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Express / Wws Task Fon*eMurders9 Death, Disappearance3 Mysteries Wrapped Into OneSuit No 73CI-6889 drew no public alien!™. when it was filed in 5711. District Court Iasi July 2. Bill investigators fromhalf-dozen agencies arc now rnoniloring the case. *If the mailer conics to a full-dress courtroom battle, tlie resulting testimony may well shed crucial light on an unsolved mystery in Indiana and 011 the murders of an Ingram justice of the peace mid his son and daughter-in-law early this year.The court action seems simple on ihc surface. Mrs. .Jo Ann II. Murray is suing f idelity Guaranty Life Insurance Company to force payment of $100.000 for the accidental deuih of her husband. George R. Murray Jr. on Feb. 21. She asks also for attorneys' fees and damages whichwould bring the total judgment to $249,000.The insurance company filed its answer to the suit in mid-July, li flatly denied liability for payment under the circumstances of the case.The death of George R. Murray Jr.,” declared ihn attorneys for the company, “resulted from suicide and ihc benefits surd for are therefore not payable under the lawful provisions of the policy.”LI. Col. George R. Murray, who rclired frum the army in 1U7L as a much-decorated Green Bcrcl veteran of Vietnam, bought Policy No. 0111992 from the Mnryland-hascil insurance company 011 Jan. 13. 1072.Tli a I was just two days after Ihc first ofa series of transactions which preceded the bafRing disappearance 011 July 31, 1972, of the assistant vice president of a Washington, Ind., bank-one of the few midwcslern women who have achieved such professional recognition.Murray was much more widely known in Washington, a small farming center of 12,000 in south central Indiana, than in his adopted home of San Anionio.He had grown up in Washington as had his wife. In recent years he had become a hometown hero as a result of official recognition of his battlefield valor.The future Green Bcrol had been one of the brightest and most active memhers or Washington High School’s Class of 1948. He went on to Purdue University, but left the campus to join the. Army in 1951.The handsome 6-footer was a natural. By 1952 he had won an CCS commission and lie went 011 lo serve at the far corners of the glebe before winning combat distinction in Vietnam.He also managed to win a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska and to put in a lour at the University or Illinois where he earned an MA degree. It was while he was at Illinois that he visited Washington lo sign a will making his wife his beneficiary. It was signed 011 Sepi. 27. 1965 and witnessed by Flavian E. Myers, board chairman, and Jay Myers, president uf the Citizens Bank and Trust Co.Murray was lo prove an active and. ultimately controversial, customer of their bank. Records filed in federal court Sec MURDERS. Page ISDDlchlPriceClementsResidents of South Texas were shocked last Feb. 5 at the cold-blooded murder of Justice of the Peace. Albert Kennedy in his home near Ingrain and me wanton killing of his son and daughter-in-law in their home seven miles away. Six months earlier, on July 31, 1972, a woman vice president of an Indiana bank disappeared. An Express/News Task Force of Kemper Diehl, Jim rncc ami Jesse Clements has probed these seemingly unrelated events tor the past month and has come up with a surprising storv.SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1973 SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS10Express and News:-Sv \ 'WeekenderHOMEEDITIONBeef Thaw Speeded’74 Car Hike Cut OrderedVanished Bank WorkerBetty Collison, above, in January 1 972# authorized the first of o series of transactions with It. Col. George R. Murray, who was killed in □ car. She later disappeared.WASHINGTON CAP) — The Cosi of Living Council ordered on Friday a 10-to 30-pcr cent cutback 331 scheduled price increases far 1974 automobiles. It also lifted two days early the freeze on beef prices.The council announced a number of major actions under the new Phase 4 anU-mflaUoiv program, including:• New food, regulation* to go into cfrpct along with lifting of the price ceilings 0:1 beef at midnight Sunday, instead of midnight Tuesday as originally scheduled;• That tlu* Atlantic Richfield Oil Companyhas agrbed to suspend an increase of one cent per gallon in its wholesale price of gasoline and 2 cents per gallon increase in the price of home heating oil;• Thai 11 has directed officials of Exxon Corp. lo appear in Washington next week to justify a proposed increase in their wholesale price of gasoline of one com per gallon.• A temporary suspension of scheduledprice increases by major tire, paper, so.ip and detergent companies,• That it will hold public hearings in two weeks on the proposed price increases by lire,
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San Antonio Express and News
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sat, Sep 08, 1973
Page 37
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