ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, October 31, 1996 TAG: 9610310050
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: NASHVILLE, TENN.
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bradley Duane Osborne says he holds no grudges against his mother for turning him over to police.
``She did what she had to do. I'm glad she turned me in,'' Osborne said as he was led into Nashville's Criminal Justice Center Tuesday night.
Osborne was wanted in the slayings of a Mount Juliet, Tenn., woman and a Bristol, Tenn., woman. The deaths were part of a crime spree in Southwest Virginia and Tennessee.
Osborne, a former carnival worker, is being held on a homicide charge in the death of Donetta Keyser of Mount Juliet, a 46-year-old church secretary, who was shot Oct.10 outside a Hermitage coin laundry.
Osborne, a 28-year-old drifter from Roland, Okla., had been hospitalized in Memphis since Saturday after being injured in a shootout with authorities.
His mother, Holly Osborne, informed authorities of her son's whereabouts after he called her home in Oklahoma on Friday and his phone number appeared on her caller I.D. display.
The number was traced to Surplus Steel in Lakeland, Tenn., where authorities found Osborne in a company outbuilding.
After agents ordered Osborne to surrender, he pulled a gun and opened fire. Authorities fired back, striking Osborne in the chest. An FBI agent received superficial wounds.
Holly Osborne told WKRN-TV of Nashville Tuesday that she doesn't regret turning in her son.
``If you're in the right, I'm going to stand beside you and fight the world,'' she said.
``But if you're in the wrong, you know I'm on the other side.''
Osborne also is suspected in the shooting death of 22-year-old Stacy Cook of Bristol, who police believe was his girlfriend. Her body was found in a remote part of Washington County, Va. in early October.
Sullivan County, Tenn., Sheriff Keith Carr said Osborne also shot and wounded a former girlfriend in an Abingdon, Va., motel room; tried to kidnap a woman at a Bristol convenience store; kidnapped a third woman from a Bristol coin laundry, raped her several times and took her car; and tried to abduct a fourth woman at an Elizabethton, Tenn., shopping mall.
Osborne allegedly told one woman that he had no intention of surrendering.
``He told her that when police catch him, it's going to be a question of who's going to be the quickest,'' Carr said. ``He said he intended to go out in a blaze of glory.''
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