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U.S. NEWS Thursday 1 November 2018

Highway worker helps find woman who spent 6 days in desert

PHOENIX (AP) — A woman The three saw a mangled Despite being somewhat
spent six days in the Arizona car entangled in a mes- lethargic and in pain, she
desert after her car veered quite tree, made their way was alert enough to open
off a highway, surviving in- to the bottom of the hill and her eyes and answer ques-
juries from the crash and checked the car. It was tions.
getting rescued after road- empty. Nobody answered Moralez said she was
way workers noticed a bro- their hollering, Moralez said. dirty from sleeping on the
ken fence, authorities said A DPS trooper arrived, and ground for a couple of days
Wednesday. by then, other members and had facial trauma —
The Department of Public of a maintenance crew likely from the accident.
Safety said two state trans- showed up. They all fanned She was airlifted to a hospi-
portation workers and a out. Moralez said his broth- tal about 15 minutes later.
rancher were corralling a er, the rancher, spotted a The woman recounted
bull on the other side of a footprint. how she was driving on U.S.
fence along a highway on The group followed the 60 on Oct. 12 when she lost In this Oct. 18, 2018, photo provided by the Arizona Department
of Public Safety is the scene where authorities say they rescued
Oct. 18 in the town of Wick- tracks for about 500 yards control of her car, accord- a seriously injured woman who spent six days in the desert after
enburg, about an hour’s (457 meters) and found ing to the trooper. The vehi- crashing her car near Wickenburg, Ariz.
drive northwest of Phoenix, a 53-year-old woman se- cle went through the fence Associated Press
when they saw the fence verely dehydrated and and dropped 50 feet (15 clining all media requests was saved,” he said in a
was unusually damaged. with serious injuries in a dry meters), landing in the tree. and did not give any de- statement.
“I said, ‘There’s tracks right riverbed. She stayed inside her car tails about her current con- Moralez said it’s a good
off the edge of the road “She was in the fetal po- for several days before try- dition. feeling to know that he
through the fence,” Zach sition, and there was no ing to walk toward some DPS Director Col. Frank Mil- helped make the differ-
Moralez, a highway opera- movement,” Moralez said. railroad tracks to find help, stead commended the ence between life and
tions technician, told The “We started asking her a but she was too weak to transportation workers and death for someone.
Associated Press. “I said, bunch of questions: ‘How make it, authorities said. the rancher. “I believe people are put in
‘Hop over that hill, I bet you long have you been here? DPS spokesman Quentin “Due to their outstanding the right place in the right
there’s a car down there.” Do you have any pain?’” Mehr said the woman is de- efforts, this woman’s life time,” he said.q

Son says he killed parents, bodies found in Illinois river

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The bod- Sheriff Brian Asbell said. she woke up, Kenny said.
ies of a college professor Ramirez has been appoint- Ramirez then wrapped the
and her husband have ed a public defender and bodies in a tarp and a tent,
been recovered from a is being held on a $3 million put them in his father’s SUV
river in central Illinois and bond. and drove about 50 miles
their 21-year-old son, who Judge Sean Donahue (80 kilometers) to the Henry
said he was “sick of his par- scheduled his arraignment County community of An-
ents” according to authori- for Nov. 29. nawan, where he dumped
ties and stabbed them to Peoria County Assistant them off a bridge into a
death, has been charged State’s Attorney Dave Ken- waterway, authorities said.
with first-degree murder. ny said during a bond hear- Peoria County sheriff’s dep-
The bodies of Susan Brill ing Tuesday that Ramirez uties found blood and signs
de Ramirez and Antonio told friends he was “sick of of a struggle in the family
Ramirez Barron, both 63, his parents” and that he home Sunday after a call
were found Tuesday in had killed them on Friday. from a concerned relative,
the Spoon River near An- Ramirez waited until his Asbell said.
nawan, resting against the parents were sleeping then The couple last reported
riverbank, Peoria County went into their bedroom to work Thursday at Brad-
Coroner Jamie Harwood at their home near Peoria, ley University in Peoria,
said. Kenny said. He used pepper This Oct. 29, 2018, booking photo provided by the Peoria where Brill de Ramirez was
Jose Ramirez was arrested spray as a distraction and County Jail in Illinois shows Matthew Roberts, who is charged an English professor and
and charged on Monday stabbed his father in the with obstruction and concealment of a homicidal death in the Ramirez Barron worked in
killings of Susan Brill de Ramirez and Antonio Ramirez Barron of
after confessing to killing stomach and neck, then Princeville, Ill. the school’s information
his parents, Peoria County stabbed his mother when Associated Press technology department. q