Jury hears kids name estranged husband in classroom murder
Four second graders testified that Al Lewis murdered Bettye McCaster at Burt Elementary on November 10. The defense argued evidence and child testimony showed uncertainty while witnesses described the couple's troubled marriage and Lewis talk of disciplining his wife. The case moved toward jury deliberation.
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Detroit
Burt
Bettye McCaster
Recorder's Court
al Lewis
Robert Snow
Lewis
Miss McCaster
Patricia Boyle
Keith Darden
Pamela Burnett
Wayne County
John Thompson Jr
Kline
Wilfred Rice
Rice
Joan Small
Widow of Eddie Slovik seeks $68,000 life policy payout
Mrs. Antoinette Slovik, widow of Pvt. Eddie Slovik the only American executed for desertion this century, asks the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records to restore a $68,000 National Service Life Insurance benefit plus interest. The case tops the board’s docket as voting proceeds in secret.
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Washington
Pentagon
Antoinette Slovik
Fountain School May Become Training Unit
Rocky Mount NC mayor says a state plan to convert the Richard T Fountain School into a prison unit may be altered to ease local objections. Gov Hunt’s office will propose turning the facility into a training school for offenders aged 15 to 18, a change officials call more acceptable than earlier plans.
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Rocky Mount, N.C
Richard T. Fountain
Fred Turnage
Rocky Mount
Turnage
Jim Hunt
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