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Was BettyKennedySlain In A Local. Hotel?Four Men Questioned At Length By State Police Detective/ But Later Released—Three Men May Have Had Hand In Slaying Local GirlA new theory in Hagerstown’s* gathering new evidence and re* unsolved Betty Jane Kennedy [studying the large number of re* murder case was being investigated ports already complied by locallt;by detectives yesterday, .Detectives were checking on a story that the girl was slain in a Hagerstown hotel by three men -who “thought she knew too much.” Thepolice.Last night Cassidy announced that all tour men had been turned loose and that no support had been found for the new theory.body was then supposed to havet Detective Peters, after hearing been lowered by rope from a rear!Sgt. Cassidy’s report, said he had window of the hotel on the night of! no other possible theory on which April 4. 1946. loaded into a waiting I any further investigating could bevrcar and then tossed along a lonely road near Rouzerville, Pa.Four men, two of whom havemade. He said the story about the girl being slain in a local hotel room seemed to come from a “verylocal police records, were arrested | good source. here Tuesday night. Yesterday they j The garrotted, almost nude body were questioned at considerable!of the Hagerstown girl was found length by J. J„ Cassidy. State Police along Buchanan Trail, a short dis-detective sergeant. Cassidy hastance from RouzersvlUe. just fourbeen collaborating with a detective j and a half years ago.from Pennsylvania State Police and | The body, face down, was lodgedwith William Peters, former Hag- against a log. A slip, the girl's-onlyerstown police chief and now a private detective. They have beenpiece of clothing, was rolled up and wrapped around her stomach.
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Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Thu, Oct 05, 1950
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