By The
Associated Press
• Edited by Michelle Garner
Girl snatched from bicycle is found slain
ARLINGTON, Texas—Less than
a week after Amber Hagerman was
dragged screaming off her bicycle in
the middle of the afternoon by a man
in a pickup, her nude body was found
floating face-down in a creek, her
throat cut.
The gruesome discovery Thursday
hit hard in the neighborhood where
the 9-year-old Girl Scout was kid
napped Saturday.
Balloons and ribbons hanging from
homes and cars in Amber’s favorite
color, pink, blew in a cold, stiff wind.
“It ’ s j ust so overwhelming to think
that somebody could do something
like that to a small child,” said Archie
Price, 71, who lives down the street
from the home of Amber’s grandpar
ents, where the girl had been playing
before her disappearance. “I hope
whoever has done it is caught quickly.”
The body was found late Wednes
day by a man walking his dog outside
an apartment complex about eight
miles from the middle-class neighbor
hood where a witness saw a man drag
Amber as she fought and screamed.
“All I could tell was a naked body,
face-down, with the head in the water
and the head had black hair,” said
Jerry Wurst, 33, a resident of Forest
Ridge Apartments who called police
to the body after hearing shouts.
Investigators believe the body was
dumped upstream and washed north
as strong thunderstorms swelled the
creek.
“We are all a little numb,” police
spokesman Dee Anderson said. “We
certainly didn’t want this outcome.
I’m not going to say we are shocked or
amazed, but we are really disap
pointed.”
The body was identified by way of
a fingerprint card that her parents had
filled out in the event of such a trag
edy, said family friend Coy Carlton.
The case was ruled a homicide. A
preliminary autopsy indicated Amber
died of cuts to the neck, said J.R.
Helm, investigator with the Tarrant
County Medical Examiner’s Office.
In the search for the girl’s kidnap
per, police got help from up to 30
federal agents, and prison officials
scoured records for recently released
child-sex offenders.
Police also plan to talk to a witness
who reported seeing a man drive slowly
through the neighborhood in a black
truck the day Amber disappeared, and
several clues were found near the
creek, Anderson said.
Amber’s mother, Donna Whitson,
and her children took part in a Dallas
TV station’s documentary about
people who are trying to get off wel
fare.
Nann Goplerud, WFAA executive
producer of special projects, said there
was no reason to believe there was a
connection between the abduction and
the documentary.
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KEMSI-YURT, Russia — Boris
Yeltsin declared abitter victory Thurs
day over Chechen rebels: They were
wiped out by Russian troops and most
of their hostages survived an assault
that turned a tiny village into a waste
land of cinders and corpses sprawled
in snowy ditches.
His account, which attempted to
put a humi Hating and political ly cost ly
episode in the best possible light,could
not be independently confirmed. Other
government and military officials said
fewer hostages lived through the bar
rage and some rebels survived.
Photographers allowed into
Tervomayskaya after the four-day as
sault found bloodied bodies lying in
makeshift bunkers alongside rows of
rifles and stacks of ammunition boxes.
Those images may bolster Yeltsin’s
image for taking a tough line against
well-armed rebels—or they may in
crease the perception that the country
is on the brink of chaos and the
Chechen war is a mistake.
There was no immediate reaction
from rebel forces to Yeltsin’s remarks
and it was not clear if they had reached
rebel sympathizers who were holding
a Turkish ferry hostage and threaten
ing to kill the Russians aboard.
Trying to explain why a huge Rus
sian force took so long to defeat a
band of no more than 250 rebels,
Yeltsin claimed the village masked a
giant underground rebel base with
concrete gun emplacements. The claim
about Pervomay skaya, a remote ham
let of simple brick houses, seemed
highly unlikely.
Chechen separatists humiliated
Russia last week when they slipped
past the border into the neighboring
Russian republic of Dagestan, seizing
hostages to press their demand that
•Mpscoy. pull its troops out of
Chechnya.
A hostage who escaped on Thurs
day told the ITAR-Tass news agency
that he had been forced to bury killed
rebels. “There were a lot of them,” Ali
Aliyev said.
Another, Niyamuddin Amrakhov,
said hostages were also forced to dig
trenches, carry ammunition and act as
human shields for their Chechen kid^
nappers during the Russian assault.
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High-tech hockey puck makes debut
BOSTON—The bigproblem with watching hockey on TV—trying
to see that little puck — is about to be solved by James Bond-style
technology: a computer chip embedded in the disc to help it stand out on
the screen like a neon light.
The Nat ional Hockey League and the Fox network unveiled the high
tech puck Thursday.
On television, the SuperPuck appears with a fidgety, animated halo
that follows it around like a little brother. When a player lets loose with
a slapshot, the puck is trailed by an electronic comet tail that streaks red
across the screen.
FoxTrax, as the puck-tracking system is known, will make its debut
in Saturday’s All-Star Game at Boston’s FleetCenter.
Reagan to miss 85th birthday party
Alzheimer’s disease, will not attend a major celebration for hL 85th
birthday.
“He does not make public appearances any longer,” said spokes
woman Lynda Schuler, adding that he was “doing very well.”
Former first lady Nancy Reagan will be on hand, however.
The celebration on Feb. 6 will take place in the building that once
housed the famed Chasen’s restaurant, which will reopen for the occa
sion. Among those expected to participate: former President Ford and
Colin Powell.
Reagan announced his diagnosis in November 1994 in an emotional,
handwritten letter. It was then, Schuler said, that Reagan decided not to
make any more public appearances.
Callers back Judge who gave wrist slap
STANTON, Mich.—Phone messages, most of them positive, piled
up for a judge who literally slapped a man on the wrist for spousal abuse,
a court administrator said Thursday.
After Marshall, 38, was convicted Jan. 4 of misdemeanor abuse for
shoving his wife, Crystal, against the wall, District Court Judge Joel
Gehrke suspended all fines and instead slapped Marshall’s wrist with
three fingers, saying, “Don’t do that.”
The altercation between the Marshalls stemmed from an affair that
Mrs. Marshall had with her husband’s brother that resulted in a preg
nancy.
“If you touch, it’s battery,” said LeeAnn Ehlert of Crystal, a member
of the jury. “We had to say guilty but we felt he was set up.”
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