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Girl's slayer found dead
International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · November 10, 1944
District attorney Cregg announced late today that the killer of Marie LaCombe, 14, high school girl, had been found dead, a suicide from gas poisoning, in a Salem rooming house less than a mile from the scene of the crime. Cregg identified the killer as Wilfred J. Marquis (closeup, above), formerly of Salem. Thus, Frank Szymanowicz, a 26-year-old hitch-hiker who had earlier confessed to the killing and then retracted the confession, was cleared
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