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By KEN de la BASTIDE Bulletin Staff Writer Madison Circuit Court was the setting today for the opening of the first-degree murder trial of Robert Gosha and the arraignment of Terry Lee Duckworth, also charged with first-degree murder. Duckworth had fought for three months to keep from being ex tradited to Madison County from Florida. Twenty-one-year-old Robert Gosha, 1628 Fairview St., is charged by grand jury indictment with murder and murder while committing a robbery in the Nov. 22, 1977, shooting death of Robert G. Kemper, 61, 812 Clyde St. Frankton. Duckworth, 33, Lapel, is charged in the March 28, 1978, stabbing death of Pamela Sue Boles, 20, also of Lapel. Duckworth was captured in Orlando, Fla., on March 22 and arrested on a federal interstate flight warrant that was issued on March 31, 1978. According to police reports, Kemper’s body was discovered on the morning of Nov. 22 in a vacant lot in the 1800 block of Sherman Street in Anderson. He was re portedly last seen alive about 7 p.m. on the evening of Nov. 21, entering the J.C. Penney Co., in the Mounds Mall shopping center to pay a bill. An autopsy performed on Kemper produced two slugs, one of which entered through the chest and the second removed from the upper left side of the body. Preliminary tests performed by Anderson ballistics experts revealed the slugs were fired from a .38-caliber weapon. On Sept. 7, 1978, Gosha was con victed by a Madison Circuit Court jury of taking $400 and a handgun from Grover Fleming, 20 W. 17th St., on Nov. 5, 1977. The murder in dictments were filed on Sept. 5, but See Page 2, Column 4
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Anderson Daily Bulletin
Anderson, Indiana, US
Mon, Jun 11, 1979
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