
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 22, 1990                   TAG: 9005220618
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: EVENING 
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SUSPECT IN SLASHING OF ROANOKE WOMAN WAIVES EXTRADITION

A man charged with slashing a Roanoke woman to death in her home last Thursday has waived extradition from Lawrence, Kan., where he was arrested Friday night.

James S. "Pete" Ware is expected to be returned to Roanoke late today or tomorrow after saying he did not wish to fight extradition at a hearing Monday in Kansas, authorities said.

Ware, 24, is accused of killing Ophelia Laverne Wiley, 31, in her Hanover Avenue home Thursday morning and sending her 8-year-old son jumping from a second-story window to escape.

Wiley died a short time later from a knife wound to her throat.

Authorities believe that after the killing, Ware ran to a nearby housing project and hitched a ride to Covington with an unsuspecting motorist.

After leaving his van for a few minutes in Covington, the man returned to find the van and his passenger missing.

The stolen van was later found in Mount Vernon, Ill., where police say Ware stole another car.

He was arrested Friday night after he was unable to pay a toll at an off-ramp from Interstate 70 near Lawrence, authorities said.

by CNB