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Show 123199 Exp: UTAH PRESS 307 W SALT UPA ASSOCIATION - 200 S LAKE SUITE CITY UT r- - 5005 vsri & 84101 A y r" Girls State candidates Page 8 AV Young Ambassadors Page 17 VOLUME 67 NUMBER 6 . 500 w f J A-- l M N X U w 7 4 s, t i v tea school excited , dergarten, and" w&a attending, ,carae home A, childs death steals a piece rummer school; He was to begin - Jx show his mom the hew 'all of a parents heart ...knowing it 1st grade in the fall t&ace liked about me poster that he had wk$ at the hands of a tinted NmhandoGrodailla, sharks and made. Eimferiy saidlince ate rUatn c, leaves eoiotiohcd dev-- dinhsanrk His best' friend was supper, went out to play, and ert&tlor. in its wake," l Jo Jo, and he wasnt eraiy about disappeared from her life tor-- : - ' Alex With 48 year-olthe darkl..because he was afraid ever..-- , v Kmiberly and Will Guevarra ' Bybees March 30 guilty plea of coyotes, t f His cousin Alex Bybee lived in : looked for Lance fcr some time to murdering hiskix year-ol-d cousin the the troilrr next docrvmd Lance Ffort Becoming donned. TT jit :t t! rxhi that he had fallen closing chapters pt th horrer " which fecnebt: rtory aJv.p rereewhere, raid Kim LcrfyGusyor?& pChrciybcdy y trs agofor the ; - an.. 'tmFdhirs ersfriondb or relawer Fir 3' ily, rt ir - r- -t cl f ::t I I: cc.n5 worried tive t Mlv By Dixie Brunner t WEDNESDAY APRIL 1, 1908 COLOR COUNTRYS HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER t '! ybee pleads cosidaHionaD oulBt 4 d, Lance-Quevn- 17 rr tv, f 4 1 . it K ByF rtep if Ht?" A t - yV f S C Jt X v. g , vWP'vf. f . ? )h ' f i ,;c s t xr JH' s 3 m. 4 V A p ir- - r p- - : SeV tlm hih7 Jk; through his t occur to me that , ir iffS ,fnf -- var-J-- Lcnc Cu that they were prclVJy t:ar ingup Mother Kimberly Gueyarra desmbfh kef youngest' son Lance as a Happy" child who constantly. As the- J Cr3C.4iih H.ff before $!3 dfctplKUrca. - - would go over and play Nintendo with him. Kimberly Guevarra-said that Lance did that occa- sioxially since Alex hadht at- - kida his own age, he was spoiled. - ' ' At the time of his Lance was happy th? last day' disappearance Lance had completed kin- - of his life said his mother. He tention to Lances disappearance 13, 1996 Lance Guevarra in hopes of drawing some leads. of Big Water disappears be- An abduction is suspected. tween 8:00-8:3- 0 p.m. He was last seen walking home from September and October, 1996 Continued searches and rehis next door neighbors house. y Huge search commences, questioning of witnesses. Aucommunity residents, thorities frustrated with very few and local and federal law en- leads. forcement agencies, including search dogs and civil air patrol. November 13, 1996 KC Chief Deputy Allen and Kanab City Officer Johnson August 22,1996 DeThe Kane County Sheriffs Jared Hammon manned phone lines in a California studio, after Marshals Water partment, Big ata segment of Unsolved Mysteroffice, FBI and UDI, have tempted to draw national at ies featured the story ofthe miss Six year-ol- d involv-ingman- 16 decision to allow Bybees con- fession. That petition for inter- r Kim-talke- The chronology of a crime August guilt to First Degree Murder in the strangulation death of six Lance Guevarra of Big year-ol- d Water. The plea, entered on March 30 in Judge K.L. Mclffs Sixth District Court, came on the day Bybees murder trial was scheduled to begin. Bybee, 18, had been charged in Guevarras August 13, 1996 death. Bybee later confessed to the killing to Kane County, 'Sheriffs Deputy Allen Johnson from a Las Vegas mental health facility after a suicide attempt. Bybee told Johnson during the emotional confession that his cousin Lance Guevarra had come over to borrow a video game. He investigation resulting from those statements. Mclff denied the suppression request. Myers and Holmes filed an appeal with the Utah Supreme Court concerning Judge Mclffs January locutory appeal was also denied. Bybees conditional guilty plea reserves the right to appeal .4 ht gAT Vm the Supreme Courts ruling on '7 friends' end relatives the confession, as well as requests a presentence investigation. Im happy to have this portion 1 VS J'iBsrT: behind us, said Kane County - - 4 4 f'j Attorney Colin Winchester. I only wish that this will bring peace to the affected parties. Sentencing will be on May 15 . Lance that he at 1:30 in the Sixth District ot said he told he h, returned an- Court. until couldnt ..3 h: .?en' borrowed. one had he other AVk ..briefly from the Bybee told Johnson that he inKht: 44WV J;4 e he was play tercepted the boy at the side of f Bybee respended that the trailer, and after a confronhe had not. Lance around Hours turned into days., .days tation, dragged of back a nearby sandhill. into months, with few leads aa the He had a hard time telling me d to Lances disappearance. . how he killed Lance, testified (.7 4, believed Guevarra her berly Deputy Johnson at the July 17, It' 1997 preliminary hearing. When ii r I asked him whether he used a lilt g t tured Lance had been harmed weapon or what, he raised his nt hands, and said I used these'. See LANCE, Page 3 After the confession, Alex Bybee was flown by helicopter to Big Water, and indicated to authorities the vicinity in which he had buried Lance. Human hair Alex Bybee at age 16 ing Lance Guevarra. All leads samples and bone fragments were investigated and turned were recovered at the scene, along with shorts nearby believed to KANAB WEATHER up nothing. have been those worn by Lance March he on the 1997 disappeared. day January, Defense attorneys Karlin Psychics contact the Sheriffs viwith Myers and Floyd Holmes argued purported department sions about Alex whereabouts. that Alex Bybees requests to Information investigated to no have his father present during avail. questioningand subsequent confession, constituted a request for counsel. The defense asserted d former AlexBybee, 17year-olnext door neighbor and cousin of that the juvenile Bybee had been Lance, attempts suicide in Las denied a fundamental right. They requested that Judge MclfF Vegas. suppress Alex confession from . . court See CRIME, Page 5 proceedings, as well as any v L By Dixie Brunner Alex Bybee pled conditional .5 sii |