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* 4drudge killings KERRVILLE, Tex. CUPI)A rural justice of the peace, his son and daughter-in-law were murdered early today in what another magistrate described as “grudge killings.”Justice of the Peace Albert Kennedy’s wife, returning home from her job at a motel, found her 54-year-old husband shot once in the head and once in the chest.A Texas Department of Public Safety sergeant and patrolman went to break the news to Kennedy’s son. Tommy, 26. The DPS men found the son dead near his front door, also shot once in the head and once in the chest.At the rear of the house, they found Kennedy's 22-year-old wife lying across the threshold of a room where 18-month-old twin girls were asleep. Mrs. Kennedy had been shot three times in the face.The younger Kennedys weremarried last August. The girls were his daughters by a formermarriage.‘‘It was a triple murder,” Sheriff E. A. Shreiver said. No doubt in my mind about that. I wouldn’t say it was a grudge thing yetBut Kerr County Justice of the Peace Robert Wilson said the Kennedys appeared to him to have been victims of grudge killings.Justice Kennedy lived two miles northwest of Tex., a town six miles west of Kerrville in the Texas hillcountry northwest of SanAntonio. The son lived seven miles from his father on a 30-40foot bluff overlooking the Guadalupe River.Both homes were secluded in the sprawling farm country.A DPS crime laboratoryteam. Texas Ranger Henry Ligon of Kerrville and Ranger Sgt. Bob Mitchell from headquarters at Austin were sent to help Shreiver investigate.“We have no suspects yet,” Shreiver said. “We are hunting something definite before we go looking for somebody.”All the victims were dressed. Investigators believed that one of the shots that hit the elder Kennedy came through a screened door.Nothing appeared to be missing from either home, including a collection of guns in the elder Kennedy's house He apparently operated a gunshop in his residence.BirthsMr. and Mrs. Tony Sheneman, route 3, Decatur, became the parents of an 8 lb. baby boy February 2, at 6:33 a.m. at the Lutheran hospital He has been named Jason JanP.T.A. meetingto be heldThe Monmouth P.T.A. will meet Thursday, February 8. at7:30 p.m. in the MonmouthThe program will be presented by the Junior Scouts, Brownies, and the Cub Scouts. The public is invCt
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Decatur Daily Democrat
Decatur, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 06, 1973
Page 3
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