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Tragedy on Little Gasparilla
Early morning fire claims 4 lives PHOTO
PROVIDED BY
GAIL JONES
By DANA SANCHEZ what appeared to be only took place. He said the blaze The State Fire
ASSISTANT ENGLEWOOD EDITOR charred pilings and an outside generated a fierce wind of its own. Marshal’s office
staircase intact. Officials are investigating the is investigating
LITTLE GASPARILLA ISLAND
Neighbors say they woke to cause of the fire and did not a fire which
— Four people died in an early
what sounded like an explosion release the names of the victims burned a
morning fire Saturday that bayfront home
burned a house to its foundation. and popping sounds. They say Saturday, pending notification of
next of kin.
to the ground
State Fire Marshal officials and they feared for their lives and and killed four
Charlotte County Sheriff’s property as burning embers flew Sometime between 2 a.m. and
people early
deputies swarmed the island all overhead on the heavily treed 2:30 a.m., residents became
Saturday
day Saturday to look for human island. aware of the fire, Jones said. morning on
remains and evidence after a fire “It looked like fireworks,” said “When we looked out the Little Gasparilla
raged through a stilt home at Richard Jones, who lives three Island.
9660 Privateer Road, leaving doors away from where the fire FIRE | P4
Southwest
Florida COLD CASES
CHARLOTTE COUNTY • ADELE FROM WALMART THE SAME DAY. • THE BODY OF
MERRITT WHEELER SR., 36, WAS DISCOV-
EASTERLY, 25, WAS SHOT AND KILLED NOV. 6,
1979, AT THE FARM STORE IN RIDGE HARBOR, ERED OCT. 8, 1980, IN HORSE CREEK NEAR THE
IN AN APPARENT ARMED ROBBERY. • HARRY HORSE CREEK BRIDGE, ALONG COUNTY ROAD
SCOTT AND STANLEY SMITH WERE FOUND 769. BASED ON EVIDENCE FROM THE SCENE,
SHOT TO DEATH IN THEIR BOAT NEAR CAPE HAZE INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED HE SUSTAINED SUB-
ON OCT. 9, 1990. • TARA DANIELLE STANTIAL INJURY BEFORE BEING DUMPED INTO THE
SIDAROVICH’S REMAINS WERE DISCOVERED IN WATER. • ROGER CHITWOOD, 28, REPORT-
A WOODED AREA OFF BURNT STORE ROAD ON EDLY WAS ABDUCTED FROM HIS HOME IN AUGUST
JULY 12, 2002. THE 19-YEAR-OLD PUNTA 1975; HE WAS FOUND DEAD DAYS LATER IN THE
GORDA WOMAN WAS REPORTED MISSING OCT. 1, KISSIMMEE RIVER IN OKEECHOBEE COUNTY. •
2001. • SHARON GILL, 42, WAS FOUND JOSEPH KINVILLE, 16, WAS FOUND IN A
STABBED TO DEATH AT HER RAMPART BOULEVARD FIELD OFF ROBIN ROAD IN MARCH 1999.
HOME MARCH 21, 1990, IN DEEP CREEK. • THE ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, HE SUFFERED
BODY OF VICTORIA ARENA, 32, WAS FOUND SUN PHOTO BY JASON WITZ, jwitz@sun-herald.com INJURIES CONSISTENT WITH A HOMICIDE. •
JUNE 16, 2001, IN A WOODED AREA IN PUNTA The Deep Creek home where Sharon Gill was brutally stabbed to death on March 21, JULIAN MENDIOLA WAS KILLED ON CHRIST-
1990. The killing remains unsolved today. MAS EVE IN 1996, DURING AN INVASION OF HIS
GORDA. SHE WAS LAST SEEN AT HER ENGLEWOOD
WHO KILLED SHARON GILL?
HOME FIVE DAYS EARLIER. • UNIDENTIFIED NORTHEAST GOOLSBY AVENUE HOME. THE INVES-
SKELETAL REMAINS WERE FOUND NEAR THE LAND- TIGATION REVEALED TWO MASKED ASSAILANTS
FILL ON ZEMEL ROAD IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF ENTERED HIS HOME DEMANDING MONEY. MENDI-
CHARLOTTE COUNTY ON JAN. 6, 2002. THE Family still But after all these years,
someone still has blood on OLA, 30, WAS SHOT WHILE RESISTING THEM.
REMAINS ARE BELIEVED TO BE THOSE OF A WHITE hunts for clues his hands.
HISPANIC MALE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 35
“It’s just frustrating that
SARASOTA COUNTY • A NEIGHBOR
OR
AND 55. HE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN BETWEEN 5
in brutal death after 19 years, we do not
know anything,” said Krista, OF PAUL COLICCI FOUND HIS BODY NOV. 15,
By JASON WITZ who has since moved to 1998, AT HIS SARASOTA HOME. • CINDY
FEET 6 INCHES AND 5 FEET 9 INCHES TALL, STAFF WRITER Canada to raise a family.
WEIGHING BETWEEN 150 AND 180 POUNDS. DEEP CREEK — Krista Gill Authorities, too, have ROGERS’ BODY WAS FOUND APRIL 7, 1992,
is emotionally tired. gone cold with the investi- INSIDE A PLASTIC TRASH CAN, FLOATING IN THE
For 19 years, she has gation, although tips
DESOTO COUNTY • EILEEN SEYMOUR, waited and waited for a
Sharon Gill continued to trickle in until POOL OF THE HOME WHERE SHE HAD BEEN LIVING.
conviction in her mother’s the end of 2008. • DEBORAH DALZELL, 47, DIED IN MARCH
84, WAS FOUND DEAD IN HER FEMA TRAILER IN Krista’s youngest children
brutal stabbing, to the point
MARCH 2006. AN AUTOPSY REVEALED SHE SUS- of mental exhaustion. are starting to ask about it, despite 1999, AS THE RESULT OF A HOME INVASION ROB-
TAINED HEAD TRAUMA, LIKELY FROM BLOWS TO THE Someone knows who did it. their naive understanding of death. BERY. • ESCO HUNTER WAS FOUND DECEASED
Someone walked through the house With time, she will reveal the answers.
HEAD. • THE BODY OF 17-YEAR-OLD JOHN IN A WOODED AREA NEAR CENTRAL AVENUE AND
that March morning, as Sharon Gill’s Yet there remains a question that has
WELLES WAS FOUND IN THE WATER ACROSS bloodied body lay on the bedroom eluded Krista all these years, the one 44TH STREET ON DEC. 1, 1999. HIS RED VAN
floor. Someone washed in the bath- her grieving family cannot solve: Who
FROM THE STREET FROM HIS HANSEL ROAD HOME room sink afterward, removing all
IN JULY 2003. HE WAS LAST SEEN RETURNING traces of the act from his fingertips. KILLED | P6 UNSOLVED MURDERS | P6
Swine flu cases confirmed 100 days of Obama: Lots
in at least six US states of energy, no miracles
By NANCY BENAC
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
By MARK STEVENSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MORE INSIDE • A glance at the world’s last three
influenza pandemics. WASHINGTON — Barack Obama opened
his presidency by drawing an unflinching
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s • The World Health Organization • What is swine flu, and why should portrait of the challenges. Then he set about
president assumed new warned countries around the world to you be concerned about it? turning those perils into possibilities.
powers Saturday to isolate be on alert for flu outbreaks. • See page 7 In a dizzying dash to the 100-day
people infected with a deadly mark, Obama made a down
swine flu strain as authorities California and suspected in New workers patrolled airports and payment on the changes he’d
struggled to contain an York City, but health officials bus stations as they tried to promised and delivered a
outbreak that world health said they didn’t know whether it corral people who may be trillion-dollar wallop to wake
officials warned could become was the strain that has killed up infected with the swine flu, as up the moribund economy.
a global epidemic. to 68 people in Mexico and it became clearer that the He put the country on track to
New cases of swine flu were likely sickened more than 1,000.
confirmed in Kansas and Mexican soldiers and health FLU | P7 OBAMA | P6
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NEWS ACROSS police were looking for George
Zinkhan, a marketing professor at
remain closed by continuing
repairs, including work by the
degree temperatures, North
Dakota turned colder and the
said the man ran into an 18-
month-old girl who was seated in
AMERICA the school in Athens, which is
about 70 miles east of Atlanta.
Athens-Clarke Assistant Police
Army Corps of Engineers to
reinforce the breakwater along
the length of the island. That work
ground turned white. The National
Weather Service had no reports
of major snowfall amounts Friday
a stroller. She was transferred to
Vanderbilt’s children’s hospital in
Nashville with serious injuries,
Chief Alan Brown tells The Athens- also limits access to the beach. but Bismarck and some areas in Shankle said.
Alaska feed in 50 pound sacks. The the Banner Herald that there is the southwestern part of the state
JUNEAU — The state of Alaska St. Paul, Minn.-based company “some indication he may have Maryland got a light dusting in the morning. Utah
will begin offering either direct said Friday that the feed has the had multiple weapons.” A system coming out of the
deposit or debit cards to those potential to have higher than SHARPSBURG — Fire officials say Rockies is expected to bring more OGDEN — Ogden officials are
receiving unemployment benefits. acceptable levels of salt. The Iowa a man accused of setting another snow, possibly mixed with rain, to warning a shopkeeper to remove
The change starts Monday for maker says higher salt levels can on fire has been charged with the state Sunday, the weather an obscenity he scrawled across
workers filing for benefits. Those cause serious health issues and, DES MOINES — The House first- and second-degree assault. service said. his windows in an escalating
who qualified for benefits before at high levels, potential mortality agreed Friday to put new Nineteen-year-old Clayton Muller fight with city code officers. City
Monday who did not choose in poultry. The recall was initiated restrictions on farmers applying of Sharpsburg was released Oregon workers erected a tarp across
direct deposit will continue to after a small number of liquid manure to frozen ground, a Friday after posting $15,000 the message Bruce Edwards
receive paper checks. The state customers complained that their move aimed at preventing runoff bond. According to the fire EUGENE— A ruling this week from wrote using the f-word to
labor department says two free birds died, the company said. into Iowa’s waterways. The marshal’s office, the incident the Oregon Court of Appeals has describe his opinion of city
withdrawals can be made measure prohibits producers from occurred March 15 at Muller’s highlighted concern among safety government. Ogden community
monthly at participating ATMs. California applying liquid manure to frozen home. Muller is accused of officials and river guides about development manager Keith
People also can request cash ground from Feb. 1 to April 1. spraying lighter fluid on a inflatable rafts and drinking. The Morey says the antique dealer
back from purchases made at SANTA BARBARA — The Dalai fireplace and trailing it onto court ruled that inflatable rafts risks drawing a public-nuisance
more than 4,300 participating Lama says the global economic Kentucky another man’s upper body. The are covered by the state laws that charge unless he erases the
retail outlets. crisis will teach people that victim became engulfed in prohibit drinking and boating. The message. Edwards has a history
peace of mind, family and friends LOUISVILLE — Rock great Bob flames; a witness helped put the inflatable rafts addressed by the of using his storefront to
Arizona can bring happiness when money Dylan will perform at Louisville fire out. Authorities say the victim court can be dangerous, said Guy hammer the city with insults and
is lacking. The spiritual leader Slugger Field this summer, and suffered second-degree burns to Santiago, owner of Oregon River says he won’t back down. He’s
SIERRA VISTA — A Cochise said at a news conference Friday he’ll bring along a couple of his arm, chest and face. Sports in Glenwood. “They don’t gearing up for another legal
County judge has declared a at the University of California, guests: Willie Nelson and John maneuver well, they puncture fight. The sign brouhaha is one
mistrial in a murder case Santa Barbara that the crisis is Mellencamp. The show will be Missouri easily,” he said. “We call them thing. Edwards is resisting an
because the defendant’s brother good because it reminds people July 8, and is part of Dylan’s disposables.” order to clean up another lot in
dropped his pants, gestured and who only want to see money grow ongoing tour of minor-league KANSAS CITY — About 200 town where he collects
made threatening comments in that there are limits. The head of baseball parks. The famed singer- people have attended a unity South Carolina restaurant equipment, light
the presence of jurors. Judge Tibet’s exiled government songwriter began performing at march and prayer hour in Kansas fixtures, duct work and other
Wallace Hoggatt ended the trial delivered two public lectures that the parks in 2004. He will release City in memory of a slain girl who CHARLESTON — Things will be a stuff.
on Friday after jurors reported sold out within two hours. He a new album, “Together Through for years was known only as little wild and woolly along the
seeing and hearing acts by blames the worldwide financial Life,” on Tuesday. Tickets to the “Precious Doe.” The event South Carolina coast this Virginia
Steven Kastner outside the crisis on greed, lies and hypocrisy. Louisville concert are $69.50 and Saturday lasted more than an weekend as Middleton Place
courtroom. Kastner was attending go on sale May 9. hour and concluded with a Plantation holds its annual sheep NORFOLK — Customs officials
the trial of his brother, 28-year- Georgia dedication of a park honoring the and wool days festival. Sheep are have seized more than 20,000
old Jonathan Arthur Ramil. Ramil Louisiana girl and other slain or abused a big part of the plantation on pairs of counterfeit designer
is charged with first-degree ATHENS — Three people were children. The site of the future the Ashley River outside jeans at the Port of Hampton
murder for the June 2008 slaying killed Saturday at a community GRAND ISLE — Grand Isle State park is a wooded area where Charleston and graze on the Roads. U.S. Customs and Border
of 43-year-old Patrick Gleason in theater near the University of Park is set to reopen Friday, eight 3-year-old Erica Green’s greensward in back of the Protection said Friday that the
a Willcox home. Georgia, and authorities were months after it was shut down by dismembered body was found on plantation house. Visitors to the jeans were valued at more than
searching for a professor in the Hurricane Gustav. Office of State April 28, 2001. The child wasn’t plantation will be able to see $403,000. Bill Blass, Rocawear
Arkansas shooting deaths. Athens-Clarke Parks spokeswoman Sharon identified until May 2005, when sheep dog herding demonstra- and South Pole were among the
County Coroner Sonny Wilson Broussard said the park needed her mother and the mother’s tions. They will also see sheep brand labels on the jeans, which
LITTLE ROCK — Land O’Lakes said the three were shot off $527,000 in repairs and cleanup husband were arrested in being sheared, and artisans were shipped from China.
Purina Feed LLC has initiated a campus about 12:30 p.m. He did work after the Sept. 1 storm and connection with the slaying in dyeing, knitting and weaving with Customs spokesman Tim Sushil
limited voluntary recall of a single not immediately have any other Hurricane Ike, which hit less than Muskogee, Okla. The couple were their wool. said the jeans probably will be
lot of a Country Acres poultry details. The school’s Web site said two weeks later. Ten camp sites convicted in the killing last year. destroyed, although they could
Tennessee be donated with permission
North Carolina from trademark owners.
PARIS — A man on a four-
ASHEVILLE — Chimney Rock wheeler lost control after having a Vermont
State Park has been expanded by seizure and plowed into a crowd
more than 300 acres. The along a parade route Friday BERLIN — Police in Berlin say a
Asheville Citizen-Times reports the injuring 13 people — including an new kind of counterfeit $100 bill
Foothills Conservancy of North 18-month-old, authorities say. The that somehow passes validation
Carolina was able to secure two incident happened around noon tests is making the rounds in
tracts to expand the park to Cane in Paris, a small town 120 miles Vermont. The Berlin Police
Creek Mountain. One 174-acre northwest of Nashville near the Department and the U.S. Secret
property was bought about a year Kentucky border, at an annual Service are investigating the bills,
u ago, while an adjoining 156 acres event dubbed the “World’s 20 of which have been received
was bought in February. The land Biggest Fish Fry.” Mike Shankle, by banks and businesses in
coast $6.5 million. A total of director of Emergency Medical Berlin, Barre and Montpelier.
4,320 acres has been set aside Services for Henry County Instead of showing a black mark
for Chimney Rock State Park. Medical Center, said the man on when written on by a currency
the four-wheeler was following a validation marker, the bills have
North Dakota float just as the parade was some sort of chemical coating
ending when he lost control and that allows them to beat the test.
Quality BISMARCK — After a day of 80- slammed into the crowd. Shankle Berlin police say they’ve located
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® Copyright Bill Smith, Inc. 2009. All rights reserved †Low Price Guarantee does not apply to internet quotes, companies in bankruptcy, outlet stores, warehouse-type reduced service companies,early-bird specials, limited time offers or limited quantity items. If you find an identical model in a carton from a local stocking dealer we will refund 110% of the difference.Satisfaction guarantee applies within 30 days of
delivery; does not apply to special order merchandise. Same day/next day appliance repair service available in regular service areas Monday-Friday (excluding holidays) except on some barrier islands. *With purchase of an HDTV a $100 credit will be appplied to your Comcast account after 30 days of digital service. Finance offers available to approved applicants. Minimum or equal payments required. All no-interest
purchases must be written by 05/01/09 and delivered by 05/15/09. See store for details. Savings statistics provided by U.S. Dept. of Energy. Visit www.energystar.gov for more information! Package rebates - see store for details. We can service in-warranty products only if purchased from Bill Smith. When using a Bill Smith revolving charge; minimum payments required during deferred period except when stated
otherwise; interest accrues from date of purchase; however, if balance is paid prior to end of deferred period, all accrued finance charges will be credited. If balance is not paid, interest is payable from date of purchase. We reserve the right to limit quantities. No dealers. Closeout specials in limited quantities. All models not at all locations. Sale prices in effect through 04/29/2009.