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Earlier this month prosecutors in Greenbelt, Maryland, finally charged 55-year-old Josephine Gray with the murders of her first and second husbands, in 1974 and 1990. Law-enforcement officials have long been stymied by witnesses who disappeared or recanted, claiming that Gray would use voodoo on them. One relative of Gray’s second husband said that Gray could control the man as long as he was eating her cooking but that he returned to “his old self” when he ate elsewhere. Other relatives said a spell she once cast on the first victim caused him to scratch his face to shreds.
Thailand’s minister of tourism said a 27-hole golf course would be built at the juncture of his country, Laos, and Cambodia, with nine holes in each nation, though the territory was heavily mined by the Khmer Rouge; the minister believes golfers will fly in from all over the world for the challenge.
Last August the corrections department for the District of Columbia admitted that a deaf-mute man suffering from serious mental illness was detained for 669 days on a misdemeanor charge (ultimately dropped) because it had lost his file. Jail records show that the man never had visitors, not even the required public defender. The department director said it was “kind of unbelievable to me.”
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