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From: "Vera Reeves" <>
Subject: Newspapers - Looking Back - Durant
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:43:05 -0500
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Back in 1943 there were at least 4 very long articles and a short 1 or 2
about this man's death if anyone wants them off list I'll send. Vera

> CALICO ROCK PROGRESS - APRIL 25, 1974
> LOOKING BACK COLUMN, Calico Rock Progress - April 9, 1943
>
> Back Yard Grave Yields Body of Charles Durant - Disappearance of Man
> Explained by Startling Discovery Made Sunday, Widow Held, Daughter Sought.
> A gruesome discovery, the finding of a human body buried in a shallow
> grave in the back yard of a farm home just North of Calico Rock, Sunday
> morning, challenges the wits of officers and presents a mystery that
> promises to equal the most mystifying of detective thrillers.
> The investigation which followed the disinterring of the body resulted
> in a coroner's jury report that the body was that of Charles W. Durant,
> about 46, World War veteran, who formerly occupied the farm home, and that
> he met death by violence. Durant was last seen the early part of last
> December.


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