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Suitcase killer goes on trial
A New Jersey woman accused of killing and dismembering her husband, whose remains were found in suitcases that washed up along a beach, was due to go on trial starting yesterday. Melanie McGuire is charged with first-degree murder in the April 2004 killing of her husband, William McGuire, 39. She pleaded not guilty and has remained free on US$2.1 million bail. Her trial was scheduled to open yesterday at Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick.
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Fugitive found in the snow
Wearing neither coat nor shoes, a fugitive suspected of killing and dismembering his wife was found hiding under a fallen tree in a snowbound park after a bitterly cold night on the run. Stephen Grant had been the subject of a manhunt since police in Michegan, discovered a torso in the couple's garage and other body parts they say are of his wife, Tara Lynn Grant, in and around the home. Grant, had maintained his innocence in his wife's disappearance last month but went missing before police searched the home on Friday and Saturday. "I don't think he probably could have made it much longer in those kind of conditions," Emmet County Sheriff Pete Wallin said.
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