Sex offender charged in death
From Times Wire Reports
A convicted sex offender was charged in Jefferson with killing a 71-year-old real estate agent whose body was found near a smoldering mattress in a home she had been showing him.
The criminal complaint alleges that James A. Hole, 34, choked Ann B. Nelson with her scarf and beat her with a fireplace poker after she said something he didn’t like, then set the house on fire.
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