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But Fouchard said the sleeping sequence, he said.Couple accused of killing mothers and kidnapping babies to sell themATHENS, Ala. (AP) — A couple used a “Beautiful Baby Contest” in a 1980 scheme in which at least two new mothers were killed and their babies abducted for sale, according to authorities still piecing the cases together.Harold Schut and Jackie Sue Schut of Washington state, awaiting trial on murder charges in a baby abduction and slaying inthis Alabama City, may have been involved in six similar cases, according to a Texas investigator.Schut is under a capital murder indictment in the killing of Geneva Clemons, 27, and the abuduction of her infant son in Athens on Jan. 21, 1980. Last week Schut was indicted in Houston on a kidnapping charge in an infant abduction and the killing of the baby’s mother, Cheryl Ann Jones, 20, on March 8,1980.Mrs. Schut, 34, is to stand trial May 4 on a murder charge in the slaying of Mrs. Clemons, who was shot after Schut allegedly approached her about taking pictures of her 15-day-old baby for a magazine. The baby, James Clemons, now 7 years old, was found abandoned on a rural road in freezing temperatures several hours after the slaying.Chuck Rosenthal, an assistant district attorney handling the case in Houston, told the Athens News Courier in a story published Tuesday that the Schuts may have been involved in at least six other cases.He said evidence indicated they used variations of the baby contest scam, gaining the trust of parents by posing as baby magazine photograhers.
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Dover Times Reporter
Dover, Ohio, US
Wed, Apr 01, 1987
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