Inside a dimly lit dive bar in the small Florida city of Lake Butler, a detective watched as James Curtis Clanton ordered bottles of beer and poured them, one by one, into a mug to sip. He watched as Clanton ...

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For the past 30 years, the evidence found at the scenes of the murders of Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg was mostly confined to a blue blanket wrapped around Cook’s body, an abandoned bronze 1977 Ford Club Wagon and, ...

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State police continue to investigate a murder that happened during a robbery nearly six decades ago in central New York. Sixty-three-year-old Ernest Chaney was killed in 1958 while working as a gas station attendant in the Town on Eaton. An ...

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Monroe County Court Judge Vincent A. Dinolfo on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging Nat Lee Jones, 57, with two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the 1980 slaying of 74-year-old Mary Hull. Hull’s murder had been investigated by the ...

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A bail hearing for a 78-year-old man recently acquitted of killing a blind upstate New York homemaker in 1972 has been postponed for three weeks. Willie James Kimble remains locked up on a federal charge that he failed ...

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The trial is wrapping up in the case of a 78-year-old man charged with bludgeoning to death a blind Rochester homemaker in her bed in 1972. If Willie James Kimble is convicted, it would be one of the nation’s oldest cold-case murders ...

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Testimony is scheduled to begin in the murder trial of a 78-year-old man charged with fatally bludgeoning a blind Rochester woman in her bed nearly 40 years ago. Willie James Kimble's trial is set to begin Monday in a Rochester court.

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Tommie Cray was 9 years old in 1947 when his father, a single parent with three sons, brought home a new companion who was raising three boys of her own. Annie Mae had a sweet Southern drawl and an easy laugh, and an emotional bond took hold right away.

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