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Murder suspects soughtPLAINPIEID, Ind. (UPhPolice were mrdling for a second suspect in the* 1971slayings of a Clayton woman and her boyfriend, who werebelieved to have been shot in the head and Ihen sealed in steel drums.Konald Tomasik, 27, wasapprehended Saturday and cluirged with the deaths of Mary Ann Higginbotham, 20. and Timothy Willoughby, 2t, state police said.Officers were searching forJames Kellums W indianapolis, suspected of being an accomplice in the double homicide.Investigators believe Toma sik, who was being held Sunday at the Hendricks County Jail, and Kellums put the victims bodies in steel drums, which they welded shut and then placed in a gravel pit, state police in a gravel pit, state fKilice Sgt. Frank Cove saidliove said |olice believe the Iriiin with Miss Higginbotham* body was washed into a creek, where it was discovered a yearafter her death. Authoritiestheorize the suspects found the drum with Willoughby’s bodyand destroyed it.An anonymous telephonecaller gave police the breakthey needed in the five-year old case to win indictments from aHendricks County grand jury.Uive said evidence indicates all three men we re involved in a stolen car ring and that Willoughby and Miss Higginbo tliam threate ned to turn in the other two after Willoughby wa» arrested.
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Rushville Republican
Rushville, Indiana, US
Mon, May 23, 1983
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