Girl won’t reveal murderer
Teen charged, jailed on $250,000 bond
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
A girl charged Wednesday with in
terfering with a police investigation
was the third teenager taken into cus
tody for questioning in last year’s kill
ing of Michael Schmader, a deputy
county attorney said.
Michelle Hymer, 17, was charged
with being an accessory to a felony
and tampering with witnesses
Wednesday in Lancaster County
Court, Deputy Attorney John Colburn
said. Hymer is being held on $250,000
bond.
Police first questioned Hymer
Monday, according to a court affida
vit. She told police she knew who the
murderer was but would not tell be
cause she was not a snitch.
She then told police she had in
structed “the others” not to say any
thing, according to the affidavit.
Hymer was arrested Tuesday after
police asked her if she had changed
her mind about talking to them. She
declined.
Schmader’s body was found Dec.
23 buried near a creek bed close to
South 48th Street and Normal Boule
vard. Two boys digging a fort under a
bridge there discovered the body,
which had been beaten and stabbed.
Schmader, who was 17, had been
missing since Oct. 18.
Two other teens were taken into
custody last week for questioning,
Colburn said.
Shannon Lee, 19, was charged with
being an accessory to a felony and
Jesse Bullington, 18, was charged with
theft by receiving stolen property.
The charge against Lee mentions a
connection to a murder investigation.
An affidavit supplied by Lincoln po
lice was used to prove probable cause,
so Lee could be held until he was
charged. The affidavit was ordered
sealed by Lancaster County District
Court Judge Jack Linder.
The theft charge against
Bullington, which was unrelated to the
murder case, involved an auto theft
from Park Place in late December.
Colburn refused to elaborate on
possible suspects in the case but said
police were still questioning people.
Therapists offer free massages
By Erin Schulte
Staff Reporter
Feeling a bit tense? This week,
some free relief may be in sight.
In an effort to draw attention to its
expanded massage services, the Cam
pus Recreation Center will offer UNL
students and faculty free massages in
the Nebraska Union this week, said
Brian Herbin, assistant director for
injury prevention and care.
“After people come in once, they’re
gonna be hooked,” he said.
Competitive prices and excellent
services gave the Rec Center, with its
new expanded schedule, an edge,
Herbin said.
Massages cost $ 15 for 25 minutes
or $25 for 45 minutes, compared to
an average of $35 for 30 minutes at
other Lincoln therapists, he said.
Response was tremendous to the
massages offered on a trial basis in
October, Herbin said. Although they
were only offered two hours a day,
many people rearranged their sched
ules to get a massage.
“Afterpeople come in
once, they're gonna be
hooked."
BRIAN HERBIN
Campus Recreation
The Rec Center now offers the ser
vice 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday, and 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Monday through Thursday.
Joel Richardson, the center’s mas
sage therapist, is a graduate student in
exercise science and a licensed mas
sage therapist. He received an
associate’s degree in massage therapy
from Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Richardson has given sports mas
sages for the track, swimming and div
ing teams, but he said he hoped ath
letes would not be the only ones to use
his services.
He said massages could correct
physical problems and enhance ath
letic performance.
Herbin said privacy was an impor
tant issue to people who get massages.
Some therapists ask customers to dis
robe and cover themselves with a
towel. But Richardson said making
sure the customer was comfortable
was more important.
If Richardson’s appointment
schedule becomes full, Herbin said,
the center would like to hire a female
therapist so customers could choose a
therapist of their own gender.
The recreation center has set aside
a private room with a compact disc
player.
“We’ll have a different ambiance
than what other places have to offer,”
Richardson said.
Although it may not have the at
mosphere of more luxurious offices,
Herbin said, privacy, quiet surround
ings and getting one’s money’s worth
are more important.
“You can’t touch our prices or the
quality of our massage therapist,”
Herbin said.
ASUN to help City Mission
By Kasey Kerber
Staff Reporter
ASUN, at its Wednesday night
meeting, discussed a fund-raising
project for the city mission and also
recent budget recommendations.
The 25-minute meeting was
short, in anticipation of a longer
meeting next week with Kim Todd,
campus landscape architect. Todd
will update the Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska
on the progress of the Nebraska
Union expansion that will displace
Broyhill fountain.
At Wednesday’s meeting, Cam
pus Life Chairman Jason Bynum
proposed a fund-raising effort for
the Peoples City Mission.
The proposal asks that senators
sell personal message ads for a dol
lar. The ads would appear as part
of an 1 l-by-17 inch, double-sided
“message flyer” to be sent to the
purchaser and the person to whom
the message was intended.
Bynum stressed that if each
senator sold seven ads, almost $375
could be raised.
Also covered at the meeting was
the recent Committee for Fees
Allocation’s proposals for ASUN
and the Daily Nebraskan.
“I attended a three-hour meeting
last night,” CFA chairman Malcolm
Kass said. “You could say that this
took a lot of time to finally finish.”
The recommendations would
increase ASUN’s$ 160,805 share of
student fees by 5.14 percent. The
Daily Nebraskan’s $41,153 allot
ment would increase by 10 percent.
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