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On 12/10/10, Vicky Wall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I remember reading about the murder case years ago...but I was
> wondering....was he the collector shown in the 1969 National Geographic
> article about shells?  Thanks,
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> Vicky Wall
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Kabat" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 9:45:27 AM
> Subject: [CONCH-L] John E. du Pont
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> John du Pont died yesterday, in prison.
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> This story, with a photo, was published on page A-25 of today's New York
> Times.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/sports/olympics/10dupont.html?_r=1&hpw
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> Decemb er 9, 2010
> John E. du Pont, Heir Who Killed an Olympian, Dies at 72
> By JERÉ LONGMAN
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> John E. du Pont, an heir to the du Pont chemical fortune whose benevolent
> support of Olympic athletes deteriorated into delusion and ended in the
> shooting death of a champion wrestler, died Thursday in a western
> Pennsylvania prison. He was 72. . . .
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