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THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1995
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O.C TO HOST TRIAL FOR CHARLS NG, ACCUSED OF 12 KIUJNGS IN
A NOTORIOUS CASE
By STUART PFEIFER
The Orange County Register
judge , ruled Friday
that serial-killing sus-
pect Charles Ng will
stand trial in Orange
.County for some of
California!s . most notorious
slayings, rejecting a defense mo-
tion to transfer the case back to
Northern California.
Randy Kraft
victim goes
home to
family plot
UPDATE: Twenly-two
years after his death, a
man slain by the noto-
rious serial killer is
buried in Arizona.
By TONY SAAVEDRA
The Orange County Register
In death, Kevin Clark Bailey
has found the home that eluded
him in life.
Dumped on a Huntington
Beach roadside by serial killer
Randy Kraft, Bailey, 17, went un-
identified for 22 years, buried in
an unmarked grave.
But the mystery, was solved
this month by a deputy coroner,
and Bailey's body was moved
within days to a family plot at his
parent's homestead in Snow-
flake, Ariz.
Diagnosed as hyperactive, the
youth had spent much of his life
escaping from mental institu-
tions and hitchhiking home. But
he never stayed long, said his
mother, Barbara Parry.
Now he is home for good, and
: that has opened the way for the
; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints to conduct the proce-
! dures to send his soul on the road
to heaven. ^
The death of Bailey, whose
body was found by a police offi-
cer April 14,1973, came at a time
when there were no high-speed
computers to analyze thousands
of fingerpirints from throughout
the Western United States.
It also came at a time when
Orange County was still burying
its "John Does" in public plots at
El Toro Memorial Cemetery.
. If he had died more recently,
he would have been cremated,
his ashes spread at sea if they
had not been claimed within two
years, said Gerran Brown,
whose family owns Brown Colo-
nial Mortuary in Santa Ana.
The mortuary handled the pa-
perwork and exhumed the body
March 15 at cost.
Kevin Bailey's body, shrouded
in plastic,^ was transported by
car to Snowflake, a 10-hour
drive, said Jewkes Mortuary,
which handled the burial March
17 in Arizona.
COURTS: The ex-Marine is suspected of
torturing victims a decade ago in Cala.veras
County. Testimony would begin in 1997.
It could take two years before a
jury begins hearing testimony
against Ng, whose trial is expect-
ed to be one of the longest and
costliest in state history. A ver-
dict is not expected until 1998,
attorneys said.
Because state money is al-
ready budgeted for Ng's trial,
bankrupt Orange County will be
required to pick up little of the
trial cost, according to attor-
neys. The state is also paying for
Ng's defense, which could run as
much as $3 million.
Attorneys from Orange Coun-
ty's Public Defender's Office
vowed to appeal Friday's ruling
keeping the trial in Orange Coun-
ty. They contend that Superior
Court Judge Robert R. Fitzger-
ald should be prohibited from
making any rulings in the case
until a motion to remove him is
decided.
Public defenders say Ng, a for-
mer Marine, wants the case
transferred to San Francisco
County so he can be reunited with
NG: Judge
rules that
suspect will be
tried in Orange
County. Case
was moved
from Northern
California.
the attorney who represented
him before the case was trans-
ferred to the Santa Ana court-
house.
In a motion filed last week,
Ng's defense attorneys alleged
that Fitzgerald has allowed his
desire to try the case to interfere
with Ng's right to a fair trial.
Fitzgerald, one of the county's
Please see TRIAL Page 2
TRYING TO BREAK THE 'CONTRACT'
PAUL E. RODRIGUEZH'he Orange County Register
Members of the National Treasury Employees Uni on demonstrate the House of Representatives, on Friday afternoon in front of the
against the ' Contract Wi th America,' the Republican political agenda in Federal Building on Civic Center Drive in Santa Ana.
Corona
del Mar
cliffs to
be rebuilt
ENVIRONMENT: Three
homes appear safe af-
ter the landslide. Engi-
neers hope to head off
slippage with truck-
loads of earth.
By JOHN WESTCOTT
The Orange County Register
NEWPORT BEACH Corona
del Mar's failed slope is getting a
facelift.
Crews today begin a 10-day re-
construction'of the slippery cliff
near three homes on Sandcastle
Drive, applying the first of 10,000
cubic yards of dirt to the west
side of Buck Gully.
The homeowners continue to
live in the houses, though they
say they are ready to leaye
should the slide worsen. Despite
this week's rains, the homes ap-
pear to be on solid ground for
now.
"Sometimes I wake up in the
middle of the night and hear a
strange noise," said Bob Riblett
of 974 Sandcastle Drive. "It's
very unsettling. But we're hang-
ing in there."
On March 17, Riblett and his
neighbors woke to find 200 feet of
the slope had fallen about 20 feet
into the gully, land owned by the
Irvine Co.
The reconstruction, which will
layer thick, clay-bearing soil on
top of porous, sandy soil, is a
temporary fix, said Dawn Mc-
Cormick, Irvine Co. spokeswom-
an.
"Right now we're making sure
the homes are safe," she said.
Sandy soil will speed drainage
of water, while the top layer will
block moisture from getting in,
she said.
NMG Inc. of Irvine is still in-
vestigating the cause of last
week's landslide to determine a
permanent solution.
McCormick said a possible
cause for the slippage was ex-
cess water causing the bedrock
to slip, but engineers will contin-
ue to investigate.
Penny-pinching pupils make cents
count toward trip to Disneyland
EDUCATION: The chil-
dren at Kennedy Ele-
mentary School get a
basic lesson in math.
By JOHN GITTELSOHN
The Orange County Register
SANTA ANA Math and pa-
tience.
The 780 students at John F.
Kennedy Elementary School are
learning lessons in both as they
go about collecting 1 million pen-
nies $10,000 for a trip to
Disneyland.
Now 18 months into the proj-
ect, the children are a quarter of
the way to their goal, having
amassed 250,000 pennies.
"They bring two or three
each," kindergarten teacher
Paula Caldwell said Friday.
"That's their contribution."
The students nicknamed the
"Penny Pinchers" scrounge
pennies from sidewalks, apart-
ment roofs, railroad tracks,
couches and garbage cans.
But money is scarce. Ninety-
five percent of Kennedy students
are in free-lunch programs. Few
get weekly allowances.
"Sometimes my mom gives
me money when she has it," said
fifth-grader Edgar Martinez.
"But when she don't have no
money, I don't get any."
Each Friday, the students as-
semble the week's proceeds, dol-
ing them by tens into paper cups
and by hundreds and thousands
into plastic bags. The most pen-
nies collected in a single day is
16,000.
This week, they banked 5,300
pennies $53 enough for two
tickets to the Magic Kingdom.
At this pace, fifth-grader Sam-
uel Ortega calculated, it will take
about seven years to raise
enough money for all the stu-
dents to go to Disneyland.
That has Principal Sally Mel-
ton considering a new objective.
"We might have to think about
Knott's Berry Farm, kids," she
said. "That might be in our price
range. That's a nice dream."
Mummified poultry
a lesson, not lunch
EDUCATION: Seven
chickens give their pu-
trid all to demonstrate
ancient burial practices.
By KATIE HICKOX
The Orange County Register
HUNTINGTON BEACH
Seven mummified chickens,
each gaily festooned with se-
quins and plastic pearls, took
their final journey into the after-
life sometime after the lunch bell
rang.
Nearly 270 mourners Friday
bore the dead poultry to a shal-
low grave at the corner of the
schoolyard. Throughout the brief
burial ceremony for King Klucks
I through VII, some members of
the sixth-grade class of Dwyer
Middle School tried particularly
>r ' "
hard to stand still.
As part of a monthlong study of
ancient Egypt, the kids mummi-
fied seven freshly killed chickens
and buried them in a 4-foot-deep
hole.
"These kids are going to re-
member this more than anything
else in their sixth-grade experi-
ence," said Principal Ian Collins.
Teachers stuffed the chickens
with Borax and baking soda,
sewed up all bodily cavities, and
placed the chickens in plastic
containers. As part of the study
of the Egyptian embalming pro-
cess, the kids visited the decay-
ing poultry in the basement boil-
er room every Friday to watch
the bodies turn blackish-blue and
develop a powerful, rotting odor.
"It was killer," said Justin Pe-
truna, 12. "It's just pretty wild
how it all works."
BRUCE CHAMBERS/The Orange County Register
DOLI NG IT OUT: Edgar Martinez, left, and Samual Ortega, both 11
and fifth-graders at Kennedy Elementary School in Santa Ana, on
Friday count out pennies that were collected in the past week.
Vietnamese night owls
can find Voice on KWIZ
MICHAEL GOULDINGAThe Orange County Register
CHI CKEN A LA PHARAOH: Dwyer Mi ddl e School sixth-graders
Jennifer Wong, left, and Skye Underwood transport mummified
chickens to their burial ground, actually a corner of the schoolyard.
Since the county bankruptcy
has forced the school to cut back
on extra activities, Karen Lem-
pert and three other social-stud-
ies teachers paid up to $40 each
for embalming powders and
freshly killed chickens from an
Asian poultry store. The effort
was appreciated by Marie Harri-
A
son, 45, who attended the burial
with her son Jonathan.
"They make it a hands-on ex-
perience for the kids, so they're
not just reading the books and
writing the report," Harrison
said. "The kids are actually du-
plicating what the ancient peo-
ples did."^
MEDIA: Overnight ra-
dio program will offer
news, entertainment,
English lessons and
call-in segments.
By PAUL G. ZIELBAUER
The Orange County Register
In a modest house on a residen-
tial street in unincorporated
Orange County, a group of Viet-
namese-Americans is putting the
finishing touches on a soundproof
booth smaller than most bath-
rooms. Four microphones,three
compact-disc players and one
mixing board are in place, one
high-speed computer left to go.
On April 15, Voice of Vietnam-
ese radio will begin broadcasting
an all-night mix of news, talk and
entertainment on what has be-
come the hottest Vietnamese-
language station in Orange Coun-
ty. In booking the program into
the overnight time slot, Pasade-
na-based KWIZ-FM 96.7 can-
celed two programmers and be-
came virtually all Vietnamese,
all the time.
Sandwiched between midnight
and morning news shows. Voice
of Vietnamese will connect night-
owl listeners to a fortune teller,
provide tips to immigrants bon-
ing up for their U.S. citizenship
tests, and offer English lessons
around 4 a.m. A professional psy-
chiatrist also will offer help to
listeners, program manager
Tuong Thang said.
"Our target audience is third-
shift workers and the elderly
people who have a hard time
sleeping at night," said Michael
Nguyen, one of eight Voice of
Vietnamese investors hoping to
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