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details of the account remain covered until revealed Juanita Deckard was eighteen and an honour student; Linda Needham was sixteen, a junior at Plato High School and a cheerleader; Bates was eighteen and Wesley Hawkins nineteen, both honour students. Driving south on South Gate Road inside Fort Leonard Wood, they were stopped by a military policeman in an International Scout. He told them the car matched the description of a vehicle used in an armed robbery at the Southgate Texaco station off the post, asked for identification, made the boys get out and handcuffed them, and put all four into his Scout.

As the boys sat in the back seat he drew his .45 pistol and shot each of them once. He told Juanita not to look back and told Linda to say nothing. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Linda was made to sit between the two wounded boys and Juanita sat in the front. After about ten minutes they reached a game warden's cabin in the woods. He built a fire in a stove, made the girls stand against the wall, and then ordered them to undress. Over roughly three and a half to four hours he forced them to perform sexual acts on each other and on him and raped both of them, keeping the .45 in his hand or beside him throughout. He went out for wood several times and pretended to be tending to the boys, and told them he was not really an MP but a soldier who was deserting and leaving for Canada the next day. He said that if they did everything he told them they would not be hurt, and that he knew the ground so well they could not escape.

At about 4.20 a.m. he said he was behind schedule and drove all four to a snowy clearing. He ordered the girls out at gunpoint to face the other way and shot them. Juanita was hit in the arm and the chest and felt faint; Linda fell. He dragged Linda into the woods; she had been pretending to be dead, and when he noticed she was alive he shot her at close range. He kicked snow over Juanita, kicked her with his boot to see if she would move, and buried her in snow. He then walked Tony Bates out of the Scout and shot him. He stayed in the area about thirty minutes before driving away.

Juanita waited until she could no longer hear the vehicle, called the others by name and got no answer. this part of the story is covered for now She then walked about six miles through eight inches of snow, with snow packed inside her jeans, to a house on Highway 17. Around 12.30 p.m. she knocked at the Eckleberry home. Mrs Eckleberry, who had her two young children in the house, brought her in, warmed her at the wood stove and helped her out of her wet clothes, seeing two bullet wounds. A ring fell from Juanita's sock and she said it was her boyfriend's, and that he was dead in the woods. Juanita asked to telephone friends; Douglas Hawkins, Wesley's brother, and Herschel Needham, Linda's father, came to collect her, and it was Needham who finally used the telephone to call the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

J.B. King, then a trooper and later sheriff, was sent to a nearby base camp to look into what was thought to be a matter of runaways. He found Juanita at the roadside, interviewed her and radioed details back. She described the Scout and a number like 327. At the briefing an MP sergeant arrived in a Scout numbered 327; King looked inside and saw blood in the back seat and a bullet hole in the tailgate. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now That afternoon he checked out another .45 and disappeared. In the evening he telephoned another MP and asked to be collected.

The FBI and CID set up teams. details of the account remain covered until revealed They met him near his car in the woods; he had circled behind them and came out of the dark, holding his pistol. He said he knew he had done something bad but could not remember what, that he had bad headaches, and that he had thought about shooting himself. After about thirty-five minutes he ejected the round from the chamber and laid the pistol on the dirt road. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

Investigators found his fingerprints and Juanita's on the cabin's bunk bed and stove, two pairs of handcuffs he had signed out, saying he was going to play supercop, and his signed transactions for the pistol, ammunition and Scout. Bullets and casings from the scene matched the pistol issued to him. In his own car they found a pubic hair from one of the girls, though she had never been in it. Autopsies showed Hawkins died instantly from a shot through the heart; Bates's first wound was not fatal and he was killed later. Linda Needham, 5 foot 2 and 90 pounds, had snow frozen in her hair and around her eyes, which melted and ran like tears under the mortuary lights.

The defence was insanity. this part of the story is covered for now State psychiatrists found no psychosis, and Dr Herbert Spiegel, who had studied hypnosis for 37 years, called the whole performance a charade. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

In 1981 the families sued the federal government, seeking $750,040 for the Hawkins family, $600,000 for the Needhams and $501,815 for the Bates family. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now