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struggle4progress

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Sun Jul 10, 2016, 01:39 PM Jul 2016

How a small-time crook became a ruthless killer

By Larry Getlen
July 10, 2016 | 1:02pm

In late 2007, Michael Brown — who lived with his wife, Nan, and their 17-year-old son, Watson — entertained a guest named Bill, who was negotiating the purchase of their house in Panama.

... Bill was a stickler for a good deal. Instead of haggling over the price, he shot the family dead and took possession of the home and all its belongings ...

It was at the Body Shop that Holbert began an affair with an employee named Laura Michelle Reese, whom he set up in an apartment. Holbert’s wife soon discovered this and filed for divorce.

Holbert and Reese moved on, with Holbert opening a white-supremacist book store in Forest City, NC, called Southern National Patriots. He sold “stickers, bandanas and swastikas” and stood on the street with a megaphone ...


http://nypost.com/2016/07/10/how-a-small-time-crook-became-a-ruthless-killer-with-a-passion-for-real-estate/

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How a small-time crook became a ruthless killer (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2016 OP
What a guy. WhiteTara Jul 2016 #1
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