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Hoss dies by his own hand in Graterford prison
Stanley Barton Hoss Jr., 35, hanged himself in his Graterford cell after a life sentence for killing a Verona officer and a guard captain. He confessed to slayings including a Maryland woman and her 2-year-old daughter whose bodies were never found. An autopsy was pending.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Stanley Barton Hoss Jr
Hoss
State Correctional Institution
Graterford
Philadelphia
Robert Kline
Montgomery County
Tarentum
Allegheny County
Verona
Western Penitentiary
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Stanley Hoss
Loran Lewis
Asaline Peterson
Walter Peterson
Harvey Tapolow
Linda Peugeot
Daugher Lori Mae
Cumberland