A2 THE COURIER-JOURNAL PEOPLE NATION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1995 esire ior a COMPILED FROM WIRE DISPATCHES From Associated Press and Washington Post Dispatches ADDISON, 111. Jacqueline Williams told friends she was going to have a baby even though she wasn't pregnant. It was that desire for a baby, police say, that led Williams, her boyfriend and another man to murder a pregnant woman Thursday night, cut open her belly and pluck out a healthy boy who was due to be born yesterday. Two of the woman's three children also were killed. The bodies were found by the woman's current boyfriend, James Edwards, who was also being held by police on warrants unrelated to this case.
"This is unimaginable," said Joe Birkett, chief of criminal prosecution for the DuPage County state's attorney. "You could not give a horror writer a better script." A judge yesterday ordered the three held without bond on charges of murder and aggravated kidnapping. They could face the death penalty if convicted. "I'd just like to know why I'm being charged," a disheveled Williams, 28, said as she appeared in court. Her boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, 22, and Le-vern Ward, 24, also were held in the DuPage County Jail.
They are accused of fatally stabbing Deborah Evans, 28, and, killing her daughter Samantha, 10, and son Joshua, 8. Another son, 17-month-old Jordan, was found unharmed early Friday in the bloody apartment; authorities say Ward is his father. Birkett said prosecutors have received unconfirmed reports that Ward may also be the father of the baby. He said this would be determined by genetic testing. The baby, named Elijah, was said to be doing well at a hospital.
After Evans invited the three into her apartment in Addison, a suburb of Chicago, Thursday night, authorities say, Caffey shot her, then joined Ward in stabbing her before the two men went to a bedroom and fatally stabbed Samantha. Then Caffey cut open Evans' body, and Williams extracted and resuscitated the baby. Relatives said she has some training in nursing. Prosecutors said Williams, the mother of three children, had been pretending she was pregnant so she could claim the newborn as her own. Investigators got their first break when a witness someone they won't identify reported seeing' and speaking to Joshua Evans in Williams' townhouse in Schaumburg, another northwest suburb of Chicago.
Police went to the townhouse Friday night, tut Williams and Caffey were gone, possibly to kill Joshua. They were arrested when they returned, and Ward was arrested later. Giving the shirt off his rack baby blamed in murders if 5 i'-'r pi LOTTERIES KENTUCKY For 112095 CASH FIVE 1-2-18-23-27 No Five-digit winners Pick Three 9-2-7 Pick Four Mother, stepfather held in torture of teen 8-3-9-9 INDIANA For 112095 Daily Three 8-2-1 Daily Four 6-1-2-4 Lucky 5 5-10-22-28-32 ILLINOIS For 112095 Pick Three Midday 1-8-0 Pick Three Evening 8-9-8 Pick Four Midday 2-3-7-3 Pick Four Evening 9-8-1-4 Little Lotto 7-17-19-27-29 OHIO For 112095 Pick Three 0-7-2 Pick Four 5-3-5-2 Buckeye Five 4-19-22-29-37 ASSOCIATED PRESS GOP presidential hopeful Lamar Alexander, a former Tennessee governor, gave a red and black flannel shirt, his campaign trademark, to attorney Susan Duprey during a campaign stop In Manchester, N.H., yesterday. three were charged with kidnapping for the purpose of extortion, maiming, child abuse, solicitation for murder and drug violations. Gammel's wife, Bambi, the teenager's sister, faces charges of child abuse even though the boy told police she gave him her car and some money and told him to flee.
Seven other people were charged with kidnapping for the purpose of extortion, failure to report child abuse and conspiracy to traffic Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY Laine Sumner missed a lot of school. For three days last month, his mother said the 15-year-old boy had the flu. When school officials kept calling, his stepfather finally said he had run away. But the boy had not run away. Instead, authorities contend, he was being tortured by his mother, stepfather and others in an effort to recover $32,000 in drug money they thought he stole.
There was no indication from authorities that the boy actually took the money. Last week, the boy escaped from his brother-in-law's house in Oklahoma City and told police he was shocked with an electrical device, burned with an iron and doused with bleach among other things during an eight-week ordeal. Ten people have been arrested since the boy escaped, including Sumner's stepfather, Eddie McCombs; mother, Jamie Wilson; and brother-in-law, Gary Gammel. All Baby eats better than mom wants Bryant Terry Crosby, Mississippi's biggest baby in years, weighs in at 21 pounds and measures 24 inches tall now that he's 2 months old almost double the average weight (11 pounds) of tykes his age. "He's doing great," said his mother, Stacy Crosby of Forest, Miss.
"He eafs a lot better than I want, but you can't control that." Crosby said her son, who weighed 14 pounds, 13 ounces and measured 22 inches at birth, takes five 8-ounce bottles of formula a day, plus three jars of cereal with fruit. Garth short-handed for tour Musicians, prepare your resumes. Garth Brooks is looking for two band members who aren't obsessed with job security. Brooks has a new album out today and is booked for a U.S. tour, but he lost two musicians to solo careers guitarist Ty England and the country star's own sister, bassist Betsy Brooks.
"The two faces that are probably most known to people, Ty and Betsy, are lost," Brooks said. "So it'll be tough." Brooks said he told both they can rejoin the band any time. Madonna an 'untapped actress'? Actor-director Sean Penn actually has something nice to say about his former wife Madonna. "I think she's an untapped actress," Penn says in Friday's issue of Entertainment Weekly. "Given the right material, I'd work with Madonna.
She's a very specific presence in the world and in my life." The couple divorced in 1989 after a stormy three-year marriage. Asked if they keep in touch, Penn smirked and said, "Not exactly." Birthdays Baseball Hall-of-Famer Stan Musial is 75. Actress-singer Vivian Blaine is 74. Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 61. Actress Goldie Hawn is 50.
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astronaut who will spend five months on the station. The two countries are gearing up to build the international space station, with construction supposed to begin in late 1997, after the last Atlantis-Mir docking, and take five years. Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The shuttle astronauts returned to Earth from Russia's Mir space station yesterday with warm memories of their brief visit and three new friends they left behind. Mission Control greeted commander Kenneth Cameron in Russian after he guided Atlantis through an overcast sky and landed at Kennedy Space Center, and complimented the five-member crew on a "great job" on the eight-day docking mission.
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