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Tuesday, December 1, 1998 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada A3 Father murder fifea in ft oim cnai 1 1 -TO-TW- rv Sentinel reported today. She was charged with misdemeanor obstruction of justice, sheriffs CapL Steve Corbett said. Hundreds of volunteers and police officers had spent five days searching for Kayla in Clermont, an agricultural community 20 miles west of Orlando. Pictures of the girl were mailed out to 2,000 Texaco gas stations around the country. "I dont know why he didnt just admit it in the beginning and spare us all the trouble," said Lawrence MacPhee, a volunteer searcher.

Kayla had been living with Adamses and their infant child since April when she left the custody of her mother, Elizabeth McKean. Court records indicated Ms. McKean turned over custody of Kayla to Adams' parents, but a group that helps parents of missing children said the child wound up with Adams sister. Ms. McKean, a telemarketer, was trying to win back custody of Kayla after learning the girl had been stay CLERMONT, Fla.

(AP) Richard Adams sounded calm Thanksgiving morning when he told a 911 operator that his 6-year-old daughter was missing-- "My daughter hasn't come back yet," he said. "She should have come back home two hours ago." But police on Monday said Adams admitted to killing the shy girl the day before Thanksgiving, punching and throwing Kayla McKean against a wall during a fit of rage and then dumping her body in a remote area 40 miles from home. Adams also told police he may have used a wooden "discipline" paddle on his daughter, according to an arrest affidavit Adams, 24, bowed his head and appeared to cry this morning during an arraignment on a charge of murder. He was denied bond. Kayla's stepmother, Marcie Adams, led investigators to the girl's shallow grave near a creek in the Ocala National Forest on Monday, the Orlando ing with the father, whom she never married, according to Child Watch.

Child Watch president Don Wood said Adams told Ms. McKean, "You'll never see Kayla again if you do that" Ms. McKean gave up custody of Kayla while living in a shelter for battered women. She was there trying to get back on her feet after fleeing an abusive relationship with a boyfriend. Wood said.

Sheriffs officials have said state social workers investigated Adams on at least three occasions. Court records show Adams has a history of violent behavior dating back to 1992 and has served jail time for assault and other crimes. As he was escorted in handcuffs to the Lake County Jail, Adams admitted he had a problems controlling his anger and said he had sought help from social services workers. "Accidents happen," he said. "I asked for help for my anger problem and they didnt help me." if -4 (W' Two teens in Jmchig an AMinaut Pm Chuck Alboth of Arizona Sportsman in Phoenix holds an over-under shotgun which is one of those included under a provision of the Brady gun bill which took effect Monday at the store in Phoenix.

Alboth said "I'm not up in arms over this." Under the new system, the number of checks performed will double because a new law requires background approvals not just for handgun buyers but also those who buy rifles and shotguns. An estimated 12.4 million firearms of all kinds are sold each year in the United States. Gun buyers, sellers fired up by new background checks accused Muskegon Chronicle. "There was little sign of struggle, no tying up," Tague said. "But the shooting occurred with a definite plan of shooting all five." Some of the bodies may have been dragged through the house, he said.

Two bodies were found in a small room off the garage, another in a room off the basement and a fourth in an upstairs bathroom. The Chronicle said Privacky was ordered to take medication as part of his punishment for stealing beer in 1996, but juvenile feurt papers did not identify the medication or the reason it was prescribed. Doreena Schaeffer, a cashier at the Dalton EZ Mart who knew the family for a dozen years, said that the Pri-vackys were active in school affairs and that her son played basketball with Seth Privacky. "The kids were well-mannered. I never had any problem with my son playing with Seth," she said.

Contact the tAKOuauy 9 Free Press for Subscription vx-vriU today. 738-3 118 slayings Mil records. The FBI says that once the system is working smoothly, approvals should take just three minutes. Activists on both sides of the gun control debate have serious problems with the background checks. The National Rifle Association filed suit in U.S.

District Court in Washington on Friday contending a decision by the Justice Department to maintain a list of all people who apply to buy guns not just those found to have committed felonies or have other problems in their backgrounds violates federal law, including the Brady Act "This is about privacy and freedom from government snooping in our lives," said Wayne LaPierre. the NRA's executive vice president. He said the Brady Act requires the government to destroy all records compiled in checking the backgrounds of would-be gun purchasers except those of people found ineligible to own guns. It also prohibits establishing any national gun registry, he said. And groups like Handgun Control say the new law is too lax because it decreases the time officials have to research a potential buyer.

Under the old law, they had as long as five days if they needed it Under the new law, they have three. Federal law bans gun purchases by people convicted or under indictment on felony charges, fugitives, the mentally ill, those with dishonorable military discharges, those who have renounced U.S. citizenship, illegal aliens, illegal drug users and those convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors or under domestic violence restraining orders. State laws add other categories. States had the option of running the system themselves, or having the federal government do it for free.

Sixteen states chose to do it themselves; 10 others, will run their own handgun checks and let the FBI handle other purchases. Gun-control activists dont like that 24 states are having the FBI do the background checks for them. Federal officials don't have access to such background information as restraining orders and involuntary commitments to mental hospitals. 12 mr-mi DALTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -An 18-year-old was arrested Monday and accused along with a friend of methodically shooting to death five people his father, mother, grandfather, brother and his brother's girlfriend.

Authorities said the shootings were stretched out across Sunday afternoon, with the victims probably shot one by one at the family's home. The crime was discovered around midnight Sunday, when the body of the father, an elementary school teacher, was found in his driveway in this rural community. "The house was scattered with bodies. There was blood everywhere," Prosecutor Tony Tague said. "It's difficult to imagine what possesses 18-year-olds to do something like this." Seth Stephen Privacky, 18, eluded searchers through the night and was arrested Monday afternoon in a barn a mile from his home.

Earlier in the day, police using tracking dogs arrested 18-year-old Steven Wallace, who had been seen running out of the woods not far from the home, Tague said. "What we have here is two young individuals who got involved in a very bad situation and attempted to cover it up," Tague said. Both men were to be arraigned Tuesday on murder charges. Killed were Privacky's parents, Stephen Privacky, 50, and Linda A. Privacky, 49; his grandfather John J.

Privacky, 78; his brother, Jedediah, 19; and Jedediah's girlfriend, April A. Boss, 19. The killings were discovered after Ms. Boss' parents went to the house to look for their daughter. Investigators believe the killings took place over an extended period of time, with the victims perhaps forced to stay in the house as each was slain, State Police Sgt Gary Milesjold the nREsm James Brady, the former White House spokesman for whom the Brady Law is named, said the lack of access to some background information is a flaw in the law.

He and his Sarah, who became gun control activists after he was wounded in the 1981 attempt on President Reagan's life, also said a waiting period should be restored to prevent impulse shootings such as suicides. Gun dealers say they and their customers were confused by the new system, and many had trouble getting through to the FBI's approval hot line. "Somewhere late morning or early afternoon, the complete system went down. The phones literally wouldn't answer," said Barry Perry of Perry's Gun Shop in Wendell, N.C. "I don't know if it was a computer overload or too many incoming calls." The FBI did not respond to requests for an interview.

At Gary's Gun Shop in Sioux Falls, S.D., owner Gary Salmen was planning to put in a third phone line to handle the background-checking calls. "We're going to end up with one person at least part time spending all their time on the phone," he said. Others in the gun business said they find the system oppressive, even if it eventually does work smoothly. "The unfortunate part is it affects the people that probably perhaps it shouldn't affect" said Bill Gleason, a salesman at Dave's Guns in Aurora, Colo. Most people who buy rifles and shotguns are sportsmen and levelheaded people "certainly not criminals." mm ace FOm WAX Purchase andor Tire.

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It was the first day for a new federal system that requires the check for all firearms purchases not just handguns. "I think it's stupid for the simple reason that robbers and murderers are not going to walk into a gun store and buy a gun," said Niday, 54. "It's silly to me," added Petty, 27. "It's a way for the government to find out what the honest people have in their homes." The men waiting in the western Ohio village of Ginghamsburg were among many discontented gun buyers across the nation Monday as technical delays slowed things down. In Holden, Maine, gun dealer Ralph McLeod said he made 25 calls to the computerized background check system and got constant busy signals Monday morning.

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