Fourth Suspect in Beating Death of Amy Biehl Appears in Court
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A fourth suspect accused in the death of American exchange student Amy Biehl appeared in court briefly Monday.
Ntobeko Ambrose Peni, 19, was arrested last month and has pleaded innocent in the 1993 murder. Three other young men were convicted last year.
During his appearance Monday, a judge postponed Peni’s trial until April 27.
Biehl, a 26-year-old Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, was in South Africa researching women’s rights and helping to educate voters before the country’s first all-race elections. She was bludgeoned and stabbed to death by a mob chanting anti-white slogans when she drove black friends home to a township near Cape Town on Aug. 25, 1993.
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