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iu jioimon.And after doing some of that^ according to the Dade County district attorney, Mr. Powers flew to Miami {Juno 29, 1964), found Mr. Mossier alon# ifter midnight In the Key Biscayno flat, cracked his skull with a pop bottle and stabbed hi in over and over with the fury of a crazed wasp, and later that morning {June 30) coolly flew back to Houston.Powers and his Aunt Candy have been free in $50,000 bail since Iheir arraignment on first-degree murder charges last Aug. ll—just a year after the staying. Their trial is scheduled to open on Jar. 17.The State ecntends it was no accident that Candy was miles away at the hour (about 2 a.m.) of Ihe murder. Taking the young children, and leaving only a boxpr dog bs company for Mossier, she had pone to Jackson Memorial Hospital seeking relief, she said, for a migraine; headache.Boxers berk but don't talk. Thera an no eyewitnesses to the -crime. But the State nevertheless claims it has enough corroborative evidence to sink an aircraft carrier.There is a series of photos showing Candy and Powers living it up at fashionable resorts and in night spots. There are numerous letters in Candy's handwriting fsay police experts] to My darling Mel. sent frommerely a maneuver to cover uppoints as distant as Mexico and London.There is a record kept by Mossier On another, secret -Miami apartment) of phone conversations overheard between Candy and her nephew. It contains this 1 hought - provoking entry: If Mel and Candy don't kill me first, I'll have to kill thorn!”And there is a strand of hair. This was found clutched in the stiff hand of thi victim. The hair setmed black— but it was found to b« brown, and dyed. When Powers got a jail haircut after his arrest in Houston, it was discovered he dyed his brown hair black.On the other hand, the de-1 fense has some hot lamales up its sleeve. The defense battery is headed by the formidable Percy Foreman of Texas (he represen led Jack Ruby for a while) and the redoubtable Harvey St. Jean of Miami, and you ran bet they will make the mosl out of the many equivocal aspects of the case — no! the least being the victim's own private life.At any rate, as of today thewise money in Miami says Candy will never burn. Or if she docs, it trill be on the beach at Corpus Christi, or Cannes, or Acapulco.Clt;ciinti.ciw01FditllalcsiH
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Thu, Dec 30, 1965
Page 8
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