Vatican Shrouded in Secrecy During Election of New Pope; Details of the Sarah Lunde Murder; Private Contractors Facing Big Risks in Iraq
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN SUNDAY NIGHT, countdown to the conclave. The cardinals are moving in, as we're just hours away from the special election for the next pope. Also...</s>DAVID GEE, SHERIFF, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA: The defendant put the victim in a choke hold, causing her to become unconscious, and eventually causing her death.</s>LIN: Prosecutors are making their case against the suspect in custody for the murder of Sarah Lunde. Tonight, new details on the teen who sought refuge inside her local church. And rocked by a massive wave, decks flooded and passengers scrambling for cover. Tonight, exclusive details from an eyewitness on board a cruise ship nightmare. These stories and a lot more next on CNN SUNDAY NIGHT. Good evening, I'm Carol Lin from the CNN Center in Atlanta. Also this hour, she did more in her 28 years than most do in a lifetime, but a young aide worker dies in an ironic twist of fate. Also, the mother of Michael Jackson's accuser talks about sexual advances and kidnapping plots, but does the jury believe her? That is on tonight's rap sheet. And making money in the danger zone. Tonight, an American hostage in Iraq and what it takes to travel into the world's most dangerous places. But up first tonight, the Vatican. It's welcomed millions of people over the last two weeks, becoming the open door epicenter of the Catholic world's collective grief. But a shroud of secrecy is descending there as we speak, not to rise until we know the name of the next pope. In just six hours, the 115 voting cardinals gather for a special mass. They will lock themselves in, and start voting a few hours later. One-hundred-and-fifteen cardinals, by the way, will be the most to attend any conclave ever. A prominent clergyman, the president of Washington's Catholic University of America, tells CNN he expects the conclave to be short. He says we can expect a new pope in just a few days. So what's with all the secrecy? Well, credit Pope John Paul II, who tightened the lid when he re-wrote the conclave rules just nine years ago. Now those new rules take into account things most previous popes would never have imagined -- mini microphones, tiny TV cameras, stuff to snoop and peek into this most confidential of gatherings. So to make sure unwanted eyes and ears are kept out of the Sistine Chapel, where the cardinals vote, the Vatican is going more high-tech than ever. CNN's Chris Burns with more details.</s>CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At the Vatican, as the leaders of the church prepare to choose a new pontiff, the saints watch over the secrets of the inner sanctum. So did the Vatican police, trying to stay one step ahead of spy technology. Security experts say the sky's the limit, from monitoring cell phone conversations, to eavesdropping from high above. Look how close satellites can peek.</s>ANDREA MARGELLETTI, CENTER FOR INTL. STUDIES: Surely many intelligence agencies in the world are trying to penetrate inside the Holy See with special aircraft, for example, spy planes. We've had directional or lasers.</s>BURNS: Lasers that could be pointed at windows of the Sistine Chapel to pick up conversations where the cardinals will cast their votes, or the windows of the Vatican's Santa Magda Hotel, where the cardinals are staying. Vatican experts say the church's security force is expected to sweep the grounds for bugs and other gadgets during the conclave. Private Detective Miriam Tomponzi displays some of the classic tricks. The lighter that's a camera. Another that converts into bug. The pen, that's a microphone.</s>MIRIAM TOMPONZI, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR (through translator): There's absolutely no doubt we could spy on the Vatican the conclave.</s>BURNS: But the security for this conclave has been years in the making. (on camera): Pope John Paul II himself issued counterintelligence orders for conclaves, banning cell phones, recorders, radios, televisions, electronic organizers to protect the cardinals from in his words "threats to their independent judgment." (voice-over): More than that, experts say, a pope spied on for years under communist regimes in Poland, helps better sensitize the Vatican to espionage.</s>MARGELLETTI: I think now, we are the Holy See, much less vulnerable than ever.</s>BURNS: Less vulnerable to outside spying perhaps. But experts also say that won't make the Vatican free of internal intrigue, as rivals jockey for power in the shadows of the saints. Chris Burns, CNN, Vatican City.</s>LIN: And of course, stay with CNN. In just a few minutes, a conversation with our Vatican analyst Delia Gallagher, as the hour of the conclave draws nearer. And of course, CNN will bring the proceedings to you live -- everything we can show you at least anyway. Our coverage begins at 4:00 a.m. Eastern tomorrow. The election of the new pope, live from Vatican City. But right now, to a story that has captivated the nation this weekend. And like so many before it, ended tragically. A missing Florida teenager is dead. Authorities say a horrific crime has been committed. Sara Dorsey has the new developments from Ruskin, Florida.</s>SARA DORSEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's happened again in Florida. A child is killed allegedly by a convicted sex offender. Authorities say 13-year old Sarah Lunde was murdered in her home, allegedly by a man who had once had a relationship with her mother. The sheriff says David Onstott has confessed to the crime.</s>GEE: The sheriff's office alleges that on April 10, 2005, between the hours of midnight and 0500 a.m., the defendant, David Lee Onstott, arrived at the victim's residence at 2812 30th Street Southeast in Ruskin, Florida, looking for the victim's mother, Kelly Mae. After entering the residence, the victim and defendant became involved in a verbal confrontation. During the confrontation, the defendant put the victim in a chokehold, causing her to become unconscious, and eventually causing her death.</s>DORSEY: Lunde's partially clothed body was found only a half mile from her home in a pond at a fish farm. Searchers came from all over the area, including a man whose story is hauntingly similar. Mark Lunsford's daughter, Jessica, disappeared from her Florida home. Her body was later found buried. A convicted sex offender is charged with that crime. Lunsford has one thing to say to David Onstott.</s>MARK LUNSFORD, JESSICA'S FATHER: Onstott, the same goes for you. I hope you rot in hell.</s>DORSEY: This eight day ordeal came to the ending everyone feared. Sunday morning, Lunde's friends gathered in her honor for a memory service at her church.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And though we not have been able to bring Sarah back safely home, we can be certain that she is forever safe with the Lord today.</s>DORSEY: An autopsy will be performed to determine the official cause of her death. Sara Dorsey, CNN, Ruskin, Florida.</s>LIN: Still to come, I talked with Sarah Lunde's youth pastor. He was a very close friend who tells me that the public has the wrong idea about a girl first characterized as a chronic runaway. His story, coming up in just a few minutes. In the meantime, a look across the nation tonight. Vanished, a Center County, Pennsylvania district attorney. Police searched Ray Ricar's car after finding it about 50 miles from its home. No sign of foul play or clues to his whereabouts. Ricar hasn't been seen or heard from since Friday. And Providence, Rhode Island -- a police detective shot to death today with his own gun at the police station allegedly by a suspect he was questioning. The suspect then jumped out of the third floor window, but was soon captured. The detective James Allen was a 27- year veteran of the force. And rough seas indeed. A holiday cruise-liner cut short a Caribbean journey after a giant wave broke windows and flooded several cabins. It pulled into a South Carolina port for a check-up this morning. The Norwegian Dawn was halfway from Miami to New York. Passengers on board say it wasn't exactly a Titanic moment, but people were scared.</s>JAMES FRALEY, PASSENGER: We're talking 47-foot waves hitting the 10th floor, knocking Jacuzzis on the 12th floor overboard; people sleeping in hallways with life preservers on, just pure pandemonium.</s>LIN: We've got a lot more coming up in a just a little bit. A passenger from that cruise ship got off for good in Charleston and was so scared, she drove all the way to Washington, D.C. So she joins us a little later tonight with her harrowing story. Meantime, condolences are pouring in to the family of an American aid worker killed in Iraq. Marla Ruzicka, the founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict, died in an apparent insurgent attack on her convoy in Baghdad yesterday. CNN's Jane Arraf knew her personally. And she's got more on the woman and her contributions that will long be remembered.</s>JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Marla Ruzicka had a knack for making friends and a passion for helping the helpless. She could have stayed in California, but she spent her time in Iraq and Afghanistan.</s>MARLA RUZICKA, CAMPAIGN FOR INNOCENT VICTIMS OF CONFLICT: These terrible images can be the</s>ARRAF: So she hit the streets, working her way through war-torn Baghdad to find out where she could get help.</s>RUZICKA: I'm frustrated because I go to the HQ, I go to the CPA and I was like who do I talk to? And nobody knows...</s>ARRAF: She convinced U.S. lawmakers to appropriate money for civilian victims of U.S. military campaigns. Marla saw more suffering in a day than most people ever do and still kept her sunny disposition. On this trip, we went with her to visit Najia Mohammed Briesen, who had lost eight members of her family when a missile hit their car. Marla told American soldiers the baby would die if she weren't air lifted to a hospital.</s>RUZICKA: We tried to get her immediate medical help and to save her life. And we did save her life, but her body couldn't take the burns.</s>ARRAF: She and her Iraqi assistant Fayez Al-Salaam, set up a project with 150 volunteers to do a survey of civilian victims.</s>RUZICKA: But we have about 5,000 cases. Not necessarily of deaths, but where homes were destroyed, where people were very critically injured. And you know, for me, I try as much as I can to go to families and say we're very sorry. We're working to try to get you some assistance and to kind of help them have some reconciliation and some closure, and to let them know that Americans do care about their well being.</s>ARRAF: At hospitals, grieving relatives would approach her, like this man whose two children were killed.</s>RUZICKA: I'm very sorry. I don't know what it's like to lose a child, but it pains me to know.</s>ARRAF: Marla thought about the risks of working in Iraq, but she didn't let them stop her.</s>RUZICKA: But you just have to keep your eyes open and let people know what you're doing and what you're about. And people -- I feel that a lot of people really appreciate our campaign. So they take a lot of care of myself and other people that work with me.</s>ARRAF: At 29, Marla had lived more, done more, than most people do over a long, long lifetime. Jane Arraf, CNN, Baghdad.</s>LIN: And returning to our top story later tonight, picking the next pope. It is a decision that will set the tone for the future of the Catholic Church. So straight ahead, more on the secrecy and the length the Vatican goes to maintain it. Also, risky behavior. Traveling to dangerous places in an unknown land. What kind of person does this and why? And later, tucked away in a war zone, something rarely found in Iraq -- a little fun. 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