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Witness Says Lafoon Vowed To Avenge DogBy LOIS LUKCKE Times Staff WriterALLEGED burglary of a I^ake Worth home and the death of a small pet dog — with whom the owner reportedly said he would beat to death the burglars — entered the murder trial here Tuesday of 35-year-oid LeroyLafoon of Fort Worth.Billed as a key state witness, Virginia Garrett of Lake Worth took the witness stand, and in a frequently trembling voice, related incidents during mid-April of last year, culminating in her reportedly seeing lafoon “bloody and muddy.”Lafoon is on trial for murder with malice in the beating-shooting death April 17, 1971 of Mrs. Edith Shores, 42-year-old Haltom City, Tex., resident.Lafoon, first to go to trial, is one of four charged with murder in Mrs. Shores’ death. Other three are Doris Brown and Ralph Brown and Charlotte Hamilton Lafoon. The four also have been charged in the beating death of DeAnn Cloninger, 34, also of Haltom City.Bodies of Mrs. Shores and Miss Cloninger were recovered See STATE’S, Page 2
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Wichita Falls Times
Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Tue, Aug 29, 1972
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