a woman?Isit a man who wants to be a woman?” The FBIteam, led by Special Agent Ken Lanning, will examine pictures of the dead girl, study autopsy reports, crime scene photos, details about the victim's personality, her family, neighborhood and school. Agents want to know which adults had contact with her the last day of her life. And they will pore over reports concerning burglars and child molesters recently paroled in Utah. Child abductions by strangers are rare — about 1 percent of the estimated 400,000 kidnappings a year. And a kidnapper going through a child's bedroom window is even more uricommon. Deleteshit eeSenet, a estas siecle “We've got ourselves a real nut out there,” said Pahl. Steve Kramer,a clinical psychologist who evaluates sex offenders for the Utah State Prison, said the killer is a “very impulsive person, one who does the first thing that comesinto his head without thinking of the consequences.” Most pedophiles are smooth operators who control their environment to gain access to children, Kramer said. He may marry a single motherto get ai her kids or befriend children at a playground. Rosie’s killer is different, Kramer said. “He can't eveninitiate a conversation. It’s probably a withdrawn, loner-type person . this is a real cowardly act.” Peter Smerick, @ retired FBI agent expe- rienced in suspectprofiling,said the agenis work will not “give you the name and address of the offender.” Still, Pahi will take any help he can get. Fifteen Salt Lake City detectives have tracked every clue, every lead, every crank call and have come to nothing but dead- ends. Theleads include anelusive truck with a Mountain Fuei logo thal residents spotted in the Hartland Apartraents complex, 1616 W. Snow Queen Place (1675 South), where Rosie lived. Mountain Fuel records indicate no employee visited the complex in the days prior to Rosie's death, and the truck was old, leading detectives to believe it may Rosie Tapis was kidnapped from her S.L bedroom. sanassnliliaelinesstalianiae @ See KIDNAP,Page A-10 . |
