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* I ???I I 1 'Mommie' Personalized Home Not So Dear Coaching Cookin' ? page 7 ? page 12 ? page 7 ' GAMECOCK LXXI, No. 26 University of South Carolina Wednesday, September 30,1981 Porra Ti WB V 1 Susoect Clair _jjj M ? ii ai w iv ? i AlVAC Dfltnil _ VI V w BTVI By MARK PLATTE Lditoi Donald Hpv Pprrv thp man a^neoH ir? Hm kidnapping, rape and murder of USC professor Mary Heimberger last March, testified for almost four hours yesterday in Richland County General Sessions Court, insisting he did not kill Heimberger. Perry wove a bizarre story, in which he told the 16 - member jury that he was m threatened by investigating Richland County Sheriff's Department officers. He said he fabricated one explanation of the Heimberger incident, contracted a form of amnesia and then was able to remember everything after a doctor at the State Hospital gave him a shot. The 20-year-old Perry told defense attorney Gaston Fairey that a friend, Larry DpIziarh nipknampd "nn-Hnc " mm mitted the offenses for which Perry was charged. 0 He said he and DeLoach were riding around the parking lot near Two Notch Road when Heimherepr and annthfir woman exited from the mall. The women parted and Heimberger entered her car, according to Perry. DeLoach charged the USC education professor and pushed her into the car, causing her to hit her head on the door. with HeimDerger ana ueixmcn in one car and Perry following in another, the two vehicles entered Decker Boulevard and proceeded to Park lane Road. They drove down Highway 321 to Crane Creek Road and Unn r\ o inn r\f r*/->orl i n f lin T iii^u iu ? oi/Viiuu ut iuuu 111 iii^ uiiltuildllll C area. The two were separated when the first car made a quick turn down a dirt road. Perry said he finally found DeLoach and that DeLoach was asking Heimberger to perform a sex act. When she refused, Deloache told Perry to have sex with her. When Perry refused, ^ DeLoach threatened to kill him with a pistol W Per rv owned. Perry said Heimberger finally consented to the act and that DeLoach also had sex with her. He said Heimberger stayed behind him for protection and that DeLoach told him to search for the kevs to thp nmfps?>r'c s rm ^ car. While Perry searched, DeLoach took Heimberger's belt and began strangling ner, according 10 testimony. When he let go, she began to run. Perry said Delx>ach fired two shots from the pistol, hitting her both ^ timffi I )pl ililf'h nflpfnpmoH fllr?hn? '" -I ^iVl 1U1 HIVU IU1UICI It WU ^ acts on the dead l>ody, Perry said. I)elx>ach drove off in Heimberger's car, ' and Periry was left with his car stuck in the ? J i.? J '?a i ' HIM**. ci i y ?t?iu nc ineu ior iwo nours 10 gel his car out before he surrendered and made his way home. istifies Oi nsInnocence, s Of Incident PERKY was to undergo crossexamination from Fifth Circuit Solicitor James C. Anders at 5:30 p.m. yesterday, after Gamecock deadlines. During the past three days of hearings, sheriff's deputies testified that Perry told them the shooting was an accident. Perrv said yesterday that he lied to the deputies because they had threatened to implicate Perry's wife in the murder. "They said they could charge Miriam with murder,' a solemn, unemotional Perry said. "I took bits of the conversation and pieced it together. They promised me I wouldn't see my wife if I didn't sign a statement. I wouldn't sien." OUT OF" the jury's presence, Perry told presiding Judge Julius Baggett that DeLoach came to the State Hospital on Bull Street, where Perry was admitted for nsvohiatrir PvamiriAhnn nnH tr? I > ? MaaM va vv kill him. "He asked me how am I doing and then he asked if his name came up about anything," Perry testified. "He said 'remember not to call my name up because I know where your family is and I have access of getting to them.' " Perry said that a "Dr. Morgan" gave him a <;hnt '4 \17 i f Vl cnmo flltiH nutvinn/1 .? -. w*?w tv avu uvi A A v-> I1U1V4 gJUH I ^/VVi 111 IU 111^ vein." He said that after receiving the shot he recalled all the events of March 5, the day j of the murder, and that he came in contact with attorneys Ed Mullineaux and Gaston Fairev. Earlier yesterday, Richland County Sheriff's Department investigator Terry Barrett said Perry had originally "said he shot her one time by accident and that he didn't take her clothes off." Poirmi I 1 -1 a uuvjf vi in\.i<.cu Duiit'ii, ill' ilet(i provoked Perry into confessing to acts he didn't commit. Other witnesses called to the stand were Sgt. Richard McGee, FBI's Martin Babyak, who examined samples of clothes and car < seats tor blood types; and Robert Williamson, a youth who lives near the scene of the murder. pkkky began his testimony with a description of his family life and brothers J and sisters. He told of his marriage to Miriam on Nov. 21,1979, after the couple had met two or three weeks earlier. The couple v lived with their vourn* child in a trailer opposite Columbia Mali . kno :r n?i ??,.u i nc: v.uui i uad iiui uuici iiiiiiuu it ut:iiUcitii has been questioned or if he does indeed exist. Perry's twin sister, Debra, told the Gamecock that DeLoach was present in the courtroom. M nilllii Di n* UIU\H/SX S't Donald Ray Perry, accused in the ra Heimberger, takes the witness stand (at attorney Gaston Fairey. & n* nn/ x rin # kb ' I ?1 k > fo. tfelaMlJC 5IBUII ?H 1 hL pe and murder of USC professor Mary love). Below, Perry confers with defense ? " ' ' | f*-'l SUM Art by MKf HSMfR