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

DATE: SATURDAY, March 24, 1990                   TAG: 9003242430
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
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SINGER ACCUSED OF KILLING EX-ROANOKER EXTRADITED

The lead singer of a San Francisco rock band has waived his right to fight extradition from Alaska after his arrest in connection with the killing last August of a former Roanoke woman in Oakland, Calif., last August.

A spokesman for the Oakland Police Department said Sam "Sammy-Town" McBride was returned to California about a week ago.

He is charged with murder in connection with the death of Dixie Lee Carney, who was found 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 fled the Oakland area following her death.

"He made some significant admissions to some people in Wisconsin that tipped the scales in favor of charging him," said Rock Harmon, an assistant district attorney.

A tip from a viewer of the television show "A Current Affair" led police to the new witnesses in the case.

McBride, who will be arraigned in Oakland next Friday, was Carney's boyfriend. He was the lead singer of the hard-core rock band Fang.

Carney, 24, was a 1983 graduate of Patrick Henry High School. She met McBride when he performed at the Iroquois Club in Roanoke.

by CNB