SON ADMITS MURDERS Parents Wouldn’T Accept Call, So He Killed Them
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ManrfeatrrManchester — A City o( Village Charm Hrralft Friday. July 3. 1987 ho SON ADMITS MURDERS Parents wouldn’t accept call, so he killed them ... page 2 Texas boxcar is death oven 18 illegal aliens die, one escapes ... page 3 la c ^ c a can beat the rap Chrysler scam leaves dealers unfazed... page 4 CL&P boost will hit home Utility to seek 2% hike for residences ... page 8 WELCOME HOME An unidantifled woman graeta a young crowman from APpiMie the USS Stark as the crew arrived at home base in Mayport, Fla., Thuraday Story on page 3. Need money? Herald columnist gives it away on Thursday! SNAFU by Bnic* B«altl« A refused collect call leads Liquor stores to parents’ murder in Darien count on 3rd Bv Andrew Yurkovskv By Linda Stowell Herald Reporter ThB Anoclated Press Those who can sell a fifth on the Fourth say the third DARIEN — A 20-year-old Darien will be the first for thirst. man confessed Thursday to killing For the Arst time, liquor stores in the state will be his adoptive parents because they open on July 4, a state and federal holiday which falls refused to pay minor hospital bills on Saturday this year. But most Manchester area and accept a collect call from him. liquor stores surveyed Thursday reported that they police said. expect that Friday will be a bigger^day for selling A' booze. .'JO Patrick Campbell was charged Gary Rounseville, president of M A R Liquors on with two counts of felony murder in Tolland Turnpike, said business will probably be slow the bludgeoning deaths of Kenneth qn Saturday because most consumers are unaware Campbell. 56. and Anna May ■that package stores will be open for July Fourth. Campbell. 59. whose bodies were Under a law passed in 1982, liquor stores are allowed found Wednesday dragged info the to be open for business when July Fourth falls on a '"Dad,' he said, 'how do you expect me to backyard of theirTJarien home and Saturday. That means liquor can be sold on July use the pool with all that watei ;n-1t?...'" set on fire, police said. Fourth every seven years. Campbell confessed several Rounsville said he expects sales to be good on hours after his arrest Thursday Thursday and Friday. He said Saturday’s opening Connecticut Weather morning following a 15-mile car llrobably won’t affect overall sales. chase with state police through “ The pie is so big. it’s Just a matter of how it’s cut several western Connecticut towns. IB? V f ..41P.” he said. “ Consumption isn’t going to go up just APptioto D^ause we’re open the extra day.” Central, Eastern Interior. Southwest Interior: Darien police Chief John Jordan said. » My. 'rae Saturday opening is an optional one for package Fnday, cloudy with a 30 percent of showers, high Members of the media look over a found early Thursday morning when storVowners. While some stores will keep regular around 75. wind southeast 10 to 15 mph, Friday night He was held on $250,000 bond they apparently died of asphyxiation in hours that day, others will open later or close earlier mostly cloudy with a low around 70. Fourth of July boxcar in Sierra Blanca, Texas, about 90 pending arraignment Monday in m - \ the airtight car. than usual. For instance. Shop Rite Liquor Store on weekend, mostly sunny warm and humid with a 30 Stamford Superior Court. He also miles southeast of El Paso, whore the Spencer Street will be open from 9 a.m. tO/8 p.m., while percent chance of afternoon showers each day. high in faces charges of burglary, arson bodies of 18 male Mexican aliens were M A R Liquors will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the mid 80s with overnight lows in the upper 60s. and larceny. An employee at the Shop Rite Liquor Store on West Coastal, East Coastal; Friday, cloudy with a 40 Jordan said Campbell “ has given Spencer Street echoed Rounsville’s prediction that percent of showers, high 75 to 80, wind south 10 to 15 a statement admitting to the Friday’s sales will be greater than ^ tu rd a y’s. But mph. Friday night, mostly cloudy with a low around 70. crimes.” July Fourth should be a better-than-average Saturday. Fourth of July weekend, mostly sunny warm and humid Boxcar becomes death oven State police spokesman Sgt. he said. with a 30 percent chance of afternoon showers each Robert Slattery said Campbell was Ross Burba, a worker at Six A Forty Four Package •day. high jn the mfd 80s with overnight lows in the AP photo upper 60s. arrested after, a car chase in Kent Store in Bolton, said he. too. expects business to be good around 11:30 a.m. Patrick Campbell, 20, is being taken from the Litchfield for 18 Mexican illeg A aliens on Friday. The bodies of Campbell's adop State Police Barracks Thursday after being captured and Burba, who will be working Ob Saturday, was asked if tive parents were discovered about he expected a busy day. “ Hopefully not.” he answered. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday by their charged with the murder of his adoptive parents, SIERRA BLANCA. Texas (AP) — Eighteen illegal The store may close at 6 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. if aliens trapped in a locked, steel-walled boxcar were Lottery Winners natural daughter in thebackyardof Kenneth and Anna May Campbell of Darien. business is slow, Burba said. their home. Jordan said. found dead in stifling 120-degree temperatures Milton K. Adams, the owner of Adam’s Big Country He said the daughter, Jill Camp Thursday In what authorities called' a botched Liquors in Coventry, said predicting sales on July was staying in Danbury either at a the house through a window, smuggling effort. Connecticut daily Thursday: 769. bell, 23, picked up a hose to douse shelter for the homeless or in a tent Fourth would be difficult. “ I don’t have the faintest Play Four: 4595. although the home hadn't been A 19th man survived by using a spike to punch a hole the bodies, which were at the edge he pitched near a mall. idea,” he said. of the woods about 25 feet behind the ransacked and nothing appeared to through the Aoor andbreathe throu^ the opening, said Adams said, however, that overall sales for this house, then called the fire Police said Jill Camptoll told be missing. Jordan said. Mike Williams, a spokesman forthe U S. Border Patrol Independence Day weekend might be greater than in El Paso. department. authorities of a history of strained “ It's possible it started out as a usual because Saturday’s opening will give consumers A sledgehammer and a hatchet relations between her parents and “ They appear to have gotten excessively hot. Some a chance to buy items they forgot to get on Friday. Index burglary, but in any event, it turned appeared to have gone into convulsions, evidenced by recovered at the home may have their adopted son. and that Camp into a double homicide," he said. Daniel Contreras, owner of the Oak Street Package been used to murder the couple. bell was "going downhill and nasal bleeding in their mouths, and they were Store, was optimistic about the weekend’s business, dehydrated.” said William Harrington, assistant chief AHuirn 90 1 nm l Jordan said. resentful of the family. ” The bodies were set on Are in the but he said that sales depend on the weather. O h itiia riM A He said police began Wednesday basement of the house, then patrol agpnt for the Border Patrol. Some package store workers said they would prefer 48-49 Kenneth Campbell was a stock RiifiinM H 1R.17 O pinion 1A.1K looking for Patrick Caihpbell and brought outside and set ablaze “ There's blood on the floor," Williams said. "Some not to work on Saturday, but Adams said that being a broker with the brokerage firm of Churches 40.^1 5%Aninr OitiFAn* ia for Mrs. Campbell's car. which was again. Jordan said. of their tongues are diewed. their mouths are chewed. businessman means doing business. Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & riM fifiiu i 4 9 ^ 7 fipnrt* missing. It's a gruesome sight.” “ I don’t mind a bit. I think it's foolish if you don’t Smith Inc., according to a 1986 rn m in * .■M-.'tO n S /W nrM 10.1.Q He said a man was seen speeding A neighbor said she didn't know The aliens had boarded an eastbound Missouri work on the Fourth.” . directory of Darien, a wealthy r:nnn«/^tlc<it _ 7.0 Weekend Plus Magazine from the home in Mrs. Campbell's the victims well. PaciAc freight train late Wednesday afternoon at El suburb about 35 miles fropi New FntnrtAinmnnt 20,37 Pullout 21-36 car about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Paso, about 90 miles west of Sierra Blanca on the York City. "They were always cheerful, and Texas-Mexico border. Williams said. They apparently Jordan said Patrick Campbell . ‘ 'rf stopped to talk when I saw them out hadn't lived with his parents. He were making their way to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Police believe the killer entered on the street.” Lillian Rein said. Stark’s crew he said. ^ ... The freight train apparently stayed on a siding IMattrlipatfr HfraUi Wednesday •night and was delayed for some mechanical problem, he said. returns home USPS 327-500 VOL. CVI, No.