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Reed says he did not kill coupleLITTLE ROCK (AP) -Alonzo Clay Reed testified at his capital murder trial Saturday that he did not kill two young Pine Bluff residents whose bodies were found in a car trunk at a city park Feb. 12,1974.Reed, 29, a former Little Rock resident who was arrested in California last year in connection with the slayings, was the last of 16 defense witnesses in the trial.Circuit Judge Lowber Hendricks Jr. scheduled closing arguments for today.Reed is on trial for two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Ernest Dene Landrum, 21, and Carmen Sue Margrave, 18.The former karate instructor testified that he had unsuccessfully searched the records of his karate school in an attempt to determine where he was the night the two were killed.Deputy Prosecutor David H Williams asked Reed if he had been asked by Alvin Higgins, a fellow inmate at the county jail, why he did not get rid of the car. Williams then asked if Reed had not replied that he could not get rid of the car because the ignition keys werein Landrum's pocket when thebodies were locked in the trunk.Reed denied the conversation. but Higgins later testified that that the talk had occurred.Earlier in the trial. Randolph Wallace, who was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony, told the jury that Reed shot and killed Landrum during a drug purchase at Little Rock’s Reservoir Park.An accomplice, Phillip Herndon. 28. of Little Rock, is also charged with two counts of capital murder in the shootings. His trial is scheduled for July.
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Benton Courier
Benton, Arkansas, US
Mon, Apr 02, 1979
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