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FBI Seizes Laborer in Slaying of Two Women
A Chicago Near North Side laborer, George Daniel Jones Jr, 32, was seized by FBI agents on a federal flight to avoid prosecution warrant linked to Omaha murders of Rita Kappenman, 21, and a University of Omaha co ed Carolyn Wevins. Chicago investigators questioned him, with Omaha officials traveling to Chicago to pursue the case. Jones previously used the alias John D Phillips and had escaped a 1954 gun fight in Arkansas.
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Chicago
FBI
Omaha
Neb
George Daniel Jones Jr
Near North Side
Chicago Avenue
Omaha U.S
Jones
Rita Kappenman
C. H. Ostler
Omha
Fones
Sogkup
Carolyn Wevins
University of Omaha
Kappenman
Keith
Creighton University
Creighton
Arkansas State Penitentiary
Wilson & Co
Little Rock
Ark
John D. Phillips
Phillips
Ostler
Eugene Fitzgerald
Douglas County