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Feb 2021
47m 32s

Killer Couples Pt. 1: Ray and Faye Copel...

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They say that “love is a many-splendored thing.” But for Ray and Faye Copeland, it was a thing of violence. The couple’s murderous crimes made them two of the oldest people ever sentenced to death in the United States.

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