Frank Wetzel
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Frank Wetzel Killed Two Highway Patrolmen 53 years ago.
Trooper J. L. Reese was killed in Richmond County.
Trooper James Brown was killed near Sanford.
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Having read the newspaper acounts of the event and even if only some of these facts are true, I believe there is reasonable doubt that he is even guilty. The eyewitness description of Wetzel was terribly flawed. Keeping a 89 year old man, with Alzheimers, in prison is cruel and unusual punishment, in my opinion.
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I don't remember these murders since my family had moved from Hamlet four years before they happened. But I do remember another shooting that happened in the early 1950s, probably around 1951 or 1952. That was the day city policeman Rex Howell was shot point-blank in the mouth by a fugitive from up north — N.Y., if my memory serves me — during a traffic stop. Does anyone else remember? And if you do, what was the outcome of the manhunt that ensued? (About twenty years ago one of my old uncles told me that the shooter, James Diggs, had been caught soon after and mysteriously disappeared into the murky waters of Gum Swamp, (wherever that is).
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