Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 3, 1990 TAG: 9003032927
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RON BROWN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Sam "Sammy-Town" McBride was arrested Feb. 23 at the Anchorage, Alaska, airport on a fugitive warrant in connection with the death of Dixie Lee Carney.
Police said he was attempting to board a plane when he was taken into custody.
A spokesman for the Alaska State Police said McBride was fighting extradition to Oakland, where a murder warrant had been issued.
McBride was being held at a pretrial facility in Anchorage until an extradition hearing March 23.
Oakland police have said they solidified a case against McBride after a tip from a viewer of the television show "A Current Affair" led police to a key witness.
Police had been looking for McBride, the lead singer of the group Fang, since Carney was strangled in her North Oakland apartment Aug. 6.
Carney's car and $5,000 she had been saving for school were missing.
Police said McBride immediately fled the Oakland area and had been tracked to Baltimore, New York City and various parts of New York state.
Alaska authorities would not comment on what led them to McBride.
Police obtained the murder warrant just weeks after the nationally televised "A Current Affair" ran a segment in January on the Carney case.
Dixie Carney's mother, Peggy, who lives in Roanoke, said Friday evening that Oakland police had not notified her of McBride's arrest.
"We sit here in suspense and they never tell us anything. I feel we're the last to know," she said. "I think we should have been the first. Maybe they were never going to notify us, if it has been this long."
Kevin Jenks, a Roanoke-area rock promoter who knew Dixie Carney, said he was glad to hear that McBride had been arrested. Jenks said in an earlier interview that Carney had confided in him just prior to her death that she was having trouble with McBride.
Carney, a 1983 graduate of Patrick Henry High School, had met McBride at the Iroquois Club in Roanoke. A photographer, she was well-known to local hard-core rock fans, Jenks said.
"Everybody was shocked and outraged that this could happen."
by CNB