Tough-Talking Hitchhikers Boast Of Killing Motorist
In Savannah Georgia two hitchhikers Roy Chatterton and Woodrow Whitman boasted of a spree across five states including armed robberies and a death in Kentucky West Virginia and North Carolina They claimed they killed Billy Copeland during a 1965 robbery in a rural shack Copeland a Lafayette Georgia father of four died from head injuries after being bound bludgeoned and left to die Authorities arrested the pair in Guyton near Savannah after a camera captured their robbery of a woman of 15 dollars and tracing the murder back to an abandoned shack near Rome Floyd County detectives described the pair as fearless and calm during questioning and identified their victim as the Barwick Mills executive.
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Savannah
UPI
Pate
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
West
Woodrow Whitman
Billy A. Copeland
Barwick ‘Mills
Kim
L Ie
Chatterton
Randolph
Strickland
Floyd County
Copeland
Rome
Lafayette
Berry College
Guyton
Teen killer shoots family after telephone request in Louisville
In Louisville, 19 year old William D Gibson, a former mental patient, confessed to killing Kenneth Kitterman 47 and wounding his wife Clara Lewise Kitterman 47 and daughter Clara Joan 18 in a home you entered after being told the family had no telephone. A dog perished in the spree. Gibson fled in a car, chased by a neighbor, crashed, and was found by police with the weapon reloaded. Gibson said he was being slandered in town.
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Louisville
UPI
William D. Gibson
Kenneth Kitterman
Clara Lewise Kitterman
Kitterman
Clara Joan
Gibson
Central
Ky.) State Mental Hospital
Nativity Scene at Salpointe Hit by Vandals
Salpointe High School reported to police that a Nativity display in front of the campus at 15451 Capper Street was vandalized last night. Treasurer Peter Crowley said two figures three to four feet tall were found in an alley behind the school.
Woman Critically Injured In Park Avenue Collision
Mrs Lamarr Qana 28 of 5246 S Missiondale Road was critically injured when a linen truck overturned at S Park Ave and Drexel Road. Donald Morrison 37 of 8518 E Beverly St sustained a minor hand injury. Mrs Dana suffered a fractured leg severe facial lacerations and possible concussion and was admitted to Pima County Hospital. No citations were issued pending investigation.
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Lamarr Qana
S. Missiondale Road
S. Park Ave
Drexel Road
Donald Earl Morrison
E. Beverly Sr
Haskell
Dana
Pima County Hospital
Powdered grapefruit juice heads to market testing
Gainesville Florida report notes U S Department of Agriculture researchers have created a powdered grapefruit juice that dissolves in cold water. Market testing is under way and the product is expected to require little to no refrigeration.
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Gainesville
Fla
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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