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Mossier PicturedAs a Sex MonsterBy TOM COPE(New* Ttil:unt AutclM* BdUW) DU AM I - Tubs a bis mob of thrill seekers got slopped thismorning at the heavy oak doers of the courtroom 6-1, which was jampackcd as^.t h e sensation-ladeo Mossier y.minder trial'9 J 'went Into Its 13ih day.But It wasn't— likely they’d Cep* miss much — at least not compared 1o Tuesday, when t h e sparklers began !o go off like onn Chinese New Year. H was the day IhB*. llie lawyers thund-crrd and that C'ar.dy wept a liltle.Everybody had figured Ihe defense would try to blacken the victim's character and plan! In the jury's mind Ihe Idea lie mustAnother Slory About Mossier Trial, Pg. 24have Peon killed by anybody but ihe defendants—Ids sexy widow Candace and her nephew Mel Powers, a towering 24-ycar-old heachbay type who is aelually Quite good locking, dcsp.le abroken nose and the ravages ctfacne.Jacques Mosstar, 4?-y#»r-oM finance company and banking tycoon, coctd have been murdered by anybody from four classifications of people, the greet Percy Foreman of Houston iuggeit*d to the blinking juror*. And In building up ttii* suggestion he Improvised ■ script fit for th# raniest carrp In filmdom.Foreman asked the 12 men In the jury box and Hie three alicr-nales to believe that Mossier — heretofore generally described rs a distir.cuishcd looking, quiet manr.crcil and generous to kids -could have been killed by 1) a businessman ruined through Mossler's iDaeWnaUons” 2) some former employe fired for no reason 3fler years of faithful service: 3) some business associate' fearful of being pushed out info Ihe cold and 4) a sex deviate.Class I. it grew clear as ihe day wore on, was the onp with ihe aces and deuces in Ibis wild game. The business of the first four witnesses two doctors and two mer. from the sheriff’s department — was to testify on what they found in the living room of 2 C Governors I^xlgc Apartments, o:i Sunrise Drive, an ultra-select little street on Key Biscaync, shortly before 5[Turn To MOSjhEJt. Pg. 3)* ir *Mossier Witness?i 'Tells of ScreamAnd Barking Dogml-theMIAMI, Fla. lt;AP) - Mrs. Irene Durr described today how a horrible scream nnd the furious barking of a dog brought her out of her bed at the Governor's l^Klge apart-mcnls the niglu Jacques Messier was beaten and stabbed to death.Utcr that night. Mrs. Durr testified, she heard Candace Mossler’s adopted son, Eddie, 11, ask her. Mom, you don't want us !o tell?Mrs. .Mossier ard her nephew. Melvin l,an© Powers, arc on frial charged with the murder of Mosslei in (he early morning of June 30. 1364.is,’tieohaw tail-only ling n It t ISMrs. Durr, manager of the apartment house on Key Bis-eayne. said when she hoard the jcrcani and '.he barking she rushed out her door and saw Ihe second-floor Mossier apartment ail lighted up.She said she called up, demanding that Movslcr's boxer
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Wed, Feb 02, 1966
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