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- ↑ "John Charles Upton Jr., filmmaker who rescued Romanian orphans, found dead outside his Southern California home". ABC News. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
- ↑ Man sentenced for killing filmmaker, MARCH 18, 2015, fox5sandiego.com
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