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Being more fearless than it is now? all of our institutions are working. and when the people don t like what they see they push back. on tuesday in virginia women who didn t like what they were seeing stood online in the rain for hours. they had dynamism behind them. they had deep motivation. they pushed back. we will see how all of this goes, but there s a lot of movement going on. we re not stuck. it may seem like a big merck. i think it is a big merck, but mercks have a way of disappearing in the end. resist has turned into running and voting. bob costa, good morning. harold ford. how are democrats interpreting obviously there s got to be some glee and joy, but what are the lessons you re hearing from democrats talk about that they re going to take from this victory in ....
Was a body placed in this closet. he told me that my mother, they found her in a wardrobe with a telephone cord tied around her neck and strangled. alma s jewelry and cliff s handguns were apparently stolen during the attack. investigators found two foreign fingerprints inside the home, one at the back door, the other on a sewing tray in the living room. in a search for suspects, a neighbor told police that he saw two men lurking around the mercks home just a few days earlier. he kept an eye on them until he finally lost visual contact with them because of trees obstructing his view. and that was the last he saw of them. the mercks had no known enemies, and no one else in the neighborhood saw or heard anything unusual around the time of the murders. investigators hoped that either ....
Officials post pictures of their most-wanted criminals on the town s website, but they needed every trick they could think of to solve the case of clifford and alma merck, a retired couple who lived on the city s south side. they loved to sit out on the front porch and they had big trees out in the front and it was shady in the summertime. one saturday morning, the mercks son, robert, stopped by his parents home for a visit. he immediately noticed something was wrong. he found a door open at the back of the house and entered and immediately detected a foul odor. i backed out of the house and told my wife, i said, something is wrong here. go across the street and call the sheriff s department. jim christopherson was one of the first to arrive at the scene. the entire residence was ransacked, everything turned upside down, chairs turned upside down. ....
Was no forensic evidence linking him to the crime scene. gerald cowan was later convicted of manslaughter for killing his father-in-law. he served only two years in prison for that crime before he was released on parole. prosecutors believe robert cowan was one of the men seen near the mercks home by the neighbor. based on the forensic evidence, prosecutors say robert cowan and an accomplice broke into the mercks home through the back door. cliff merck probably went for his gun to defend himself and robert cowan grabbed the pistol and turned it on cliff. [ shots ] the men bound his wife, alma, locked her in the closet and left her to die. ....