New Murder Counts for Racist Who Killed
A white supremacist and convicted murderer on death row in Missouri was indicted on fresh charges of murdering two black teenagers in 1980. The two were killed June 8, 1980, by a gunman firing from a railroad trestle. A Hamilton County grand jury, reopening the 17-year-old case based on new evidence, returned indictments against Joseph Paul Franklin on two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Dante Brown, 13, and Darrell Lane, 14. The boys were shot while walking to a convenience store in Cincinnati. He is awaiting execution in Missouri for the slaying of a man outside a Clayton, Mo., synagogue.
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