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Turner jailed for life in Pikeville murder and fraud
In Pikeville Kentucky on April 2 a jury in Pike County Circuit Court sentenced William H. Turner to life imprisonment for the murder of two miners and an insurance fraud scheme totaling about 69 000. Turner was accused of dynamiting the mine and collecting insurance on his own life. A key witness claimed Austrian Paul Tope engineered the fraud and that the explosion happened while Turner tamped dynamite. Turner testified Tope fled to Europe, and the state could not locate Tope.
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