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Friday 29 September 2017
Police: Girlfriend’s dad among 2 charged in fatal beating

By KEN MILLER, Associated just outside of Tulsa’s city thrown into the back of a someone to death, there’s Peal is the father of Pi-
Press limits and about 3 miles (5 pickup truck outside the no other way to describe etrzak’s girlfriend, who told
One of two men who kilometers) from his and his victim’s home in north Tulsa. it.” police that Pietrzak had
have been charged in the girlfriend’s home. An anon- Walker did not reply to a Dearld Peal, 46, and Tracy beaten her and asked up
beating death of a hog- ymous caller told police on phone message seeking Price, 40, were arrested to three men to retaliate,
tied Oklahoma man is the Tuesday that a man known further details, but Officer Wednesday on kidnapping MacKenzie said.
father of the victim’s girl- only as Anthony had been Jeanne MacKenzie told charges, and first-degree “She got these ... individu-
friend, who told detectives beaten to death and dis- The Associated Press that murder charges were add- als to beat up her boy-
she asked them to beat up membered. Pietrzak wasn’t dismem- ed against each man after friend because she alleged
her boyfriend because he Sgt. Dave Walker, the head bered, but that he was the body was found. he was beating on her,”
had been abusing her, po- of the department’s homi- hogtied when they found Jail records show each MacKenzie said.
lice said Thursday. cide division, said in a news his body, with his hands man is in custody and do Police haven’t released
The body of Anthony Pi- release that a witness told and feet tied together. not list an attorney for ei- the name of Pietrzak’s girl-
etrzak, 18, was found at detectives of seeing a man “It’s very horrific,” MacK- ther of them. They are due friend, who hasn’t been
around 2 a.m. Thursday being beaten, hogtied and enzie said. “Just beating in court next Wednesday. charged. q
Prosecutors: Man bought cocaine after killing teacher wife

CHELSEA, Mass. (AP) — A gators Andrew MacCor-
man accused of strangling mack spent $400 to $500 a
and stabbing his elemen- week on drugs, the Boston
tary school teacher wife Herald reported. MacCor-
inside their home cleaned mack’s wife threatened to
the murder scene with consult a divorce lawyer if
bleach and then went to he didn’t “shape up,” pros-
buy cocaine with the cou- ecutors said.
ple’s 1-year-old daughter “I hate you so much you’ve
in tow, prosecutors said. ruined (our daughter’s) life
Andrew MacCormack, because she won’t have
29, pleaded not guilty to her parents together.,”
murder at his arraignment Vanessa MacCormack
Wednesday in Chelsea Dis- wrote in a text message
trict Court in the death of on Aug. 31, according to
30-year-old Vanessa Mac- court documents. “I’ll talk
Cormack, a second-grade to (agent) tomorrow about
teacher at Connery Ele- listing the house and I’ll
mentary School in Lynn. He look into divorce lawyers.”
cried as he was ordered “Ur crazy,” Andrew Mac-
held without bail. Cormack replied, accord-
She was found dead Satur- ing to the documents. “I’m
day in their Revere home. not signing anything to sell
She was strangled and the house or get divorced.”
had stab wounds on her In this Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2017 photo, Andrew MacCormack cries as he is arraigned in Chelsea Authorities believe the cou-
neck and a trash bag over District Court in Chelsea, Mass., for the murder of his wife, Vanessa MacCormack. His defense at- ple’s toddler daughter was
her head, prosecutors said. torney, John C. Hayes is at right. Prosecutors said he strangled and stabbed his elementary school at home at the time of the
teacher wife inside their home, cleaned the murder scene with bleach and then went to buy co-
Some of her teeth had also caine with the couple’s 1-year-old daughter in tow. killing. They allege Mac-
been knocked out, ac- (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP) Cormack took the girl with
cording to a police report. him when he then went to
“The place smelled of According to court re- on the kitchen counter was Prosecutors said the couple buy $100 worth of cocaine,
bleach,” Suffolk Assistant cords, bleach was poured missing a large knife from was having financial prob- according to the Boston
District Attorney Ian Polum- on Vanessa MacCor- the set, and there was no lems and Vanessa Mac- Herald.Defense attorney
baum said during the ar- mack’s body and was used sign of a forced entry into Cormack had confronted John Hayes acknowledges
raignment. “The bedroom to clean the bathroom and the home, authorities said. her husband about his drug the couple was struggling
had been cleaned, but the wipe down a TV, accord- Andrew MacCormack, a use before her death. but said they were “hap-
efforts had not removed all ing to the Boston Globe. drywall installer, was arrest- Court papers say a co- pily married” and had a
of the blood in the room.” A butcher block located ed Tuesday. caine dealer told investi- future together. q
Indiana police probe possible suspect in 2 teens’ killings

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indi- to determine if he could be which is about 50 miles (80 there,” Riley said Thursday. that definitively connects
ana investigators are look- a suspect in the killings of kilometers) south of Denver. In a news release, the State this person to our investiga-
ing into whether a man 14-year-old Liberty German Riley said the first question Police cautioned that it tion,” the statement said.
arrested in Colorado for al- and 13-year-old Abigail Wil- is whether Nations was in has received thousands of Nations is jailed in Teller
legedly threatening people liams. Indiana on Feb. 13, when photos of people alleged County, Colorado, on a
along a hiking trail with a Nations, a convicted sex the teens vanished while to look like a composite FBI charge of possession of a
hatchet could be linked to offender who has lived in hiking near their hometown sketch released July 17 of a weapon by a previous of-
the February killing of two Indiana, was arrested Mon- of Delphi, about 60 miles man who is considered the fender. The charge isn’t
teenage hikers in Indiana. day in Woodland Park, Col- (100 kilometers) northwest main suspect, and that it in- related to the hatchet
Sgt. Kim Riley, of the Indi- orado, in connection with of Indianapolis. Their bodies vestigates all of those tips. threats, but threat-related
ana State Police, said the recent cases where peo- were found the next day. “We will give the same at- charges are pending, said
agency is speaking with ple were threatened with “We have to look at wheth- tention to the person ar- Jacqueline Kirby, a spokes-
Colorado authorities about a hatchet on a popular er he was even here at that rested in Colorado, but woman for the El Paso
31-year-old Daniel Nations hiking trail near Monument, time and then we’ll go from right now there is nothing County Sheriff’s Office.q