Burroughs yesterday said he would not comment on Earman's allegations. Earman accused Arlington police and Burroughs of influencing Michigan authorities to make the arrest and hold him on $25,000 bail. In an interview with the Washington Post earlier this week, Earman said he had been in Michigan visiting friends, and wanted it known that the charges there which were publicized in Washington, had been dropped. He had served more than five years in Virginia prison after being convicted for his part in the 1968 Beltway bulgaries in the Washington suburbs. and charged with breaking and entering, but those charges were subsequently dropped. He appeared briefly in Arlington General District Court yesterday, and his case was continued until next week so he could get a lawyer.Īccording to family sources, Earman had been despondent about being unable to get steady work.Įarman, 35, a powerfully built, bespectacled man, has been staying primarily with his parents in Falls Church and living off unemployment benefits and odd jobs as a gardemer and tennis instructor, according to sources close to the family.Ī month ago Earman was arrested in Stanton, Mich. Marshall Coleman ordered state police into Arlington to investigate the dispute and months later closed the case after state troopers concluded Burroughs was not guilty of any criminal conduct.Įarman's arrest took him by surprise, according to sources close to his family, and apparently indicated that prosecutor Burroughs and county police have resolved some of their differences over the case.Įarman yesterday was being held on $2,000 bond in the Arlington jail, where he spent nearly four months last year awaiting trial. Their dispute reached the point that police complained to the Virginia state attorney general's office that Burroughs was impeding their progress. The sudden arrest of Earman is the latest in a number of bizarre events that have marked the murder investitation.īurroughs and the Arlington police had been at odds for months over how to proceed on the case. Earman was indicted shortly afterward, but was found not guilty after a two-week trial that ended last October. The couple was found shot to death in May 1977 in Foreman's car, which was parked in the garage of his North Arlington home. yesterday at the Arlington County Courthouse, 11 hours after he voluntarily appeared to talk with Burroughs and police about the murders of Alan Foreman and Donna Shoemaker. Burroughs said yesterday there is "ample legal precedent" to try Earman on the conspiracy charge even though he has been found not guilty of the murders.Įarman's arrest accurred at 2 a.m. County Commonwealth's Attorney William S. The new charge, conspiracy to commit a felony, carries a penalty of up to 20 years imprisonment. She has said that threats have been made on her life, and recalled an instance when an unidentified called told her that two people were dead already and one more death would not make any difference. Dalton complaining about the manner in which the investigation was being handled and Arlington police supplied her with a shotgun for her own self defense as her involvement in the case grew. "If it wasn't for her, the investigation would have been dead," said one source close to the investigation. Tips and leads she has provided over the last year fueled the investigation at times when it appeared to be stalled, police said. Kaya Ploss, a Polish-born writer who lives in the District of Columbia and who has been writing a book on Earman's life. The police investigation of the case was revived with the assistance of H. Richard Lee Earman, a former real estate salesman who was acquitted by a jury of murdering an Arlington couple, was arrested again yesterday by Arlington police and charged with conspiring to murder the couple.
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