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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 15, 1934

Page

2

Man Confesses Murder Linked to Camp Raid and Wedding Plan

Robert Edwards faced a preliminary hearing in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania after a police raid uncovered a swastika at a boys camp. He allegedly confessed to murdering Freda McKechnie to marry another woman, engineer Margaret Crain, and dispose of the body in a lake. Leonard D. Morgan stood beside Edwards as his defender.

Freda McKechnie Robert Edwards Wilkes-Barre Edwards Leonard D. Morgan Margaret Crain Miss Mc

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