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ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1995 23 CENTS
Newport patrolman shot
CINDY YAMANAKA/The Orange County Register
SCENE OF SHOOTING: An of f i cer looks over t he
rea wher e Newpor t pat r ol man Bob Henry was
f ound Sunday wi t h a gunshot wound in his head.
MOVING
STORM'S
RESIDUE
The Associated
Press
A Cal i forni a
Conservati on
Corps crew
f r om
Mi r amont e
removes mud
and wat er f r om
ar ound a car
buri ed near a
col l apsed
section of an
Int erst at e 5
bri dge near
Coal i nga.
Aut hori t i es
bel i eved t her e
wer e victims
inside. Four
bodi es have
been f ound so
f ar . The br i dge
collapse wi l l
di srupt
t r anspor t at i on
f or about six
-weeks.
Co mp l et e
s t o r m
c ov er age o n
News 16
CRIME:
He is in
critical
condition
after the
city's first
on-duty
shooting in
24 years.
By ANDRE MOUCHARD
The Orange County Register
NEWPORT BEACH The si-
lence of Newport Beach patrol
officer Bob Henry's police radio
was the first clue that something
was wrong.
Shortly after 4:10 a.m. Sunday,
a police dispatcher tried to send
Henry to a report 6f shots fired
near Newport Harbor Lutheran
Church. But Henry, a Si-year vet-
eran, never called back.
About 20 minutes later, his col-
leagues discovered why.
Henry was found lying side by
side in a pool of blood with Gar-
den Grove resident Carlos Cai-
cedo. Both had been shot.
Caicedo, 24, was dead. Henry,
30, was alive but unconscious
with a head wound. He was listed
in critical condition late Sunday
at Hoag Memorial Hospital Pres-
byterian. Doctors were unable to
remove a bullet from his brain
during more than six hours of
emergency surgery.
O.C. declared disaster area
WEATHER: Clinton in-
cludes 38 other coun-
ties. The death toll
rises to at least 12.
From Register news services
SACRAMENTO President
Clinton on Sunday declared
'Orange County and 38 other Cali-
^fornia counties disaster areas af-
ter the latest series of devastat-
ing winter storms.
"California has been badly hit
;by Mother Nature during the last
two years wildfires, the North-
ridge earthquake, J anuary's
flood and now this flooding,"
Clinton said in a statement re-
leased by the White House.
The disaster declaration al-
lows businesses and residents to
apply for financial assistance
through the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
At least 12 people have died in
California over the past several
days as a series of powerful
storms swept over the state.
Gov. Pete Wilson had appealed
to Clinton earlier Sunday to de-
clare the counties disaster areas
after state officials called the
storms the worst of the century.
"California continues to expe-
rience a very intense weather
pattern," Wilson wrote to Clin-
ton. "Long-range predictions
suggest that this series of ex-
traordinarily damaging storms
will continue for some time."
Wilson's letter said FEMA had
denied a request to "reopen the
incident period" for disaster dec-
larations made when heavy
storms pounded the state in J an-
uary. FEMA suggested that the
storms occurring after Feb. 12 be
considered a new disaster,
prompting Wilson's request.
Wilson said in his letter that
damage estimates were not
available because the storms
were continuing.
STORM'S HEAVY TOLL
AT LEAST 12 PEOPLE
HAVE DIED.
MONTEREY PENINSULA IS
CUT OFF FROM THE REST
OF THE STATE.
DAMAGE ESTIMATE
COULD REACH $2
BILLION.
FIERCE TRAFFIC J AMS ARE
EXP EaED DUE TO
MUDSLIDES BLOCKING
ROADS.
Second baby washes
ashore in as many days
49ers,
UCLA
READY
^ CRIME: The body of
the newborn is found
by a beachcomber on
Sunset Beach.
' By DAN FROOMKIN
and DEBORAH BELGUM
The Orange County Register
SUNSET BEACH For the
second time in as many days,
storm debris washing up on
Orange County's shores Sunday
carried a gruesome find: the
' body of a newborn girl.
A beachcomber searching
through the driftwood and reeds
littering Sunset Beach early Sun-
day found the tiny corpse, its um-
bilical cord still attached.
Less than 24 hours earlier, a
jogger made an almost identical
discovery on the Newport Beach
shore, about 12 miles south.
Police say they have no reason
to believe that the two incidents
are anything more than coinci-
dence.
"There's no obvious connec-
tion, and we're not looking into it
in that way right now," Lt. J im
Carson of the Newport Beach Po-
lice Department said.
The Orange County coroner
has yet to determine causes of
death, but both babies appeared
to have been in the water for at
least four days and in both
cases, death came soon after
birth.
Both babies were born at full
term and were too big to be
twins, officials said.
Please see BODY Page 2
Cal State Long
Beach won the
Big West Tour-'
nament on Sun-
day in Lais Ve-
gas. The 49ers
trailed Nevada
64-58 with 2:22
left, and 49 sec-
onds later cen-
ter J oe McNauIl drew his fifth foul. But
Terrence O'Kelley tied the score and
Eric Brown's three-pointer in overtime
drove Long Beach to a 76-69 victory,
garnering the team an NCAA Tourna-
ment berth. And then there's UCLA if
they didn't come right out and splash
the NCAA Tournament pairings in blue"
and gold, they came close enough.
UCLA has the right team peaking at the
right time. And it has Charles OlBan-
non, above. The two teams' chances are
I previewed in a special Sports section.
SAUNAS
LEAVES
MEXICO
Former Mexi- ;
.can President
Carlos Salinas
de Gortari, his
reputation in
tatters and his
elder brother in;,
jail on murder
charges,, has
left Mexico. He
was asked to
leave by an em-
issary of the
man he chose
to succeed him,
President Err
nesto Zedillo,
and will be in
. virtual exile in
the United
States for an
indefinite oeri-
od of time
News 3
Newport Beach police spokes-
man Sgt. Andy Gonis said Hen-
ry's survival likely will be deter-
mined over the next 72 hours.
Because of continuing investi-
gations into the shooting, Gonis
would say only that Henry lives
in south Orange County with his
wife and three young children.
Henry is the first Newport Beach
officer shot in the line of duty in
24 years.
Despite finding some evidence, ,
police aren't sure what happened
leading up to the shootings.
Caicedo and Henry were lying
10 feet behind a 1980s model Dai-,
hatsu Charade, in front of the
chuch parking lot 200 feet from
the intersection of East 16th
Street and Dover Drive.
But Henry's patrol car was
found about 50 feet behind the
Daihatsu, a distance that Gonis
and other police officials said
was too great for a routine traffic
stop.
Please see OFFICER Page 12
Many in O.C. say
bad days coming
POLL: Respondents say
bankruptcy's effects
will be widespread.
By KIM CHRISTENSEN
The Orange County Register
The worst is yet to come.
That's the gloomy assessment
that emerges from an Orange
County Register Poll on the coun-
ty's fiscal crisis, which already
has resulted in a $1.7 billion loss,
layoffs of public employees and
plans to peddle public property
to the highest bidder.
While only 11 percent of the re-
spondents said they have been
greatly affected by the crisis, 51
percent said they expect the
bankruptcy to have "a great deal
of impact" on the county.
Their major worries: Taxes
will go up. Government services
will be cut. Education will be
harmed. J obs will be lost.
"Everything in one way or oth-
er is going to be affected," said
Dianne Mitchell, 48, a HUnting-
ton Beach flight attendant.
"I think there will be sort of a
snowball effect," she said. "I
don't think anybody really knows
how much it will affect things
five years from now or 10 years
from now. I just hope that the
children in school are not going
to suffer from this."
Like 57 percent of those polled,
Mitchell favors a temporary one-
fourth-cent-on-the-dollar in-
crease in sales taxes to deal with
the crisis, which occurred when
former Treasurer Robert Cit-
ron's bad bets on interest rates
crashed the investment fund he
managed.
But while 82 percent of poll
participants heaped blame on
Citron, nearly as many also hold
the county's elected officials re-
sponsible. And 61 percent said
they favor a recall vote for the
three supervisors who were in of-
MEASURIMG
THE IMPACT
Orange County residents say t he
bankruptcy crisis' effects on
schools, public services and t he ,
economy wi l l worsen wi t h ti me.
How much f ut ur e
i mpact do you bel i eve :
t hat t he bank ni pt ^
wi l l have on county
NONE residents?
Shoul d schools
recoup 100 percent
of t hei r
i nvestments?
Source: The Orange County Register Poll
fice at the time of the collapse.
"For them to say, 'J eez, we're
bankrupt, oh, no!' is like J effrey
Dahmer saying, 'I didn't know
anything about that body in my
freezer,' " said Toriy Verger,
33, of Laguna Niguel.
EFFECTS: Some already hurting
because of bankruptcy. Page 4
STAYING PUT: Few plan to leave
due to crisis. Page 4
Boy's road to freedom
led him into oblivion
X
PEOPLE: After 22
years, a mother learns
her missing son was
killed by Randy Kraft.
By TONY SAAVEDRA
The Orange County Register
The headlights of a lone police
cruiser splashed the darkened
roadway as it inched methodical-
ly past the overgrown fields.
Someone had reported a body,
but Huntington Beach police offi-
cer Patrick Clemens figured it
was probably a rolled-up carpet
on the desolate stretch of Ellis
Avenue.
Instead, his high beams hit the
remains of a boy dumped by seri-
al killer Randy Kraft. It was 1:45
a.m., April 14, 1973.
It would be 22 years before the
sexually mutilated victim was
identified as Kevin Clark Bailey
a 17-year-old drifter who spent
much of his young life breaking
out of mental institutions and
hitchhiking along California
highways.
, On what appeared to be his fi-
nal, attempt to get home, Kevin
stepped into a car driven by
Kraft and ended up J ohn Doe
#7301409, his body buried in an
unmarked grave.
Kevin's mother, Barbara Par-
ry, had long agonized over,her
missing son, at first praying that
he was safe and alive, then pray-
ing for proof that he was dead
Without such evidence, th
Church of J esus Christ of Latter-
day Saints would not conduct the
Pie/jse see VICTIM Page 8
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