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Jane Hoeftman
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Jane Hoeftman

United Press International · September 26, 1962

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Braddock hills mother, Mrs. jane Hoeftman, 32, sobs in Allegheny county detective bureau here 9/26. The Braddock hills mother gave herself up after drowning her two children in a bathtub of the family's colonial style home.

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