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🌱 How Porterdale ended up at the center of a 2016 murder case

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  • How Porterdale ended up at the center of a 2016 murder case

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📰 News we're reading

• Trial continues for co-defendant charged in cover-up of Morgan Bauer's death (atlantanewsfirst.com) — Porterdale residents are seeing their town at the center of a long-running murder case, as testimony continues in the trial of a woman accused of helping cover up Morgan Bauer's death and disposal of her remains. Investigators say Bauer's bones were found in Porterdale in 2023, and a former Porterdale police lieutenant has now testified about the defendant's alleged fear of the convicted killer.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells. (Thank you Jean D. for sending it in!)
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