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Monday, October 22, 1990/ University Daily Kansan
Beating of Haskell graduate still an unsolved case
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
The mystery unfolded more than a week ago when a 1989 Haskell Indian Junior College graduate was found lying unconscious behind Strong Hall, halfway on the sidewalk and halfway on the street.
From 3.30 a.m. m. Oct. 14, when a KU security officer found Rodney Someter, 25, through Thursday, 14 area police officers and information to fill in the pages of the mystery's plot. They pursued 79 leads and contacted 107 people, generating about 300 pages of reports, said LJ John Mulleners of KU
Including the work of officers who coordinated the investigation and dealt with the press, Mullens said.
the team of about 20 people worked almost 80 hours trying to determine how Soldier had received a blow above his left temple that fractured the top half of his skull and put him in a coma. He was at the university of Kansas Medical Center.
Linda Reger, Med Center nurse, said yesterday that Soldier's condition had been upgraded to serious on Saturday, when he was breathing through a ventilator and was unconscious, although his vital signs were stable. He remained in serious condition Sunday.
Mullens said that Soldier had gone to sleep sometime before 1:30 a.m. Oct. 14 on a rock wall of Spencer Research Library. Some friends woke him up, and about 1:30 a.m. Soldier broke up a fight between an
18-year-old KU student and a 25-year-old former Haskell student, both friends of Soldier.
KU police responded to the fight and arrested the former Haskell student shortly after 1:30 a.m., and the scene quipped "He just again went to sleep on the rock wall, where he was last seen by two friends at 3:10 a.m.
Soldier's blood-alcohol content was above 0.10 percent, which is the legal limit of intoxication in Kansas, Mullens
He said that after all the time and energy that had gone into the investigation, officers were frustrated because no one seemed to know what happened to Soldier between 1:10 and 3:10 a.m.
"It would be a novel with the next
It would be a novel with the next to the last chapter completely missing.
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— John Mullens KU police lieutenant
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to the last chapter completely missing," Mullens said. "We've got the afterword. We haven't got the final chapter.
"It's not like the barroom brawl where you've got 15 people who will say who started it. It is something
that happens that's not clear cut. It's something you're going to have to dig into."
Mullens said the Soldier investigation was conducted in many steps.
The first step was looking for evidence, taking photographs and trying to identify the victim at the scene of the crime.
Almost 60 pieces of evidence, including hair samples, cigarette butts, beer cans, blood samples and pieces of Soldier's clothing were collected.
The first leads were developed from the information that was gathered at the scene and from medical officials. Then, the information was sent to one police officer who was put in charge of the investigation.
Information that came in from first leads developed into other leads. People who were at the scene of the crime were questioned, and they sometimes knew the names of other people who were there.
Plain clothes officers went to the area behind Strong on Saturday night to lock for someone who visited the scene. He was taken there when Soldier was injured.
On Friday, officers in charge of the Soldier investigation spent the day reading reports to look for inconsistencies and questions that need to be answered, which will be assigned as the next leads.
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Mullens said the only unknown fact about Soldier's activities that morning was what happened between 3:10 and 3:30 a.m.
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