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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Bedigan

A Navy vet was stabbed more than 70 times nearly four decades ago. Fresh evidence just led cops to his killer

Naval officer Billy Wayne Hearon, who was stabbed to death in 1985 - (WBIR)

Investigators in Tennessee say that new evidence has led to an arrest in an unsolved murder case over four decades old, in which a young navy veteran was stabbed more than 70 times.

The Maryville Police department announced on Wednesday that Roger Dale Oody, 62, had been indicted for first degree murder in connection with the death of Billy Wayne Hearon in 1985.

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