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- ↑ "Former Drummer Committed After Hacking Mother to Pieces With Meat Cleaver". FOXNews. January 27, 2007. Archived from the original on 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
- ↑ "Man guilty of stabbing mother to death". 7 December 2006.
- ↑ "Man who killed mother found insane". 8 December 2006.
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