Epperson Surrenders for Audrain County Triple Murder
Russell Lee Epperson faced arraignment in Audrain County Magistrate Court after a 10 day manhunt for the murder of Fern Richard and DeAnn Epperson. He surrendered at 12 50 pm telling Sheriff Riley he had been at his Mexico Missouri home until Sunday night.
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Russell Lee Epperson
Audrain
Art Riley
W. Pearson
Mexico
Fern
Richard
DeAnn Epperson
David W. Bear II
Columbia
Epperson
Bear
Audrain County
Mike MacPherson
Sheriff reports Epperson stayed at parental home place
Sheriff Riley said he asked Epperson where he had been before going to his parents home yesterday. He replied he had stayed at 608 West Pearson Street until Sunday. Evidence found in the attic including fresh bread and meat suggests someone had been sleeping there.
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Riley
Epperson
Michael MacPherson
Tom Cline
Sheriff Riley
W. Pearson St
Sheriff details night walk and hideout in cowshed
The sheriff recounted that Epperson walked at night to a cow shed on Molino road, stayed there the first day, then moved to a ditch along Route 1. He later walked to a barn near his parents’ home and finally crossed fields toward the Epperson home, with a search plane overhead.
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Epperson
Molino Road
R.D. Barnett
Riley
Epperson Tome
Epperson linked to triple death case. seals disputed
Evidence found at the barn included three blankets a water jug a skillet match es pillow case and .22 shells. Epperson admitted cooking a rabbit and eating it. Sheriff Riley said the Epperson home had not been sealed by his department though the city police may have done so earlier. The coroner ruled the deaths of Mrs Epperson and the two children occurred during a felony by Russell Epperson. Prosecutors sought a federal flight warrant as investigators searched for him.
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Epperson
Riley
Pearson Street
Bob
Russell Epperson
Tom Osborne
Osborne
First Purple Martin Scout Sighted North of Frank Parker
A first purple martin scout was reported yesterday north of Frank Parker on Route 2. The observer saw the season's first martin, an advance scout for incoming flocks. The nearby apartment house, a mile and a half north of Kaiser Refractories, awaits returning tenants. five pairs nested there last year.
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Mexico
Frank Parker
Route
Martin
Kaiser Refractories
Navy Prepares For Saigon Evacuation
A U S Navy task force with four aircraft carriers gathered in the Western Pacific for possible evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese from Saigon. No orders to enter Vietnam waters were given, but threat assessments continued as fighting raged in the Mekong Delta. American ships evacuated 14,000 Vietnamese refugees from Vung Tau to Phu Quoc. The carriers Enterprise Coral Sea Midway and Hancock were located from off Japan to midway between the Philippines and Indochina. Okinawa stood by with Marines for Phnom Penh evac. An embassy said the crash of a C5A Galaxy killing many aboard appears mechanical. sabotage is suspected by Pentagon sources.
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South Vietnam
Western Pacific
Vietnam
Mekong River
Lai Khe
Ham Tan
Vung Tau
Phu Quoc Island
Gulf of Thailand
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Coral Sea
Midway
Hancock
Japan
Philippines
Indochina
Okinawa
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
U.S
Ford Talks Vietnam Policy With Weyand and Kissinger
President Ford holds a series of Vietnam policy reviews in Palm Springs with Henry Kissinger and Gen. Frederick Weyand. Midnight talks precede dawn sessions as Ford considers strategy after Weyand’s Vietnam tour and Kissinger’s cautious reading.
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Calif
Ford
Henry A. Kissinger
Vietnam
Kissinger
Frederick C. Weyand
Army
Weyand
Ron Nelsen
Nessen
San Diego
South Vietnam
Saigon
Congress
Airlift Brings More Orphans From Saigon Evacuation
Nearly 900 Vietnamese orphans were flown to the United States aboard four jets while investigators searched wreckage of a Galaxy cargo plane near Saigon for missing bodies. The crash, with up to 243 orphans aboard, prompted new fears and a major international response including flights to Clark Air Base and stops in Guam Honolulu Seattle Chicago and New York.
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South Vietnam
United States
California
Ford
Holt Children’s Service
Guam
Honolulu
Seattle
Chicago
New York
Catholic Relief Service
U.S. Air Force
Viet Corng
Vo Dong Giang
New Phone Number Required For Orphans Calls
Washington AP reports that the Agency for International Development set a new toll free number 800 368-1180 for non orphan inquiries after East Coast calls overwhelmed lines. Officials say 2,000 orphans brought to the U.S. have been placed, urges contact with local welfare or adoption agencies, and suggests writing the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service for guidance.
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Washington
Agency For International Development
Sriday
American Council of Voluntary Agencies For Foreign Service
Park Ave. South
New York
N.Y
Dao Spencer
Area Music Festival Concludes With Wide Choir and Ensemble Results
Thousands of Northeast Missouri high school musicians gathered in Mexico for the final day of the annual evaluative music festival. Morning band and orchestra competitions led into a long list of vocal and instrumental solo and ensemble ratings including mixed choruses from multiple towns, girls and boys glee groups, quartets, trios, and several chamber and instrumental ensembles with a dense tally of school names and rating numbers.
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Montgomery City
Louisiana
Wright City
New Franklin
Elsberry
Glasgow
Community
Monroe City
Paris
Mma
Winfield
New Bloomfield
South Callaway
Sturgeon
Madison
Hallsville
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