RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           CC: RAD Information Net

Day/date: Friday, January 19, 1990

INCIDENTS

87-271 - Yosemite (California) - Homicide Arrest

On December 5, 1987, S.G. reported to park rangers that his wife,
Dolores, was missing. He said that the two of them had arrived in the park
that afternoon and stopped at Tunnel View. He said that she went for a walk
while he took a nap, and that he could not find her after he awoke. A
search was begun, and her body was found the next day at the bottom of a
350-foot cliff. A joint investigation involving the NPS and the FBI was
begun shortly thereafter. S.G. was an enlisted man at Lemoore NAS at the
time of the incident, so the Naval Investigative Service assisted in the
probe. Investigators found that the two had been married in August, 1987,
and that S.G. had taken cut over $400,000 in insurance policies on
her life just prior to her death. On October 20, 1989, following an 18-
month-long investigation, S.G., now discharged from the Navy, was arrested
for the murder of his wife. He was arraigned in US District Court in Fresno
on October 23rd and pleaded innocent. S.G. is being held without bail in
the Fresno County jail. A status conference is scheduled for January 29th
to determine when the trial will be held. S.G. faces a maximum sentence of
life imprisonment without parole. (CompuServe message from Herb Gercke,
RAD/WRO, noon EST, 1/18/90).

90-12 - Big Cypress (Florida) - Drowning

Just after noon on January 13th, 65-year-old O.L. apparently slipped
while attempting to get water from a canal near Batton's Pit, fell into the
water and drowned. It appears that O.L. was attempt to use the water to put
out a grass fire. (Telephone report from Steve Alscher, RAD/SERO, 1/18/90).

STAFF STATUS

Kreis on lieu day.


Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

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