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Man pleads guilty to chargeLAFAYETTE, Ind. (APj One of two men charged with kidnaping a Purdue University coed for a bizarre love experiment has entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court.Prosecutors said Harold Tennesson, 21, a Southwestern Minnesota State College student, pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally transporting the coed across state lines. The state says the coed was “unlawfully seized, confined, ihveigled, decoyed, kidnaped, carried away and held.”The pie i came after bargaining in which Tennesson was guaranteed no more than 10 years in prison, prosecutor John Wilks said.Also charged with the abduction of Susan Wells Cochran, 20, Little Falls, N.J., was Dr. Thomas K. Lippert, 25, a suspended instructor at the Marshall, Minn., schoolWilks said Uppert's case would go to a grand jury in April.Tennesson, referred to a probation officer for a pre-sentence investigation, was released on $100,000 bond. Lip-pert’s bond was doubled to $200,000 and he was released tohis parents’ home in New Ulm, Minn., after posting 10 per cent in cash.Both men are free on bond on similar charges filed in Minneapolis.Miss Cochran said she had accepted a ride to Boston with two men through a campus ride board. Instead of going east, the men drove west, threatened her with a pistol, bound her with electrical tape and forced her to drink whisky until shepassed out.She said she was taken to a New Him home, where she was forced to undress and gel insidea wooden box for an experiment” to see if she would fall in love with one of her abductors.Miss Cochran told investigators the men did not harm her, but her captors threatened to harm her friends or relatives if she resisted.The FBI learned Miss Cothran’s whereabouts March 13. lippert and Tennesson were arrested the next day,Prefinished I c«
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Fergus Falls, Minnesota, US
Thu, Mar 27, 1975
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