University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 7, 1987
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Police now think Missouri family was killed by uncle
The Associated Press
MARSHFIELD, Mo. — Police investigating the killings of seven members of a rural family turned their suspicion from a slain 14-year-old to his wounded uncle after learning that the boy was left-handed while the murder weapon was found in his right hand, officials said yesterday.
A Missouri Highway Patrol investigator said the uncle, James E. Snick, admitted during a two-hour interrogation Monday that he was planning for the shootings on the morning of Sept. 23.
"As far as I'm concerned, it's a confess-
tion," Stg Tom Martin said. "He told us he
did it."
Schnick, 36, of rural Elkland, was taken to
court yesterday on charges that he murdered, his wife and six other relatives.
Schnick shook when he stood on crutches before Webster County Associate Circuit Judge Daniel Max Knust, but quietly answered "Yes, sir," when the judge asked if he understood the seven first-degree murder charges filed against him Monday.
Earlier, Schnick had claimed that he killed his nephew, Kirk Bucknur, in a struggle after the youth killed Schnick's wife, Julie, 30. The Schnicks' two children were unharmed.
Deputies then went to the Buckner farm, about five miles away, and found the bodies of Kirk's mother, Jeanette, and three brothers, Dennis, 6, Timmy, 6, and Michael, 2. Later, Kirk's father, Steve Buckner, Mrs.
Schickn's brother, was found dead along a road between the two farms.
Schnick was wounded, and police found a gun in Kirk's right hand.
Officials said yesterday that suspicion turned from Kirk to his uncle after they learned that Schnick's wounds were minor, and the teen-ager was left-handed.
Webster County Sheriff Eugene Fraker said there were also questions about how the gun ended up in Kirk's hand after he suffered the bullet and stab wounds that killed him.
"It's pretty hard to pick up a gun when you're dead, in either hand," the sheriff said at a news conference.
Fraker asked no single piece of evidence led authorities to charge Schnick, although several things had emerged in the 10 days since the killings.
"Daily, it became more doubtful that our first assumption was correct," said Fraker, who earlier had said authorities were "as sure he could be that" that Kirk Buckner was the killer.
Schnick was hospitalized for four days after the shootings. Fraker said the first real indication that he might be a suspect came when he shot and wounded someone about the gunshot伤害 he suffered.
"His wounds not nearly as serious as we were led to believe," the sheriff said. "At the time we thought they were life-threatening."
Fraker said an abdominal wond was
superficial, but a leg wound caused swelling that resulted in Schnick being shoeless and on crutches in court.
Webster County prosecutor Don Chevera said at the news conference that it was possible Schnick's wounds were self-inflicted.
Another factor that troubled investigators, Martin said, was how Kirk could have moved the body of his 250-pound father and then wrestled with the 190-pound Schnick.
"He was a frail, 90-pound boy," said Martin. "That's just one of the things that bothered us."
Cheever and Fraker said they had solid information on a motive, but would not discuss it.
NutraSweet may aid dieters, study says
The Associated Press
BOSTON — The popular sugar substitute NutraSweet doesn't ruin diets by making people eat more, as some research suggests. It may even help women lose weight, according to a study released yesterday.
The research found that women seemed to be able to stick to lowcalorie diets better when they satisfied their cravings for sweets with sodas and snacks containing NutraSweet.
The study found no evidence that men lose weight faster when they use the sweetener. In fact, they actually did worse in this experiment. But experts cautioned that the number of male participants was too small to produce statistically meaningful results.
Researchers also cautioned that artificially sweetened snacks and drinks can help people drop pounds only if they eat them instead of fattening treats — not in addition to them.
"In this particular study, adding an artificial sweetener, primarily one or two diet sodas a day and one or two snacks or desserts containing aspartame, was successful in producing more weight loss and better quality of life," said Dr. George Blackburn of New England Deaconess Hospital, who directed the study.
Blackburn said his research does not substantiate suggestions that NutraSweet, known generically as aspartame, undermines diets by prompting people to eat more.
In a letter last year in the British journal Lancet, Dr. J.E. Blundell and colleagues at Leeds University in England said the artificial sweetener appears to stimulate people's appetites.
In tests on 95 volunteers, Blundell found that compared with sugar or ordinary water, apartmame left people with a "residual hunger" that leads to increased food consumption. However, the group did not actually test what, if any, effect this had on dieting.
Other studies have tested the effects of another sweetener, saccharin, on rats' eating habits. They have shown that animals fed a sugar solution actually eat fewer calories than those that get artificially sweetened fluids.
Blackburn's study, financed by NutraSha, was conducted on 46 overweight women and 13 overweight men. The women were put on low-fat diets that added up to 1,000 calories a day, while the men got 1,200 calories.
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Western witnesses said a few were arrested quietly on the way and others were.
About 60 marchers continued to the gate of the Tibetan regional government office. About 100 security officers carrying submachine guns and automatic pistols immediately herded them onto trucks.
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The marchers did not wear the saffron robes usually worn by monks, but they came from the direction of the Drepung monastery, one of three leading monasteries whose members led the independence demonstrations last week. The monastery is about five miles west of Lhasa.
Tibet protest halted by Chinese officials
Western witnesses said police fired Thursday on demonstrators who burned a police station and vehicles in the temple square.
The Associated Press
LHASA, Tibet — About 60 people shouting the name of Tibet's exiled god-king marched yesterday to a government office, where armed Chinese security forces quickly arrested them, herded them into trucks and drove them away.
About 100 marchers raised their fists and chanted the name of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's former civil and religious leader, who fled to exile in India after a 1959 uprising against a state rule. China annexed Tibet in 1950.
The marchers, thought to be Buddhist monks in street clothes, did not resist arrest. About 2,000 bystanders made no attempt to help them or four other monks arrested at about the same time in the Jokhang Temple where pro-independence protests last week left at least 14 people dead.
The troops are to guard against further unrest today, the 37th anniversary of China's occupation of Beijing and who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Tibetans and Chinese said they expected the anniversary to be quiet because people feared police would fire on protesters.
The Chinese government has sent 1,000 armed police to Lhasa, capital of Tibet, said a source from the local Public Security Bureau.
Western doctors in Lhasa said eight Tibetans were shot to death, and one Chinese was stoned to death. Authorities said six Chinese police were killed. It was not known if the
Another U.S. witness, Cliff Toliver, Cincinnati resident, said some bystanders surged forward and shouted when police and soldiers struck a marcher. No clash ensued.
There was a smaller, less violent protest Sept. 27 that resulted in two dozen arrests. Yesterday's march was the first protest since Thursday.
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