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Deputy sought in slaying captured

A sheriff's deputy accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in Kentucky has been captured in Waterloo, Iowa, Kentucky State Police said earlier today.

Simpson County Sheriff's Deputy Randall Creek, 41, was wanted on a warrant for murder in the death of his former girlfriend, Debbie R. Rediess, 46, authorities said. Rediess was shot to death outside her home Sunday morning in Smiths Grove, which is about 85 miles south of Louisville.

Black Hawk County police notified Kentucky State Police early today that they had found the vehicle belonging to Creek in the parking lot of a Days Inn in Waterloo, a KSP news release said.
Even as a tactical team was being assembled to approach the suspect's room, Creek came outside and surrendered without incident, the release said.

Creek will be held in the Black Hawk County Jail pending extradition to Kentucky.

Before his capture, Creek sent an e-mail to a newspaper, Kentucky State Police and about 30 other recipients, confessing to the killing, Trooper Todd Holder said.

"I am not running to get away but I am going to make the KSP earn their money on this one," Creek said in the e-mail, which was posted on The Daily News of Bowling Green's Web site. "I have never been armed after the encounter and there will be no chase or struggle I assure you."

Authorities, however, said they believed Creek to be armed with at least a handgun and said they had evidence that he had been in the Louisville area.

Late yesterday afternoon, Creek sent another e-mail to law enforcement and media in which he threatened Warren County Jailer Jackie Strode.

Creek ran as a Republican in the 2002 jailer's race and was defeated by Strode, the incumbent. Creek also said in the e-mail that Strode fired him from a job at the county jail in 1999.

"If I have contact with him at his facility I assure you I will kill him with my bare hands and he knows I am capable even before this encounter happened," he said in the e-mail.

Holder said police had notified Strode, the jail and area law enforcement.

"We know he's stopping and using computers," Holder said of Creek. "We know he's alive."

Hours before Rediess was shot, Creek sent an e-mail to The Daily News describing his feelings for Rediess.

It was one of several letters Creek had written to the paper in recent years, the newspaper reported.

In the letter, Creek said Rediess ended their relationship after five years because he wouldn't set a wedding date.

"I don't blame her for leaving but I guess the message I am trying to get across to couples in this area is never take for granted that your spouse or girlfriend will always be there," he wrote in the e-mail. "To my darling Debbie I love you very much and I hope that one day we will be married and live happily ever after."

State police got Creek's personal e-mail address from the suspect's brother and sent their own message asking Creek to turn himself in. Three hours and 35 minutes later, Creek responded, saying he had become jealous after seeing his ex-girlfriend with another man.

Editor's comment: I guess Randal has a problem, and if you say EGO, you are right. I will also add delusional to the list!