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Monday, January 24, 2000 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada A9 Man killed by son himself a Idler Tape reveals Kinkel believed he had 'no choice' in shootings involved in the case and sealed case records. Abbatangelo indicated the secretive nature of the hearing involved "something that happened in the jail" and affected the judge's decision to release the teen on house arrest Nevada Press Association attorney Kevin Doty argued that Thursday the disappearance of the elder Pope's baby daughter was one of his toughest cases. "Basically what we had was a child who was missing, everything gone, no explanation," Schillberg said. Shortly before Christmas 1962, the girl's grandparents told police that Pope and his wife had advised them Conan Pope said he opened fire when he opened the door to his room and saw his father going toward his sister's room with a broomstick in hand. LAS.

VEGAS (AP) A Las Vegas man killed by his teen-age son was convicted of murdering his baby daughter in Washington more than 37 years ago. Conan Pope, 15, charged as an adult with murder in the shooting death of his father, Frank Enos Pope, 62, is the half-brother of the 11-month-old girl who was slain in 1962. Her body was never found. The girl's mother was divorced from Pope long ago. In a copyrighted story, the Las Vegas ReviewJaurnal identified the girl as Sandra.

Conan Pope has said he was defending his 16-year-old sister, Desiree Pope, when he shot his father with a Winchester lever-action rifle on Jan. 6. According to police reports, the teen-ager told investigators his father began throwing and smashing dishes and ordered the two children into their rooms when he came home to a dirty kitchen. Conan Pope said he opened fire when he opened the door to his room and saw his father going toward his sister's room with a broomstick in hand. On Friday, Justice of the Peace Tony Abbatangelo ruled in a closed hearing that Conan Pope would remain on house arrest pending a preliminary hearing.

The judge also issued a gag order on all parties tacted by a woman who said her new neighbor had been talking over coffee about the murder of a child in another state. She let a detective listen to another coffee conversation in which Pope's wife talked of feeling afraid of her husband and guilty about her daughter's death. Pope's wife wound up giving the following account against him in court Pope got angry one night after the baby started crying and went into the room. After the sound of slaps and more crying, the girl fell silent and he asked his wife to come check on her, saying she apparently had smothered in her blankets. The child had bruises on her face.

Pope wrapped the girl in blankets, placed her in the trunk of the family car and drove his wife and a son also not named in the newspaper article into the mountains. There they placed the baby in a shallow grave. Other witnesses testified that Pope had often beaten his daughter and held her underwater in the bathtub until she nearly drowned, court records show. Charged with first-degree murder, he was convicted of second-degree murder and began serving a prison term in 1968 after exhausting his appeals. Records show he was paroled in 1972.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) As Kip Kinkel surveyed the scene of his carnage a blood-stained high school cafeteria he offered few answers to police about his actions that left two classmates dead. In a just-released police videotape made hours after the May 21, 1998, shooting spree, the teen-ager hangs his head when Detective Al Warthen, in an almost parental voice of admonishment asks: "Why did you do this?" "I had no other choice," Kinkel responds quietly. The footage, released Thursday, captures none of the violence that occurred in the Thurston High School cafeteria, but hints of the brutality left behind. Blood smears the white tile floors.

A body covered in a white sheet lies near a long picnic table, a set of headphones by its side. Books, backpacks even shoes lie abandoned. In the grainy videotape, excerpts of which were featured in a recent PBS documentary, Kinkel is in handcuffs with a police jacket slung over his shoulders. His plastic, police-issue sandals shuffle along the floor. Kinkel, then-15, nods and murmurs not to buy Christmas presents for the child nor to ask about what happened to her.

Investigators searched the family home but found only a hospital identification band from her birth. The Popes refused to talk even after being arrested, charged with killing the girl and ordered by judges to produce the missing child as part of a civil action to rescind their parental rights. Eventually the charges were withdrawn and Pope and his wife moved away, first to Boston and later to California. Police in California were con before hearings in criminal cases can be closed to the public, there must be a finding by the judge that a defendant's fair trial rights would be adversely impacted by a public forum. Abbatangelo said there may be such an impact but he primarily was ruling that there needs to be privacy in this "very narrow issue" because of Conan Pope's age.

"The privacy issues far outweigh the public's right to know," the judge declared. Meanwhile, in Everett, former Snohomish County Prosecutor Bob Schillberg said one-word answers to Warthen's questions as they retrace his steps from the spot near the tennis courts where he parked his mother's Ford Explorer, through the school's hallways, to the As they stop in the breezeway, Kinkel tells Warthen he didn't focus on faces as he pulled the trigger and wasn't targeting anyone in particular. "It was a blur," he says. "I told one kid he should probably leave." Warthen asks, "Did any of these students make you upset or hurt you or anything?" "No," answered Kinkel, who appears emotionally exhausted. The boy's quiet, videotaped answers contrast starkly with his stuttering sobs as he confesses to killing his parents in an audiotaped interview with Warthen three hours earlier.

Kinkel had killed his father, Bill, after returning with him from school after being expelled for bringing the gun. He dragged his father's body into the bathroom and covered it with a sheet "I didnt want to," he says on the audiotape when Warthen asks him about that shooting. "I loved my dad." Regarding his mother, Faith, who he shot several times in the family's garage, he says: "My dad kept saying how embarrassed she was going to be (about his expulsion) and how horrible I was. I couldn't let my mom feel like that" Kinkel said he turned on the sion to "keep me company," but stayed up all night talking to some of his friends and trying to decide what to do. "I tried so hard to kill myself," he Moments before the audiotaped interview, Kinkel had lunged at Warthen with a knife he had taped to his ankle.

Officers missed it when searching him. "I wanted you to shoot me," Kinkel told the detective during the interview. "I just want to die." Kinkel, now 17, pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 112 years in prison without parole. During his sentencing hearing, experts testified he was psychotic, probably a paranoid schizophrenic, and deeply depressed. Woman killed by bomb feared stalker i.

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