NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Wednesday, February 22, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-72 - Bryce Canyon (Utah) - Bomb Explosion; Fatality

At 3:30 a.m. on February 18th, a park visitor reported finding what appeared to
be a strange motor vehicle accident - the car's top damaged, but nothing else
wrong - along a remote stretch of the park's Rainbow Rim Drive.  Rangers found
Aaron Wilson, 18, of Bakersfield, California, sitting in the driver's seat,
fatally injured from an explosive device.  The windows of Wilson's 1977 Lincoln
Continental were blown out, and the doors and roof were expanded outwards by
several inches.  Several unexploded devices were found in the car's interior
along with a detonation controller and cans of black power.  The area was
evacuated and the south end of the park was closed.  An ordnance disposal unit
from Tooele Army Base was dispatched to the scene; they employed a remote
control tracked robot to remove the explosive devices and Wilson's body from
the vehicle.  The area was reopened late the same day.  There were no
indications of criminal activity.  It's believed that Wilson either committed
suicide or was infatuated with explosive devices and was killed in an
accidental detonation. [Charlie Peterson, CR, BRCA, 2/21]

95-73 - Wright Brothers (North Carolina) - Triple Homicide; Suicide

Around 2 a.m. on the morning of February 19th, a couple driving by the park saw
what they first believed to be a dumpster on fire in the First Flight Airstrip
parking lot, but soon found that it was a burning van.  The drove to a nearby
convenience store and summoned the local fire department.  Ranger Charles Baird
also responded.  After the fire had been put out, Baird and the firefighters
discovered at least three bodies inside.  A multi-agency investigation was
begun by the park, the FBI, North Carolina SBI and the Kill Devil Hills police
department.  After completing the initial investigation of the crime scene,
Baird, chief ranger Joe Smith and SBI agent Kevin McGinnis were searching a
wooded area near the monument when they came upon a man under some scrub oak
trees.  When McGinnis told him to raise his hands, the man shot himself with a
handgun.  The man was subsequently identified as D.M. of Seaford,
Delaware.  D.M. was involved  in a custody battle with his wife over
their three children, ages nine, six and four.  His wife had filed a missing
person report on them the previous day.  The state medical examiner's office
subsequently reported that all three children in the van had been shot before
the van had been set afire, and that they had been killed with the same
ammunition as was in the weapon which D.M. used to commit suicide.  [Mike
Anderson, CAHA, 2/20-21]

95-74 - Rocky Mountain (Colorado) - Auto Theft Arrest

On Friday, February 17th, ranger Patty McGlynn-Shafer came upon a vehicle
off road and stuck in a snow bank west of Beaver Meadows entrance station. 
Although there was no NCIC entry for the vehicle, McGlynn-Shafer suspected that
the 1995 Nissan 240SX was stolen because it didn't have license plates and the
odometer only displayed 75 miles.  During the investigation, McGlynn-Shafer and
ranger Kurt Oliver discovered that the driver, J.R. of Caldwell,
Idaho, also had a federal government gasoline credit card in his possession. 
Further investigation revealed that the automobile had been stolen from a
distribution center near Denver along with eleven other vehicles that morning. 
The credit card was stolen out of an unlocked government vehicle parked at park
headquarters.  J.R. was arrested for theft of government property and
operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license.  He was ordered held and
will appear in court today.  [David Holmes, ROMO, 2/21]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Operation Opportunity Job Announcements - There will be no OPOP vacancy list
on Friday, March 3rd.  The next list will appear on Friday, March 10th.  Please
continue to send in vacancies; they will be added to the March 10th listing. 
[Paula Ehrenfeld, Personnel/WASO]

MEMORANDA

No memoranda.

Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.

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