T H E E X A M I N ER12 SU N DAY, NOV E M BER 15, 2009
NATION
BASE ATTACK FUNERALS ROUNDUP
FBI searching backyard of
Ohio home with 11 bodies
CLEVELAND � FBI agents are digging
through the backyard of a Cleve-
land home where the remains of 11
women have been found.
The agents used rakes and shovels
Saturday in their search for evidence
in the yard of suspected serial killer
Anthony Sowell. One agent had a
tape measure, while another took
pictures and a third marked loca-
tions with orange paint.
On Friday, the FBI worked at the
house next door to Sowell's to do
X-rays, thermal imaging and other
tests.
The 50-year-old Sowell has been
accused of luring women to his
home with the promise of alcohol
or getting high. Authorities say he
then strangled them and left their
bodies in his house or buried in the
backyard. �AP
Child sex case for Mo.
family expands with arrest
LEXINGTON, MO. � The case against a
family accused of child sex abuse
expanded with the arrest of a sixth
relative -- a 72-year-old Florida man
whohadcalledtheallegationsagainst
his kin repulsive and appalling.
Darrel Wayne Mohler has been
charged with raping two children in
Missouri more than 20 years ago. His
arrest Friday came a day after he told
The AP that the alleged child abuse
by his relatives was "unspeakable."
Mohler was charged in Lafay-
ette County, Mo., with two counts
of forcible rape in 1986. Officials said
he was arrested and in custody at a
jail Ocala, Fla., near his hometown
of Silver Springs.
Five other members of the Mohler
family were charged earlier in the
week with several felonies, including
forcible sodomy, rape with a child
younger than 12 and use of a child
in a sexual performance. �AP
By Ryan J. Foley
The Associated Press
KIEL, WISCONSIN � The hundreds of
people who lined the main street of
a small Indiana city Saturday fell
solemnly silent as a white hearse
passed by on its way to the church.
Mourners streamed into a Wis-
consin gymnasium to remember
the soldier who once said she alone
could take on Osama bin Laden.
Across the country, many stood
before several flag-draped coffins
during funeral services for several
of the 13 victims of the Nov. 5 shoot-
ings at the Fort Hood Army post in
Texas.
Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal
Malik Hasan, 39, was charged on
Thursday with the shooting spree at
Fort Hood. Army investigators have
said Hasan is the only suspect and
could face additional charges.
In Plymouth, Indiana, Sheila
Ellabarger had placed two foot-
high American flags in the grass
where she watched the procession
for Army Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow.
She said her children went to school
with DeCrow and his wife -- his
high school sweetheart -- and she
knew other members of his family.
"He was killed by a terrorist in
my mind but he was still killed in
the line of duty. We owe him a debt
of gratitude, him and his family and
the other soldiers. We owe them our
lives, our freedom," she said.
During services in Norman, Okla-
homa, snapshots from U.S. Army
Spc. Jason Dean Hunt's recent wed-
ding were projected near his casket.
The 22-year-old was described as a
loving husband and family man as
well as a soldier who left a legacy of
selflessness and service.
Mourners in Kiel, Wisconsin,
packed into the high school gymna-
sium Saturday for Staff Sgt. Amy
Krueger's funeral. A visitation had
been held there Friday evening
where Krueger, 29, was remem-
bered as a determined, energetic
young woman.
She joined the U.S. Army
Reserves after the 2001 terrorist
attacks and vowed to hunt down
bin Laden. When her mother said
she couldn't do it alone, the soldier
defiantly told her, "Watch me."
Krueger was to deploy to Afghan-
istan for a second time in December
and had recently arrived at Fort
Hood for training. She had been
studying psychology at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin-Whitewater and
was a mental health specialist who
wanted to help soldiers cope with
combat stress.
"Her smile would light up any
room, her energy would envelope all
of those around her," her parents,
Jeri and David Krueger, said in a
statement. "It is that smile and that
energy that keeps us going through-
out this difficult time."
Funerals also were planned Sat-
urday for Capt. John Gaffaney, 56,
a psychiatric nurse who worked for
San Diego County, California; Pfc.
Michael Pearson, 22, of Boling-
brook, Illinois, and Pfc. Aaron
Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jor-
dan, Utah.
Utah's congressional delegation,
governor and the president of the
Mormon church were among those
expected to attend services for
Nemelka, who carried on a family
tradition by joining the Army a little
more than a year ago.
"Aaron was a man of few words
but deep feelings and a gentle dis-
position," according to an obituary
in Salt Lake City newspapers.
"His beautiful smile and cheer-
ful, fun-loving personality endeared
him to his many friends and family
members."
Soldiers killed in Fort Hood shooting are mourned
President to
Congress: Put off
Fort Hood probe
President Barack Obama
on Saturday urged Congress
to hold off on any investigation
of the Fort Hood rampage until
federal law enforcement and
military authorities have com-
pleted their probes into the
shootings at the Texas Army
post, which left 13 people dead.
On an eight-day Asia trip,
Obama turned his attention
home and pleaded for lawmak-
ers to "resist the temptation to
turn this tragic event into the
political theater." He said those
who died on the nation's largest
Army post deserve justice, not
political stagecraft.
"The stakes are far too
high," Obama said in a video
and Internet address released
by the White House while the
president was flying from
Tokyo to Singapore, where
Pacific Rim countries were
meeting.
ArmypsychiatristMaj.Nidal
Malik Hasan, 39, was charged
on Thursday with the shooting
spree at Fort Hood last week.
Army investigators have said
Hasan is the only suspect and
could face additional charges.
� AP
AP PHOTO/JEFFREY PHELPS
Members of the Patriot Guard stand outside the building during visitation for Sgt.
Amy Krueger at Kiel High School in Kiel, Wis. on Friday. Krueger was a shooting
victim at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas. The soldier joined the U.S. Army Reserves
after 2001, vowing to hunt down Osama bin Laden.
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