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Post by sclcookie on Jun 5, 2006 0:20:01 GMT -5
Man pleads guilty to triple murder
A Chattanooga man avoided the death penalty when he pleaded guilty to killing his wife, infant son and stepdaughter.
Tony Pope pleaded guilty yesterday to beating and strangling his wife Andrea, her 13-year-old daughter from a previous marriage and their infant son on May 2nd, 2005.
Police say Pope confessed to murdering the three because his wife was preparing to divorce him.
Prosecutors arranged the plea deal in exchange for life sentences without the possibility of parole on each 1st-degree murder count.
Pope was on parole after serving 5 years of a 15-year sentence for killing a girlfriend in 1995.
(source: Associated Press)
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