Word: schartner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dell saga began 14 years ago in a muddy field across the street from the County Line, a Virginia Beach honky-tonk. There the police found the lifeless body of Helen Schartner, 44, a secretary. Her head had been smashed by blows from a handgun, and she had been strangled until her neck snapped...
...Dell, a machinist with an ugly rap sheet, was arrested and charged with rape and capital murder. He had been seen at the County Line the evening Schartner was killed, though not with her. Later he'd walked into a convenience store with blood on his face, hands and clothes--the result, he said, of a fight at another bar. There were no witnesses to the killing. But circumstantial evidence--including tire tracks consistent with those from O'Dell's car and tests of the blood on his clothing--seemed to link him to the crime...
...Knox is eager to believe the best about her brother: that a 1975 kidnapping conviction was probably a setup, that his fatal knifing of a fellow inmate was self-defense. But to less loving eyes, O'Dell seems like a man who might well have been capable of killing Schartner. All the more reason, says Knox, that the state should hand over the evidence. "Let's test it and find...
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