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Charged with "murder by candlelight"
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Charged with "murder by candlelight"

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · March 14, 1950

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Robert E. Bednasek, 24-year-old University of Iowa psychology student, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is shown in an Iowa City courtroom today where he went on trial for the "murder by candlelight" of his co-ed sweetheart, the late Margaret (Gee Gee) Jackson, 20. The co-ed's body was found last December in a bedroom at "Empty Arms," rooming house for men students of the university. She had been choked to death. The selection of jurors got underway today.

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