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DA says Loper's alleged killer stalked other women
By Dan Eakin, deakin@starlocalnews.com
The Collin County District Attorney's Office is alleging that Terrance Black, the man accused of murdering Susan Loper in April 2011, not only stalked her but also previously stalked two other women.
Black, 49, who was arrested at the Grand Canyon in Arizona two days after Loper's body was found in a field in Frisco, is scheduled to go on trial in August in the court of 296th District Judge John Roach. He is being held in the Collin County Detention Center in lieu of $1 million bond on charges of capital murder by terroristic threat.
Jim Burnham, a Dallas attorney who for years was an assistant to Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade, is representing Black and is seeking to obtain information that points to someone other than Black as the killer of the Pilates instructor.
The document alleges that Black came to Loper's residence uninvited and unannounced, forced his way in and told Loper, who may have had an abortion, "You killed my kid. I'm going to kill you some day."
The document states that he also refused to leave when instructed to do so.
The document alleges that, between 2006 and April 2011, Black stalked Loper in various ways. He is accused of tampering with the latch on the gate and with exterior lights, and tampering with or disturbing patio furniture at her residence. He also is accused of kicking in or damaging a screen to her window.
Black also was accused of driving by her house and coming to her place of employment uninvited, as well as stalking her at different clubs that she frequented.
The document names another woman whom Black is accused of stalking between 2004 and 2006. In addition to following her, he would knock on her window at her residence, the document states. He also later confronted the woman and her husband at their residence.
While living in Georgia, in 1995 between the summer months and Thanksgiving Day, Black stalked a woman in that state, according to the document. He is accused of making harassing telephone calls to her, appearing at her house uninvited, following her, appearing at her mother's house uninvited and bringing her mother flowers, loitering outside the woman's residence and appearing at her place of employment.
In November 1995, according to the document, Black forced his way into the woman's home, shook her and restrained her from leaving the house by blocking her with his body. He also refused to leave after being instructed to do so by the woman and a man who was either her husband or boyfriend.
The document also states that Black attempted suicide in Georgia on Nov. 21, 1995, by taking an overdose of pills.
Johnson said the information about Black's history of stalking women may be important at the trial, particularly in the punishment phase.
Black was named by several of Loper's friends as a prime suspect after she was abducted from the Gleneagles Country Club in Plano on April 19, 2011, where she had worked as a Pilates instructor. A Plano police officer located her body in a Frisco field the following day.
Black left Texas and headed west. On April 22, 2011, he was approached by park rangers following a report that he was panhandling at the Grand Canyon. According to reports, Black jumped over a rail into the Grand Canyon. What could have been a 1,400-foot fall was stopped by a ledge at 25 feet.
Black sustained various injuries from the fall and spent several days under heavy guard in a Flagstaff hospital before being transferred to the Coconino County Jail and eventually extradited to Collin County.
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