Nation IN BRIEF : WEST VIRGINIA : 7 Charged in Deaths of Hitchhikers in ’80
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Murder charges have been filed against seven men in the 1980 slayings of two hitchhikers en route to a counterculture gathering. Pocahontas County Prosecutor Walt Weiford declined to discuss possible motive in the fatal shootings of Nancy Santomero, 19, of Huntington, N.Y., and Vicki Durian, 26, of Wellman, Iowa. Their bodies were found June 25, 1980, in a field in southeastern West Virginia. They had been hitchhiking from Arizona and planned to stop in West Virginia for a gathering of the Rainbow Family, a back-to-nature group.
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