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Oct 20
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Who Murdered Mary Meyer? - 646

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October 12th, 1964. Washington, D.C. Mary Meyer was murdered while taking a walk along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath. The police quickly arrested a man named Ray Crump who was near the crime scene. But Crump's arrest and trial didn't answer the many questions surrounding Mary's murder. In the years that followed there were suggestions that she was ki ... Show More
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