The Region - News from Jan. 7, 1987

A Superior Court judge has arranged separate housing in Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail for Raymond Buckey, key defendant in the McMartin Pre-School molestation case. Buckey had been temporarily sharing a cell with four defendants awaiting trial in the 1985 slaying of Gerald and Vera Woodman, a Brentwood couple gunned down after a family Yom Kippur supper. Buckey’s lawyer said he feared that inmates Stewart and Neil Woodman (the couple’s sons) and two alleged hit men, Steve and Robert Homick, might be motivated to manufacture evidence against Buckey, who reportedly carries a sign reading “I am not listening or talking.” Judge William Pounders said that if the Sheriff’s Department was unable to find other housing for Buckey, he might refuse to hear testimony from any so-called jailhouse snitches at trial. Sheriff’s officials said Buckey will be housed alone elsewhere in the jail.