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Candy Mossier And Nephew Are Now Set To WedfMIAMI (UP1)—Ciuxly Moss-* ler and her nephew melvin Lane Powers, tried a«ntl acquitted last year in the slaying of her millionaire husband, announced their engagement Saturday. ’ Mrs. Mossier, a 47-year-oLd blonde, and the muscular powers, 30, were acquitted by a jury after a. sensational trial.Tlie date pf the ’ wedding was not announced.Wearing an expensive ring with a teardrop cluster of blue and white diamonds, she made tlie engagement official in Miami Saturday while talkiug with a newsman in her plosh hotel suite.“I love Mr, Powers much more now'...but I think I’ve always loved him. I don’t even know when it started, but I’ve always loved him,” she said.Tlie couple was accused of killing Texqis millionaire Jacques Mossier to get his $34-ntilliou estate. After ail 18-mouth investigation and trial, they were found innocent by a Florida jury.They now liv-e in the 4Gjroom Mossier mansion at Houston.During the opening session of the trial, a, prosecutor charged “tlie motive for this murder was...a sordid, illicit love affair between Candace Mossier and her sister’s son, Melvin Lane Powers.”Immediately after tlie trial, the couple scoffed at reports they would wed.
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Great Bend Daily Tribune

Great Bend, Kansas, US

Sun, Dec 03, 1967

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