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Texas Tech Librarian Found MurderedLubbock police are viewing as a double homicide the deaths of an associate dean of libraries at Texas Tech University and a woman in an East Lubbock park. Douglas Birdsall, 53, who had worked at the library since 1989, was found dead inside a car parked in a drainage gully near Dunbar Historical Lake. With him was Viola Ross, 18, an unemployed resident of East Lubbock. An autopsy revealed that both victims were killed by gunshot wounds to the head at another location in the city around 10 p.m. January 30, according to the February 2 Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. The killer apparently drove them to the park location afterward. Police have identified no suspects in the murders. Birdsall supervised the Texas Tech library’s recent $17-million renovation and was to have moved into a new office February 2. Earlier, he held positions at North Dakota State and Idaho State university libraries. Dean of Libraries E. Dale Cluff told American Libraries that university grief counselors had been called in to talk to the staff shortly after the news broke. “We were close colleagues,” Cluff said. “He had just led us through a massive, two-year-long strategic planning process that was very nicely done.” Posted February 5, 2001. |
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