Youth slaying shocks family after sports pressure
Michael Swihart, an 8 year old college freshman, is charged with the murder of his father Donald 41 and mother Sue and brothers Brian 16 and Russell 9 after a confrontation linked to father’s emphasis on sports. He awaited a preliminary hearing and was bound over to the county grand jury. Autopsies showed head injuries. gasoline and fire used in the killings. Miami University student neighbors recall him as kind and loving.
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Brunswick
Ohio
Michael Swihart
Michael
Donald
Sue
Brian
Russell
Medina County
Grand Jury
Common Pleas Court
Medina
Carroll B. McClure
Plain Dealer
Cleveland
Swihart
The
Swiharl House
Roger Ingraham
Andrew Katson
Richard Wilson
Miami University
Oxford
Wis
Swihart Family Tragedy Cited in Memorial Portrait
Wilson recalled Michael Swihart as a calm, kind person after he accompanied Michael to Oxford on Sunday. Neighbors report an earlier incident when Michael refused to join football practice, leading to a disputed moment with his father during a game.
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Wilson
Oxford
Michael
Gary Belfort
Reffert
Swihart
Brian
Death sentence for sleeping killer in Houston trial
Billy Wayne White, 20, convicted of the Aug 23 1976 murder during a Robbery at Martha Spinks’s furniture store, was sentenced to death by a 12 member jury. He slept at the defense table as his attorney urged life instead of death.
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Houston Tap
Billy Wayne White
Martha Spinks
Leroy Peavy
State District Court
White
William Fatten
Peavy
Gerald Flatten
Flatten
Billy
Defense argues witness was on weed in Newton case
Oakland AP reports Huey Newton’s defense contends a self described prostitute who implicated him in a 1974 street murder was "loaded on weed" and nearsighted. Raphaelle Gary testified, while defense sought to block tapes and pressed her credibility amid claims of coercion and conflicting statements.
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Oakland
Huey Newton
Sheldon Otis
Raphaelle Gary
Newton
Miss Gary
Crystal Grey
Little Momma
Nevwton
Oakland Municipal Court
Kathleen Smith
Gary
Tom Orloff
Otis
Jessica Barnes
Miss Barnes
Orloff
Dhet
The
Panthers
Vten
New 1
Huey
Irvine trust founder dies in San Francisco
N Loy all McLaren 85 founder of the Irvine Foundation and longtime California business leader died Sunday after retirement. Funeral services were private. McLaren chaired the Irvine Co board and his 30 year career included roles as director at Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Pacific Telephone Ritchem Manufacturing and Air California.
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San Francisco
N. Loyall McLaren
California
Jeader
Irvine Foundation
Irvine Co
The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Pacific Telephone Co. Ritcem Manufacturing Co
Air California
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