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Insurance killing shocks Waycross boy’s death
In Waycross Georgia AP report, Father Harvey Nelson confesses to an insurance murder plot to collect 900 dollars from the life policy on his 10 year old son JC Nelson. Verna Mac Fowler and Mary Kent allegedly drew straws to assign the role of shooter, with Fowler firing on the boy on the porch of the father’s business. Nelson and both women are jailed on murder charges.
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