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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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6. It might simply have been lack of evidence.

Reply to Burma Jones (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 27, 2014, 03:29 PM

Aug 2014

They didn't find the gun, or witnesses according to what I heard. Although, of course, whether or not evidence is found sometimes depends on how hard people are looking for it, or how prosecutors are willing to present it.

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