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TexasTowelie

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Sun Aug 28, 2016, 04:11 AM Aug 2016

Man charged in slaying of 2 nuns [View all]

A Kosciusko man has been charged with two counts of capital murder in the deaths of two nuns in Holmes County.

Authorities said late Friday night that Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, a felon, was developed as a suspect after "an exhaustive interview Friday evening."

Sanders is charged in the slayings of Sister Paula Merrill, a nurse practitioner with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky, and Sister Margaret Held, a nurse practitioner with the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee. Both were 68. They were found dead Thursday in their home on Castalian Springs Road in Durant, a town of roughly 2,600.

The two women were stabbed, coroner Dexter Howard said.

Read more: http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2016/08/27/man-charged-capital-murder-nun-slayings/89467046/

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