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Record Staff Writer

In the end, he wanted to see a picture of his mother.

That's what convinced a year-old Folsom prison inmate

to confess to the killing of a year-old Lodi girl whose remains were

found nearly 12 years ago on a Bear Creek bank near Brandt Road.

Investigators from the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office said Charles

Alarid agreed last month in a prison interview to tell how he killed Terri

Deschamp if they would dig up an old photo album from an evidence room and

return it to him, complete with pictures of his mother and other relatives.

"I asked him if there was anything I could do for him, no strings

attached, and he wanted his photo album," said Sgt.

John Drummond of

the Sheriff's Office. "He told us if we brought him his photo album,

he would tell us what happened."

Alarid, who began a life sentence in for murdering his wife and

her unborn child, told deputies he took Deschamp for a ride the night of

July 24, , when the teenager disappeared. He said he tried to convince

her to go to New Hogan Reservoir but that she refused and told him she wanted

to go home.

"Then we get into an argument," Alarid told deputies, according

to a transcript of the interview.

"A gun came out . I hit her once;

I panicked, split ."

Alarid told them he left her body at the exact spot where it was found

by dogs digging on the bank more than a year later.

On Tuesday in San Joaquin County Superior Court, Alarid pleaded guilty

to the murder.

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Under the terms of a plea bargain, he is expected to be sentenced

Aug. 20 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. That is the

term Alarid already is serving, so it will not lengthen his time in prison,

attorneys said.

With little evidence of how she died or who killed her, Deschamp's murder

case was shelved after early investigations turned up no leads.

But at least

one investigator -- Drummon -- made a point to get back to it periodically,

visiting Folsom prison in and to see Alarid, who was one of the

last people to see the teenager alive.

Drummond said Deschamp's murder nagged at him.

"It always ate on me," he said.

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"She was not a tramp,

not a drug dealer, not somebody who, by her own volition, put herself in

harm's way. She really was a nice girl."

Drummond said Deschamp had left her home in Southern California to return

to Lodi several days before she was killed. She met an old boyfriend, Nathan

Richards, whom she had known two years before at Lodi High School, when

she was living for a short time with her aunt and uncle.

"She was crazy about him," said Terri's aunt, Judy Deschamp,

who was in court in Stockton for Alarid's plea.

Judy Deschamp said it has been a long haul since her niece's death.

After

the girl disappeared, relatives hired a psychic in a desperate and unsuccessful

attempt to find her. After her niece's remains were found and linked to

her by dental records, they were lost in the move from the old Sheriff's

Department facility to the new facility in French Camp.

Deschamp said she is pleased that investigators finally found the person

responsible for Terri Deschamp's death.

"He's one sick person," Deschamp said, referring to the fact

that Alarid also killed his wife, who was eight months pregnant.

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"It's

just such a weird feeling to be in the same room with him."

Judy Deschamp said her niece moved in with Richards at a motel on Cherokee

Lane next door to Alarid, whom Richards had seen before but did not know.

The night she disappeared, Terri Deschamp had ridden with Alarid to see

Richards at work, where she argued with him.

Later that night, Alarid told

deputies, he tried to convince her to drop Richards and be with him.

Richards, now married with two children and living in Lodi, also attended

the court hearing Tuesday. He said he was grateful the case was coming to

a close.

"It's about time," he said.

Richards himself was considered a suspect for some time, but he passed

a polygraph test and was cleared.

Still, he said, the gossip persisted.

"There were a lot of ugly rumors I had to live with for a long time,"

he said.

Richards said he wants justice in Deschamp's murder because Deschamp

never hurt anyone.

"She didn't deserve to be taken so short in life," he said.

"She had so much to offer."

With Alarid already serving life in prison without the possibility of

parole, his confession to Deschamp's murder will not change much.

Deputy District Attorney Thomas Testa said it is possible that Alarid

could be reclassified within the prison system as a triple murderer, which

could result in a transfer to Pelican Bay state prison, but he said that

would be up to officials with the state Department of Corrections.