Merry Christmas from the Average Okie(tm)
TERROR from the YEAR 2000!
wrote:
>Now come on, Deming. You gotta admit this guy has to merit *some* award for
>his morals, ethics, and character.
>
>**** CLIPPED FROM THE TULSA WORLD NEWSPAPER******
>
>Woman found dead
>By MICHAEL SMITH World Staff Writer
>12/30/99
> Hazel Lynch, 79, (center) is escorted from Springfield, Mo., police
>headquarters Wednesday night after telling police about her abduction from a
>local drugstore parking lot.
>SPRINGFIELD NEWS-LEADER / Associated Press
>
>Money allegedly used to buy gifts for his new family
>Laid off from his job as a plumber's apprentice a week before Christmas,
>Steven Ray Thacker lamented that a shortage of cash would prevent him from
>lavishing his new family with gifts, Thacker's father-in-law said Wednesday.
>
>But then Thacker seemed to have money. A significant amount. Money that had
>been wired to him from his mother for Christmas shopping, Keith Roberson
>said Thacker told him.
>
>So Thacker and his wife, Trena (Roberson) Thacker, went to the Wal-Mart in
>Pryor to buy presents for the family on Dec. 23 and spent hundreds of
>dollars, Keith Roberson said.
>
>But he didn't pay in cash, according to police.
>
>Steven Thacker allegedly used a debit card belonging to Laci Dawn Hill, 25,
>whose body was found Wednesday in a rural Chouteau area near Thacker's
>residence, FBI officials have said. Thacker is expected to be charged with
>first-degree murder on Thursday.
>
>``We just can't believe how he sat here at Christmas with us and carried on
>like nothing happened,'' Keith Roberson said of his son-in-law.
>
>He said his daughter -- the woman seen with Thacker in Wal-Mart surveillance
>tapes and the person who identified Thacker to the FBI -- had no idea that
>her husband was lying about the money.
>
>``If you notice on that videotape, she leaves before he pays,'' Keith
>Roberson said. ``She told us that he sent her out to get the car. I guess
>that's so she wouldn't see the woman's credit card.''
>
>He said his daughter, who could not be reached for comment, met Thacker at a
>Tulsa nightclub in May. That same month, Thacker had been released from a
>Florida prison, where he had served time on convictions for bogus checks,
>records show.
>
>``We knew he'd been in some trouble, but Trena told us that he had changed
>and that he's not bad anymore,'' Keith Roberson said.
>
>He said the couple started living together soon after meeting and then
>married in August. Thacker appeared to be a ``good- natured person'' when he
>was around Trena and her two children from a previous relationship, the
>father-in-law said.
>
>Roberson said Thacker left prison and had come to northeastern Oklahoma to
>work for a short time for his father, an electrical contractor for a job at
>the new postal distribution center in east Tulsa.
>
>Trena Thacker has been ``so upset that she's about at the point of a nervous
>breakdown,'' but she never hesitated in going to police when she saw her
>husband on the surveillance tape on TV and learned that he had used Hill's
>cards, her father said.
>
>``As soon as she realized what happened, she wanted to do the right thing,''
>Roberson said.
>
>Police said Thacker fled his residence -- located near the Roberson home --
>on Monday night, apparently knowing he'd been identified from the store
>videotape.
>
>Roberson said he is probably the person who inadvertently alerted Thacker
>about the development in the case.
>
>``He came by the house, and I asked him if he saw the 6 p.m. news when they
>showed a guy using (Hill's) credit card at the store,'' Roberson said. ``He
>just asked me when they were going to show it again, and I told him probably
>at 10 p.m.''
>
>Thacker left his residence by 9 p.m., the FBI said.
>
>``He didn't come home that night, and that next morning I really looked at
>that tape and saw it looked like him,'' Roberson said. ``I showed it to
>Trena, and she just said, `Oh, this can't be true.' ''
>
>Thacker was raised near Huntington, W.V., just across the Ohio River from
>the southern tip of Ohio.
>
>But the family crisscrossed the country, going wherever his step-father's
>electrical jobs took them, acquaintances said.
>
>"His step-dad is from everywhere," said Hancel Gillespie, the Thacker
>family's next-door neighbor and landlord in the mid-1990s, when they were in
>Huntington.
>
>"His step-dad has a 40-foot trailer he pulls behind a truck, and wherever it
>stopped, that was home," Gillespie said.
>
>Steven Thacker went from job to job when Gillespie knew him.
>
>"He didn't hang onto a job too long," Gillespie said. "He'd leave for a
>couple weeks and then hunt him up another job."
>
>By the time he was 29, prison had become a familiar place for Thacker. He
>has been in and out of several prisons, mostly in Florida, since he was 19.
>
>But he was never jailed for violent offenses, according to pris on records
>and accounts from friends and relatives.
>
>"He would do foolish things, if you understand what I'm saying," Gillespie
>said. "It was always checks and stuff like that."
>
>His rap sheet in Florida includes mainly check fraud and motor vehicle theft
>charges in the Tampa area, according to the Florida Department of
>Corrections. Those charges sent him to Florida prisons from November 1990 to
>February 1991 and again from October 1991 to May 1992.
>
>Then, in May 1997, Thacker was sentenced to 54 months in prison for hot
>checks and grand theft auto. Two years later, he was freed from the Jackson
>Correctional Institute, in the Florida Panhandle just south of Alabama, on
>May 1.
>
>"He was no longer under any probation whatsoever," said a Florida Department
>of Corrections employee.
>
>His residence at the time of his release was an apartment in Orlando, Fla.,
>records show. But a few days after being freed, he came to Tulsa and met
>Trena Roberson. They married and moved to Chouteau some time later.
What a story.
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