Inmate admits killings before his execution

Inmate admits killingsbefore his execution
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A death row inmate confessed more than a dozen killings just before he was executed Wednesday night for the slaying of a grocery store owner in 1993.
After he was strapped to the death chamber gurney, Billy Frank Vickers, 58, admitted for the first time that he shot Phillip Kinslow during a botched robbery in 1993. He was being executed for that crime.
Vickers also took responsibility for more than a dozen other killings. He said there were "several more that I had done or that I had been a part of, and I'm sorry but I am not sure how many. There must be a dozen or 14, I believe, all total."
He mentioned no names, except in the case of a former Texas oil millionaire who was accused and later acquitted of killing his stepdaughter in 1976.
"One I would like to clear up is Cullen Davis -- where he was charged with shooting his wife," Vickers said, without elaborating or taking clear responsibility for the slaying.
Cullen Davis was accused of killing his second wife's 12-year-old daughter at his Fort Worth mansion. Priscilla Davis, his second wife, was wounded and her boyfriend was killed. Cullen Davis was later acquitted of murder-for-hire charges in a separate case.
Jack Strickland, a former prosecutor who worked on the Davis case, said Wednesday night that he had never heard of Vickers and doubted that he was involved in the shooting.
Girl drowns in toilet
LONDON, Ky. -- A 10-month-old girl drowned after falling into a toilet in her family's home, police said.
Brianna Morgan, who had just begun learning to crawl and walk, got into the bathroom, then pulled herself on top of her mother's jewelry box, which was on the floor, police said. She apparently leaned over and fell headfirst into the toilet, which held 6 inches of water.
Brianna's 10-year-old brother discovered her and pulled her out of the toilet as another brother dialed 911, WLEX-TV reported. Their mother, who had been in the basement, tried CPR but couldn't revive her daughter.
Saudi agents killed
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Suspected terrorists exchanged fire with Saudi security forces raiding a house in Riyadh today, killing several Saudi agents, an Interior Ministry official said. One suspect was arrested.
The shootout came amid heightened security as about 2 million Muslims from around the world flocked to the Saudi kingdom for the start of the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, or hajj.
Security forces had received a tip about the house in an eastern section of the Saudi capital and came under fire when they arrived, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
He said one suspected terrorist was captured and an unspecified number of security agents were killed. The official gave no further details.
Cops charged in slayings
MEXICO CITY -- Thirteen Mexican state police officers were arrested in the killings of 11 people found buried around a safe house for drug traffickers near the U.S. border, a federal official said today.
Federal Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha also said at least four other officers, including a state commander, were on the run.
The officers were arrested in northern Mexico and brought to Mexico City.
The 11 victims apparently were bound, gagged and suffocated or shot by suspected drug traffickers, then buried in shallow graves at the house in Ciudad Juarez.
The bodies were found over the weekend, and the house appears to be tied to the Vicente Carrillo drug gang.
Sore losers arrested
CONWAY, Ark. -- The party game wasn't the only thing taboo.
Three men were arrested on felony charges after a game of Taboo went awry at a Conway home.
Officers were called to the home Sunday after two men threatened others with guns because they were losing the game, in which one teammate gives clues about certain subject matter, but using certain words is taboo.
One of the people in the apartment told police the men were yelling and cussing and threatened them with handguns.
Officers searched a car at the scene for weapons and found hypodermic needles and drug paraphernalia.
The men, ages 21 and 23, were arrested on suspicion of felony aggravated assault. A 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance and felony possession of drug paraphernalia.
Associated Press