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Suspect Denies Killmcr Barmaidm 9BARTOW Lester Earl Parker ha* pleaded innocent to first j degree murder in the slayinf of a j woman who was not missed until he told of killing her.Sheriff Hagan Parrish reported Parker, 43, was being questioned in a child molestation case and suddenly blurted out that he had killed a Lakeland barmaid two weeks before.Parker led officers to where the woman’s body was lying beside a road near Lakeland. She was identified as Mrt. Edna Carter Oooley who was estranged from her husband.The sheriff said Parker related he shot Mrs. Cooley in his auto* j mobile to aee If he had the nerve to go through with a killing, and lad nine others earmarked for j Jeath. i
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Sarasota, Florida, US

Thu, Mar 21, 1957

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